Welcome
What are you trying to do?
Data I already have in sociology, development and social work.
Your path
Create a study to hold it
A study is the container. You are not obliged to collect anything through ZStat.
Import the file
CSV for now, on the Data page. Leading zeros survive, and a column that is mostly numeric with a few words stays text rather than becoming numbers with holes in it.
Find out what you should be running
The guide for your field names the question in your own words and the procedure that answers it.
Analyse
Every result is stored with the digest of the data behind it, so you can prove later which version produced which figure.
What people in your field ask
Sample honestly - describe who you reached and who you missed - compare or model - state what the design cannot support.
- Who did I actually reach?descriptives
- Do the groups differ?chi square independence
- What predicts the outcome?ols regression
- Are people within a community more alike?multilevel mixed
- Are there natural groupings in the data?multiple correspondence
Watch for: Calling a convenience sample random because a spreadsheet shuffled it.
See what your field uses The full guide for sociology, development and social work Start again