Welcome
What are you trying to do?
A study for my organisation in sociology, development and social work.
Your path
Create the study and set the discipline
The discipline decides what every later page shows you.
Decide whether people are involved
If your data is about machines, facilities or finances rather than people, declare no human subjects and the data protection conditions do not apply. The declaration is checked.
Collect or import
Collect through ZStat with consent and withdrawal, or bring a CSV, Excel or SPSS file you already have.
Analyse and compare
Between sites, periods, groups or programmes - with the effect size, because significance alone does not tell a manager whether it matters.
Produce the assurance pack
Generated from your own installation, for a funder or a data protection officer.
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.
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