Quantitative data analysis using electoral data 3500-ADI-ZWPOL-SCC

The workshop is aimed as a preparation to social data analysis on intermediary level. They are hold in data laboratory using SPSS with different social data. The workshop is devoted to analysis electoral data – social surveys, public opinion polls and official data. The workshop prepares to independent data analysis using advanced methods. This combines important analytical questions with corresponding analytical skills. The analyzed problems: 1) formation of public opinion during campaign (description of social situation using public opinion polls), 2) basic determinants of political participation and preferences (bivariate analysis), 3) analysis of official electoral data (exploratory analysis), 4) changes in opinion (panel data), 5) special analysis: missing data and nonvoting, 6) typological analysis (cluster analysis and factor analysis), 7) explanatory models Economic voting, spatial model, collective voting), 8) regression analysis linear and logistic (selection of explanatory variables), 9) preparation for reporting the results: formal structure, presentation of the results and their explanation in the way oriented toward a reader.