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Books that Use SDA for Exercises and Examples

Hands-on Sociology, 3rd ed., by William Feigelman and Yih-Jin Young. This book uses SDA -- both at this site and other sites -- to teach beginning sociology students data analysis.  "Hands-On Sociology" won the 2005 ICPSR Prize Competition: Best Instructional Module or Instructional Innovation in the Social Sciences and Social Science History.
Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, by Alan Agresti and Christine Franklin. This book uses SDA for various exercises/examples.
Introduction to Sociology, by Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier and Richard Appelbaum.  The online companion Web site for this book uses SDA for exercises in various chapters.

SDA User Contributions

(A collection of useful resources and tips offered by SDA users)

MAKEDDL.SPS - Convert an SPSS system or portable file to SDA components
MAKEDDL.SPS is an SPSS-Python script that converts an SPSS system file or portable file into the files required to set up the dataset in SDA -- namely, a DDL file and an ASCII data file. 
SDA Tutorial
Contributed by: University of Victoria and University of Toronto's Data Library Services. Includes basic instruction in data analysis.
Contact: Laine Ruus (laine.ruus@utoronto.ca)  
Analysis curriculum and tutorials -- The IDEA Project
Contact: Chip Reichardt (creichar@du.edu), Univ. of Denver.
How to paste SDA output into a Microsoft Word document (PDF file)
Contributed by: Paul Gronke (http://www.reed.edu/~gronkep), Reed College.

To contribute suggestions for other resources to list, please contact us at: sda@csm.berkeley.edu

Some Other Data Archives that Use SDA

ICPSR - University of Michigan

ICPSR Data Analysis System (DAS)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
(Select 'Analyze Data Online' or 'Produce Analytic Tables' for Quick Tables)
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
(Select 'Online Data Analysis')
National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging
(Select 'Data Analysis System')
International Archive of Education Data
(Select 'Data Analysis System')
SETUPS (Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science)
Features Voting Behavior: The 2004 Election, an instructional module based on the 2004 National Election Study (NES) data. The SETUPS site was awarded the American Political Science Association's 2006 Rowman & Littlefield Award for Innovative Teaching in Political Science. It was also named the Best Instructional Web Site for 2005-06 by the APSA's Information Technology and Politics section. 
Community and Social Capital is "an instructional module that teaches data analysis of social capital, as discussed in Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone... Concepts illustrated include replication, unit of analysis, level of measurement, analysis over time versus cross-sectional analysis, crosstabulation, creating an index, and correlation."  The exercises use SDA.

Other University-Based Archives

Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA), Princeton University
(Select 'data sets')
Scientific Research on the Internet, University of Maryland
(Go to 'Direct Links to the Data'; see also the tutorials for SDA and MCA under 'Research'.)
UCDATA's archive of California Polls  
(UCDATA is UC Berkeley's principal archive of social science and health data)
Survey Research Center Data Archive, UC Berkeley
Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1843, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Research Institutes

National Survey of America's Families, Urban Institute, Washington D.C.
(Access is free, but registration is required)
Brazil Census Data for 3 States - 1996, Brazilian Census Bureau test site
Brazilian Health Data - for methodology courses in Brazil