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Conducting Empirical Analysis: Public Opinion in Action, (2010) by Rosalee A. Clawson and Zoe M. Oxley. The authors "show students how to conduct web-based data analysis using UC Berkeley’s Survey Documentation and Analysis ... to answer questions about party identification or attitude stability, and to measure racial prejudice and political knowledge. Exercises cover a range of data collection techniques, survey research, and statistical analyses, ramping up from multiple-choice and open-ended questions to mini-research projects."
Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, 2nd ed. (2009) by Alan Agresti and Christine Franklin. This book uses SDA for various exercises/examples.
Hands-on Sociology, 3rd ed. (2005), 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.

ICPSR's Online Learning Center (OLC)
The OLC "supports quantitative literacy in the social sciences by providing an effective and reliable means of bringing secondary data into the classroom." The OLC's 'Data-Driven Learning Guides' are powered by SDA.
SETUPS (Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science)
These are instructional modules at ICPSR on voting behavior in the 2004 and 2008 elections using the American National Election Study (ANES) surveys. 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. The examples and exercises use SDA.
Community and Social Capital is an instructional module at ICPSR 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.

Video Tutorials on Using SDA at ICPSR
Video tutorials produced by ICPSR and available for Windows Media Player, QuickTime and other formats.
Short SDA Tutorial on Frequencies/Crosstabulations
From the IPUMS Web site.
SDA Tutorial Contributed by Two Canadian Universities
Contributed by: University of Victoria and University of Toronto's Data Library Services. Includes basic instruction in data analysis. Contact: Lindsay Tedds (ltedds@uvic.ca)

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. Contributed by ICPSR.
Analysis curriculum and tutorials -- The IDEA Project
Contact: Chip Reichardt (creichar@du.edu), Univ. of Denver.

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

Analyze Data Online at ICPSR (Using SDA)
Use SDA to analyze hundreds of datasets in the ICPSR archive. From this page you can view a list of all ICPSR datasets available for SDA analysis -- or search for topics within this collection. Also, below is a listing of some of the ICPSR special archives that use SDA extensively.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
(Select 'Analyzing Data Online' or 'Quick Tables')
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
(Select 'Online Data Analysis')
National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging
(Select 'Survey Documentation and Analysis')
Resource Center for Minority Data
(Select 'Analyze Data Online with SDA')

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), University of Minnesota.
(IPUMS has a lot of census data -- from the US and other countries -- available for analysis in SDA.)
CHASS at the University of Toronto
(Over 700 datasets are currently available for analysis using SDA at CHASS.)
UCDATA's archive of California (Field) Polls
(UCDATA is UC Berkeley's principal archive of social science and health data)
Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA), Princeton University
(Select 'resources')
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'.)
Survey Research Center Data Archive, UC Berkeley
Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1843, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)
PPIC's Statewide Survey Interactive Tools are powered by SDA's Quick Tables software. Click on the "Create crosstabs" button.
Mexico Data Web Project, University of California at San Diego
Bilingual archive of datasets on Mexico.
Brazil Census Data for 3 States - 1996, Brazilian Census Bureau test site
Brazilian Health Data - for methodology courses in Brazil