The SSDAN project, funded by NSF and the US Department of Education FIPSE, is a network of resources--census datasets, class exercises, and computer conferencing--that enables college teachers in the social sciences to introduce "hands on" data analysis in substantive courses so that students can "get their feet wet" with quantitative reasoning before they take more specialized statistics and methods courses later in their curriculum. SSDAN seeks to make data analysis explorations an accessible, available, and desirable component of introductory social science courses.

The datasets draw from US census materials from 1950 through 2000. They are appropriate to use with topics such as race-ethnicity, immigration, gender studies, marriage, households and poverty, US income inequality, children, the elderly, and others. To make data analysis extremely "user friendly" to students (and teachers), we have chosen the widely-used Student CHIP software as the primary analysis program of the network. 

 Data Happy!

 Data Happy! Doing Sociology with Student CHIP, 4th edition, by Gregg Lee Carter. Allyn & Bacon, 2004

Series of computer exercises using real data to explore issues for the major subfields of Sociology. Uses more than a dozen data sources, including the GSS, U.S. Census data, FBI crime data, and cross-national demographic data. Disk includes Student CHIP and datasets for these exercises.

Analyzing Contemporary Social Issues

Analyzing Contemporary Social Issues (A Workbook with Student CHIP Software), 2nd edition, by Gregg Lee Carter. Allyn & Bacon, 2001.

Computer exercises on social problems, including inequality and poverty, race and ethnic relations, gender issues, aging, crime, deviance, and social control, the family and intimate relationships, health problems, and urban problems. Disk includes Student CHIP and 31 data sets developed for this workbook.

The American Mind

The American Mind, by Michael Kearl. Kearl, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212.

A workbook and disk for a social psychology course. Disk includes over 100 data sets on topics including beliefs, bonds, class, gender, needs, politics, race, religion, socialization, modernization, TV, and work.

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American Social Problems, by Allan Mazur. Marriage and the Family, by Allan Mazur. Social Research Methods, by Allan Mazur. Mazur, 246 Scottholm Terrace, Syracuse, NY 13224.

Workbook/disk combinations to accompany the Social Problems, Marriage and the Family, and Research Methods courses. Topics include drugs, crime, federal spending on social problems, prejudice, "perfect" children, the changing family, religious intermarriage, abortion, divorce, earning differences based on gender and ethnicity. Disks include the CHIP1 software and 21 data sets to accompany the exercises.