Exam 12: How Can Researchers Learn From Information Collected by Others Existing Data

Researchers using existing data must ______________.

Discuss the issue of undercount and/or the lack of data involving official statistics providing examples from the text.

Benegal found that people with the most racial resentment were the least likely to be believe climate change science.

A challenge to using large surveys is that researchers are confined to the ways the original researchers measured and coded the data.

Which of the following is not an advantage of using official statistics in secondary analysis?

In your own words, explain the terms digital life, digital trace data, and digitalized life data. Provide an example of each.

Using the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys, Goosby and team found that _____________ youth were better able to cope with their parents' expressions of stress than other Black ethnic groups.

What are the benefits and limitations that researchers need to consider when using big data for secondary analysis?

Researchers doing secondary analysis typically based their research questions on the original intent and topics those who collected the data.

Using GSS data, Glick and Golden (2010) found that the proportion of African Americans who felt homosexuality was always wrong had decreased after the 1970s.

When the definitions of how a measure is counted over time, ___________is jeopardized.

In 2015, the Washington Post recorded ___________ officer-involved killings as what the FBI reported.

Yackee's research focused on which government agency?

Liévanos used 2000 U.S. Census and other data to study the unequal impact of health risks due to air toxicity. He found that ____________________.

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is housed at the University of Texas.

The Minnesota Research Data Center provides public access data, whereas IPUMS requires a proposal.

Which is not a type of government documents used by Maril in his research on the negotiations done around the border wall?

What data collection technique do NORC researchers use when gathering information for the GSS?

Stanton, Rozas, and Asencio found that people who were not citizens were more likely to be out than naturalized citizens using SJS data.

Goosby and team found, using CPES data, that African American children and Black Caribbean youth had strong self-esteem and similar abilities to cope with parental stress.