3.4.6.5. Measurement in specialist areas
Activity 1: Appraisal of
micro data sets
Conduct an appraisal of two surveys from the UK Data Service cross-national surveys.
3.8.2. Setting the context
Activity
2: Attitudes to whether healthy people should use medicines to improve their sex life - by
country
Use the same steps outlined in worked Example 7 to
produce
a table showing response to the question "Do you approve if healthy people use medicines to
improve their sex life..." To find this data look in ESS Round 2, variable
description > Health and Care Seeking > Approve if healthy people use medicines to improve
sex
life. You will need to register on line for ESS Data to complete this task.
Activity
3: Produce graphs showing - attitudes to citizens cheating on their taxes by country, weighted
and
unweighted
Produce graphs showing the weighted and unweighted distributions of the proportions who agree or
strongly agree with the statement "Citizens should not cheat on their taxes"
3.10 Further exploration
Activity 4:
further
exploration - victims of crime
Using the European Social Survey looking at the victims of crime and feeling safe walking in
neighbourhood.
Activity 5:
further exploration - attitude to migration
Using the European Social Survey looking at the victims of crime and feeling safe walking in
neighbourhood.
Activity
6: further exploration - victims of crime
confidence in different institutions - suggested area to explore using the World Values Survey
