Using Secondary Data in Educational and Social Research /

Smith, Emma, Dr.

Using Secondary Data in Educational and Social Research / Emma Smith. - Maidenhead ; New York, NY : Open University Press, c2008. - x, 249 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. - Conducting educational research .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-246) and index.

Secondary data analysis: an introduction -- Pitfalls of secondary data analysis -- Promises of secondary data analysis -- Doing secondary analysis -- Sure start and leisure habits: secondary analysis of aggregate data -- Traffic jams and gap years: secondary analysis of survey data -- From PISA to California: secondary analysis of international data -- Endpiece.

0335223575 (hbk.) 9780335223572 (hbk.) 0335223583 (pbk.) 9780335223589 (pbk.)


Social sciences--Research.
Education--Research.
Social sciences--Methodology.



370.7 / SMI