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Where and how to find the data and literature: Library and campus resources

Where and how to find the data and literature: Library and campus resources. Dean Rowan Jon Stiles N icole Boyle Su Li U. C. Berkeley 10/9/2014. Overview of quantitative empirical research (stepwise procedures). Literature Review. 1. Research Question 2. Hypothesis construction

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Where and how to find the data and literature: Library and campus resources

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  1. Where and how to find the data and literature: Library and campus resources Dean Rowan Jon Stiles Nicole Boyle Su Li U. C. Berkeley 10/9/2014

  2. Overview of quantitative empirical research (stepwise procedures) Literature Review 1. Research Question 2. Hypothesis construction 3. Research design: concepts quantification (variables) 4. Data collection/Data finding (data coding and cleaning) 5. Data analysis (model construction) 6. Results interpretation Data resources Copy Right. Su Li. Berkeley Law. 2014

  3. Literature review---Hypothesis construction & Research design where and how to find relevant literature: Dean Rowan • Secondary data resources—Data finding Su Li Dean Rowan Jon Stiles Nicole Boyle

  4. Secondary Data Resources I: Some public/restricted quantitative data resources General • The Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR): https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/ • The Roper Center Public Opinion Archive: http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/data/search_for_datasets.html • The Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL data archives http://www.socio.com/ssedl/ • Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS): http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu/ Copy Right. Su Li. Berkeley Law. 2014

  5. Secondary Datasets II: Census and National Surveys • The Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/ • Minnesota Population Center Integrated Public Use Microdata Series( IMPUS): http://www.ipums.org/

  6. Secondary Datasets III: Law and Legal Profession • American Bar Foundation After the J.D. (AJD )data http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/publications/AftertheJD/AJD_Data_Access.html • The U.S. Supreme Court Database http://supremecourtdatabase.org/ • TracFed: http://tracfed.syr.edu/ • Public Access to Court Election Records: https://www.pacer.gov/ • Lex Machina: IP law, https://lexmachina.com/

  7. Secondary Datasets IV: • Berkeley Law Statewide Database: http://statewidedatabase.org/index.html

  8. UC Berkeley resources: • D-lab: http://dlab.berkeley.edu/ California Census Research Data Center (public and restricted census data) • CSLS BELS data link http://www.law.berkeley.edu/4501.htm • Immigration topics data (Irene Bloemraad): http://www.popcenter.berkeley.edu/resources/migration_data_sets/intro.shtml • Berkeley Library Data lab: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/wikis/datalab/Main/HomePage

  9. Contact info • Dean Rowan: drowan@law.berkeley.edu • Jon Stiles: jons@berkeley.edu • Su Li: sli@berkeley.edu • Nichole Boyle: nicole@cain.berkeley.edu; Karin Mac Donald: karin@cain.berkeley.edu

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