An Introduction to Secondary Data Analysis with IBM SPSS Statistics by MacInnes John

Author:MacInnes, John [MacInnes, John]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2016-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

6.7 Responsible citizenship

Purdham and Tranmer (2014) use data from Round 3 of the ESS (2006) to examine ‘responsible citizenship’ by looking at how far people expect help in return for offering help of their own in different circumstances. We’ll replicate their analyses, using their description of their methods, and attempt to obtain the same results that they publish in their article.

The first question we face is to locate the data the authors used. They specify that they used data from the 23 countries in ESS3. However, when you go the ESS website you should find that this wave of the survey was fielded in 25 countries. A look at Table 6 in the article (Purdham and Tranmer, 2014: 72) reveals that the discrepancy is accounted for by Latvia and Romania, and if you consult the data documentation you will find that design weights are still not available for these two countries, so that they have not been included in the integrated data file. Since the analysis in the article uses weights, it is clear why these countries have not been included. You’ll also see that the latest edition of the data file that you can download is edition 3.5 released in November 2014. This will be a later version than that used by the authors, who submitted their article in 2013. However, if you consult the version notes for the various editions in the data documentation, it looks as if there have been no major corrections or changes since the release of the edition that would have been available to the journal authors.

ESS 2006. N = 39, 683; chi-square: 666 (p < 0.000).

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