Research Manuscript: Introduction
Research Manuscript: Introduction
This week, begin considering what will be the focus of your research manuscript. In addition, begin exploring the possible data sets Students can use any available anonymous secondary data set. Students are not allowed to collect data as this will need IRB approval beforehand.
Example of secondary data sets:
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/
The data sets available through the (SAMHDA); http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/SAMHDA/download
You may be able to perform online data analysis from many data sets on the ICPSR Website without downloading files:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/SAMHDA/help/index.html
- CDC Data Sets:
Try here for a large listing: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/ftp_data.htm
Or: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/data_tools.htm
Examples:
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
SMART: BRFSS City and County Data
Selected Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area Risk Trends
Annual Survey Data
http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/smart/technical_infodata.htm
National Survey of Family Growth
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/nsfg_2006_2010_puf.htm
- The data set located in Course Information. Though the course info indicated SPSS to open the data set,
- Epi-info is free to download from the CDC and may have some available data sets. http://wwwn.cdc.gov/epiinfo/
- SPSS Sample Data Sets that came with the software (If you have SPSS, this could be one of many options to choose from)
- Possibly: http://www.phf.org/Pages/default.aspxor http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html#National%20Public%20Health%20Data%20Sets
See section: “Sources of Data”. “National Public Health Data Sets”. “State and Local Public Health Data Sets”.
You are also free to use any statistical software that you are familiar with. Epi Info is a free statistical software which is available for download from CDC at http://wwwn.cdc.gov/epiinfo/
One of these data sets will be used to complete the manuscript assignment. You are not required to submit any assignment this week. Each application throughout this course is a building block towards the completed manuscript.
Next week, you will submit the Introduction to your study which will include the following:
- Description of the issue
- Purpose of the study
- Significance of the study
- Provide explanation of secondary data set to be used and provide URL link or other means so instructor can view the data set
