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Beth Chance; Andrew Kerr; Jett Palmer – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2024
While many instructors are aware of the "Literary Digest" 1936 poll as an example of biased sampling methods, this article details potential further explorations for the "Digest's" 1924-1936 quadrennial U.S. presidential election polls. Potential activities range from lessons in data acquisition, cleaning, and validation, to…
Descriptors: Publications, Public Opinion, Surveys, Bias
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Ingels, Steven J.; Pratt, Daniel J.; Rogers, James E.; Siegel, Peter H.; Stutts, Ellen S. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2005
This report provides guidance and documentation for users of the public release for the combined base-year and first follow-up data of the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002). It provides extensive documentation of the content of the data files and how to access and manipulate them. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction to ELS:2002. It…
Descriptors: Guides, Data Processing, Data Collection, Longitudinal Studies