Tips and Guide for Data Users
Analyzing Data Files Online
The online analysis system allows you to run both simple and complex analyses, recode and compute new variables, subset variables or cases for downloading, and run Quick Tables with access to an Internet browser. No statistical software is required.
Online data analysis allows users to:
- Search for variables of interest in a dataset
- Review frequencies or summary statistics of key variables to determine what further analyses are appropriate
- Review frequencies or summary statistics for missing data
- Produce simple summary statistics for reports
- Create statistical tables from raw data
- Create a subset of cases or variables from a large collection to save time and storage space when downloading to a personal computer
- Browse the electronic codebook
The software powering the system, named Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA), was developed by the Computer-Assisted Survey Methods Program (CSM) at the University of California, Berkeley.
List of studies available for online analysis