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Qualitative data
Qualitative data can be categories in nominal and ordinal scale that
can not be measures in the form of numbers.
Quantitative data
Quantitative data can be measured in the form of numbers also
describes the interval and ration scale of variables.
Measurement
Levels of Measurement – the
relationship among the values that are
assigned to a variable and the
attributes of that variable.
Levels of Measurement
Nominal- naming
Ordinal- rank order (high to low but no
indication of how much higher or lower
one subject is to another)
Interval- equal intervals between values
Ratio- equal intervals AND an absolute
zero (i.e. a ruler)
Levels of Measurement
Levels of Measurement:
Identify
Age: under 30, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59
Gender: Male, Female
Level of Agreement: Strongly Agree,
Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly
Disagree
Percentage of the library budget spent
on staff salaries.
Methods of data collection
Direct interviews
Questionnaire
Sample survey
Registration
Statistical reports by researchers
Publications, internet, news papers, banks, stock exchange
Pakistan bureau of statistics
Public records
Journals, economists
Methods of data presentations
Line graphs/ historigram
Bar charts
Simple, multiple, component, percentage, pie
Stem and leaf plot, box plot
Histogram
Frequency curve, cumulative and DE
cumulative curve
Statistics
Descriptive Comparative
objectives/ research objectives/
questions: hypotheses
Making it Comprehesnible
Population and Population
Centers by State: 2000
How depict the data
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cenpop/
statecenters.txt
Graphs
Their purpose
Some types: Bar charts, pie charts, area
charts, line charts
http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/power/ch
9/piecharts/pie.htm
Journey to Work From Census
2000
http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-33.pdf
Examples
Alumni Satisfaction Library Services
Survey Assessment
Recode Clearinghouse
http://www.hollins.e
du/academics/library
/lsac.htm
Library Surveys &
Questionnaires
http://web.syr.edu/~jrya
n/infopro/survey.html
Performance Measures
http://equinox.dcu.ie/reports/pilist.h
tml