Everything about Social Statistics totally explained
Social statistics is the use of
statistical measurement systems to study
human behavior in a social environment. This can be accomplished through
polling a particular group of people, evaluating a particular subset of data obtained about a group of people, or by observation and statistical analysis of a set of data that relates to people and their behaviors.
Often, social scientists are employed in the
evaluation of the quality of
services of a particular group or organization, in analyzing behaviors of groups of people in their environment and special situations, or even in determining the wants or needs of people through statistical
sampling.
Statistics in the Social Sciences
Statistics and statistical analyses have become a key feature of contemporary social science. Statistics is and has been perhaps most important in
economics and
psychology that have incorporated and relied primarily on statistical analyses as a method of argument for decades.
Recently, the use of advanced statistical analyses have become popular among the "soft" social sciences such as
political science,
sociology and
anthropology. There is, however, currently a heated debate regarding the questionable uses and value of statistical methods in social science, especially in political science, with many important statisticians questioning the often broad policy conclusions of political scientists who often misrepresent or misunderstand the limited interpretive power that non-robust statistical methods such as simple and multiple
linear regression allow. Indeed, an important mantra that social scientists cite, but often forget, is that "
correlation doesn't imply
causation."
The use of statistics has become so widespread in the social sciences that many top universities such as
Harvard, have developed institutes focusing on "quantitative social science." Harvard's
Institute for Quantitative Social Science
focuses mainly on fields like
political science that are only now beginning to incorporate advanced causal statistical models that
Bayesian methods provide.
Statistical Methods in Social Sciences
A number of methods, techniques and concepts have been developed or extensively used in various branches of quantitative social sciences. Those include, in no particular order:
Social Science Statistics Centers
Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences, University of Washington
Odum Institute for Research in Social Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Social Statistics at University of Southamption, UK
Social Science Statistics Center, University of Missouri, Columbia (see also their links section)
Social Statistics Research Group, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Statistical Databases for Social Science
Cross Disciplinary
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
UN Statistics Division- Demographic and Social Statistics
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
Labor Statistics
US Bureau of Labor Statistics
International Labour Organisation- LABORSTA
Labor Research Association- Statistics for Labor Economics
Labor and Worklife Program- Labor Stats at Harvard Law School
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