Analysis of Categorical Data

Major: Sociology
Code of subject: 7.054.01.O.002
Credits: 6.00
Department: Sociology and Social Work
Lecturer: Herus Olha Ihorivna, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
Semester: 1 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: Ability to conduct research at the appropriate level. Ability to design social research, develop and justify their methodology. Ability to prepare reporting documents and research papers based on the results of social research. Develop social research projects and justify their methodology. Be able to organize and conduct social research using valid and reliable methods. It is argued to present one's own opinion, to be critical and self-critical in discussions with opponents. Be able to analyze empirical data using modern methods. Present the results of research in written and oral forms in Ukrainian and foreign languages. Prepare reporting documents and research papers based on the results of social research in accordance with the established requirements. Solve ethical dilemmas in accordance with the norms of professional ethics of the sociologist and universal values. Be able to collect, systematize and summarize social information in professional activities. Monitor and evaluate social projects and programs according to existing criteria. Specialized conceptual knowledge, which includes modern scientific achievements in the field of professional activity or field of knowledge, and is the basis for original thinking and research. Specialized problem-solving skills required for research and / or innovation in order to develop new knowledge and procedures. Clear and unambiguous communication of own knowledge, conclusions and arguments to specialists and non-specialists, in particular, to students. Management of work or learning processes that are complex, unpredictable and require new strategic approaches. Responsibility for contributing to professional knowledge and practice and / or evaluating the performance of teams and teams.
Required prior and related subjects: • Methodology of Discourse Analysis; • Modern Ukrainian Society as a Society of Risk; • Analytical Sociology in Management Processes; • Social Communications in Public Administration; • Modern Ukrainian Society: Sociological Analysis.
Summary of the subject: Analysis of one categorical variable. Types of categorical variables. Coding categorical variables. Frequency analysis of categorical variables. Descriptive statistics for nominal and ordinal data. Models of two categorical variables dependencies. The basic models of two nominal variables dependencies. Odds of two nominal variables dependencies. Construction and analysis of two-dimensional tables. Factor analysis. Cluster analysis. The approaches to the analysis of multidimensional tables.
Assessment methods and criteria: • current control: written reports on laboratory work, oral examination, individual work (40%); • final control (control measure, test): writing (60%).
Recommended books: 1. Paniotto, V.I., Maksymenko, V.S. & Kharchcenko N.M. (2004) Statystychnyi analiz sotsiolohichnykh danykh. – K.: Vyd. dim «КМ Akademiia» (in Ukrainian); 2. Horbachyk, A. P. (2008) Analiz danyh sotsiolohichnyh doslidzhen zasobamy SPSS: Navch. posib. Lutsk : RVV «Vezha» Volyn. nats. univers. im. Lesi Ukrainky (in Ukrainian); 3. Keuschnigg, M., Lovsjo, N. & Hedstrom, P. (2017). Analytical Sociology and Computational Social Science. Journal of Computational Science. DOI: 10.1007/s42001-017-0006-5. 4. Cruz, M. S.-G., Cilleros, M., Victoria, M. & Sanchez, G. (2019). Evaluation of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) Applied to Research. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-20798-4_41. 5. Edelmann, A., Wolff, T., Montagne, D. & Bail, C. A. (2020) Computational Social Science and Sociology. Annual Review of Sociology, 46(1). DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054621