SAGE Secondary Data Analysis

John Goodwin

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781446246900
• eBook ISBN: 9781446275948
• Edition: 1

One central and enduring image of the social science researcher is of an individual who commits a great deal of time to collecting original, primary data from a field of enquiry. This approach is often underpinned by a sincerely held belief that key research questions can only be explored by the collection of ever new, and ever greater amounts of data, or that already existing data are insufficient for researchers to test their ideas. Yet such an approach to social science research can be problematic not least because the collection of primary data can be an expensive, time-consuming, and even wasteful approach to social enquiry.

Secondary analysis can serve many purposes, as well as being a valid approach in its own right. However, despite its widespread application, secondary analysis is often undervalued or perceived to be the preserve of only those interested in the re-use of large-scale survey data.

Highlighting both the theory and practice of secondary analysis and the use of secondary sources, this collection considers the nature of secondary analysis as a research tool; reflects on the definitional debates surrounding terms such as secondary analysis, data re-use and restudies; illustrates how secondary analysis is used in social science research; and finally reviews the practical, methodological and ethical aspects of secondary analysis.

Volume One: Using Secondary Sources and Secondary Analysis

Volume Two: Quantitative Approaches to Secondary Analysis

Volume Three: Qualitative Data and Research in Secondary Analysis

Volume Four: Ethical, Methodological and Practical Issues in Secondary Analysis

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Appendix of Sources
• Editor’s Introduction: Secondary Sources and Secondary Analysis
• 1 - What Is Secondary Analysis?
• 2 - Introduction to Secondary Analysis of Survey Data
• 3 - Secondary Analysis and the Relationship between Official and Academic Social Research
• 4 - The General Household Survey as a Source for Secondary Analysis
• 5 - Combining Registry, Primary, and Secondary Data Sources to Identify the Impact of Cancer on Labor Market Outcom
• 6 - Using Secondary Data in Marketing Research: A Project That Melds Web and Off-Web Sources
• 7 - Secondary Research, New Product Screening, and the Marketing Research Course: An Experiment in Structured Decision Making
• 8 - Secondary Data for Policy Studies: Benefits and Challenges
• 9 - Conducting Secondary Research
• 10 - Data Collection in the Urban Setting
• 11 - Introduction to Secondary Research
• 12 - Secondary Data Analysis
• 13 - Official Statistics
• 14 - Using Other People’s Data
• 15 - Secondary Data Analysis
• 17 - The Basic Language of Statistics
• Volume II
• Contents
• 18 - Secondary Analysis of a Major Societal Experiment: The Effects of Standardized Testing in Elementary Schools
• 19 - Complex Sampling Designs and Statistical Issues in Secondary Analysis
• 20 - Research Methodology: Using Online Technology for Secondary Analysis of Survey Research Data – “Act Globally, Think Locally”
• 22 - Police Involvement in Child Protective Services Investigations: Literature Review and Secondary Data Analysis
• 23 - A Secondary Survey Analysis Study of African American Ethnic Identity Orientations in Two National Samples
• 24 - Neighborhood Effects in Temporal Perspective: The Impact of Long-Term Exposure to Concentrated Disadvantage on High School Graduation
• 25 - Community College Student Engagement Patterns: A Typology Revealed through Exploratory Cluster Analysis
• 26 - Patterns of Substance Involvement and Criminal Behavior: A Gender-based Cluster Analysis of Pennsylvania Arrestees
• 27 - Regional Differences in Labour Market Participation of Young People in the European Union
• 28 - Determining the Relative Importance of Predictors in Logistic Regression: An Extension of Relative Weight Analysis
• 29 - Women, Lifelong Learning and Transitions into Employment
• 30 - Strong Families, Tidy Houses, and Children’s Values in Adult Life: Are “Chaotic”, “Crowded” and “Unstable” Homes Really So Bad?
• 31 - Race and Ethnicity and the Controversy over the US Census
• 32 - Identifying and Measuring Dimensions of Urban Deprivation in Montreal: An Analysis of the 1996 Census Data
• 33 - Disparities in Access to Care among Asthmatic Children in Relation to Race and Socioeconomic Status
• 34 - Gender Differences in Predictors of Assaultive Behavior in Late Adolescence
• 35 - Measuring Interest Group Influence Using Quantitative Text Analysis
• 36 - Facilitating Content Analysis in Tourism Research
• 37 - When Less Is More: Selection Problems in Large-N and Small-N Cross-National Comparisons
• 38 - Family Policies, Wage Structures, and Gender Gaps: Sources of Earnings Inequality in 20 Countries
• Volume III
• Contents
• 39 - Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data: A Valuable Method for Exploring Sensitive Issues with an Elusive Population?
• 40 - Mobility Adaptations of Older Adults: A Secondary Analysis
• 41 - Women’s Empowermentin Pakistan – Defi nitions and Enabling and Disenabling Factors: A Secondary Data Analysis
• 42 - Exploring Complex Transitions: Looking Back at the ‘Golden Age’ of from School to Work
• 43 - Through the Interviewer’s Lens: Representations of 1960s Households and Families in a Lost Sociological Study
• 44 - Resistance and Adaptation to Criminal Identity: Using Secondary Analysis to Evaluate Classic Studies of Crime and Deviance
• 45 - Can We Re-Use Qualitative Datavia Secondary Analysis? Notes on Some Terminological and Substantive Issues
• 46 - (Re)Using Qualitative Data?
• 47 - A Refl exive Account of Reusing Qualitative Data: Beyond Primary/Secondary Dualism
• 48 - Linking Stress and Injury in the Farming Environment: A Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data
• 49 - The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Doing a Secondary Analysis of a Qualitative Data Set
• 51 - Using Documents in Research
• 52 - Using Documents
• 53 - Secondary Analysis of Archived Data
• 54 - Types of Qualitative Secondary Analysis
• 55 - Revisiting
• 56 - A Theoretical Understanding of Sickness Absence among Women Who Have Experienced Workplace Bullying
• 57 - Distinguishing the Trees from the Forest: Applying Cluster Analysis to Thematic Qualitative Data
• Volume IV
• Contents
• 58 - Ethical and Representational Issues in Qualitative Secondary Analysis
• 59 - Utilizing Data from a Lost Sociological Project: Experiences, Insights, Promises
• 60 - Obtaining and Evaluating Data Sets for Secondary Analysis in Nursing Research
• 61 - The Impact of Working with Disturbing Secondary Data: Reading Suicide Files in a Coroner’s Office
• 62 - Secondary Consumer Data
• 63 - Identifying What Data Must Be Collected
• 64 - Evaluating Secondary Sources
• 65 - Alternative Data Sources
• 66 - Locating Appropriate Data
• 67 - Secondary Analysis: An Important Resource for Educational Research and Evaluation
• 68 - Qualitative Researchers’ Understandings of Their Practice and the Implications for Data Archiving and Sharing
• 69 - Using Large-Scale Databases in Evaluation: Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges
• 70 - Large Scale Survey Data in Career Development Research
• 71 - The Provision of Access to Quantitative Data for Secondary Analysis