The Data Game,9780765603753

The Data Game

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9780765603753
ISBN10: 0765603756
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-06-01
Publisher(s): M E Sharpe Inc
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Summary

Now updated for web-based research, the third edition of The Data Game introduces students to the collection, use, and interpretation of statistical data in the social sciences. Separate chapters are devoted to data in the fields of demography, housing, health, education, crime, the national economy, wealth, income and poverty, labor, business, government, and public opinion polling. The concluding chapter is devoted to the common problem of ambiguity in social science statistics.

Author Biography

Mark H. Maier is Professor of Economics at Glendale College, Glendale, California.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes
xi
Preface to the Third Edition xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction
3(7)
The Purpose of This Book
3(2)
How to Use This Book
5(5)
Demography
10(25)
Data Sources
11(3)
U.S. Census
11(3)
Vital Statistics
14(1)
Controversies
14(18)
The Population Undercount
14(3)
Undocumented Immigrants
17(1)
Costly Immigrants?
18(1)
A Birth Dearth?
18(1)
Race and Ethnicity
19(8)
Households and Families
27(2)
``Oh No, I Forgot to Get Married!''
29(1)
Divorce
30(2)
Summary
32(1)
Case Study Questions
33(2)
Housing
35(20)
Data Sources
35(5)
U.S. Census
35(1)
American Housing Survey
36(3)
Price Data
39(1)
Controversies
40(12)
Housing Quality
40(1)
Is There an Affordability Crisis?
41(3)
Racial Discrimination by Banks
44(1)
The Homeless
45(2)
Geographic Units
47(2)
Segregation
49(1)
Is Seattle the Best Place to Live?
50(2)
Summary
52(1)
Case Study Questions
53(2)
Health
55(22)
Data Sources
55(4)
Controversies
59(15)
Infant Mortality
59(3)
Are We Living Longer?
62(3)
Cancer
65(3)
AIDS
68(1)
Is Slower Safer?
69(2)
Benefit-Cost Analysis
71(3)
Summary
74(1)
Case Study Questions
75(2)
Education
77(19)
Data Sources
77(4)
National Center for Education Statistics
77(1)
U.S. Census Bureau
78(1)
Other Surveys
78(3)
Controversies
81(13)
Poor Data
81(1)
High School Dropouts
82(2)
Illiteracy
84(1)
Black Educational Progress
85(2)
School Desegregation: What Has Happened?
87(2)
Testing
89(5)
Summary
94(1)
Case Study Questions
95(1)
Crime
96(25)
Data Sources
96(4)
Uniform Crime Reports
96(1)
National Crime Victimization Survey
97(3)
Controversies
100(17)
How Much Crime Is There?
100(5)
Is the Crime Wave Over?
105(1)
Rape
106(2)
Will You Be a Crime Victim?
108(2)
Does Poverty Cause Crime?
110(1)
Why Is the Black Crime Rate So High?
111(1)
Does Prison Pay?
112(2)
Does Capital Punishment Deter Murder?
114(1)
What About White-Collar Crime?
115(2)
Summary
117(2)
Case Study Questions
119(2)
The National Economy
121(23)
Data Sources
121(6)
U.S. Commerce Department
121(4)
U.S. Labor Department
125(1)
U.S. Federal Reserve Board
126(1)
Private Sector
126(1)
Controversies
127(14)
Which GDP?
127(1)
Adjusting GDP Growth for Inflation
128(1)
Problems with GDP
129(2)
Underground Economy
131(1)
Intercountry Comparisons
132(1)
Measuring Productivity
133(4)
The Savings Rate
137(2)
International Statistics
139(2)
Summary
141(2)
Case Study Questions
143(1)
Wealth, Income, and Poverty
144(23)
Data Sources
144(5)
Wealth
144(4)
Income
148(1)
Controversies
149(15)
Are the Rich Getting Richer?
149(2)
What Is Wealth?
151(2)
Who Is the Richest of Them All?
153(1)
Are We Better Off?
153(4)
Disappearing Middle Class
157(2)
What Is Poverty?
159(5)
Summary
164(1)
Case Study Questions
165(2)
Labor Statistics
167(21)
Data Sources
167(4)
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statics
167(1)
U.S. Census Bureau
168(3)
Controversies
171(15)
Unemployment
171(5)
Better Jobs?
176(2)
The Minimum Wage and Jobs
178(2)
Unions
180(1)
Is the Workplace Safe?
181(1)
Squirrel Cage or Easier Times?
182(2)
International Labor Statistics
184(2)
Summary
186(1)
Case Study Questions
186(2)
Business Statistics
188(26)
Data Sources
188(6)
Public Corporations
188(4)
Privately Held Corporations
192(1)
Small Businesses
193(1)
Aggregate Statistics
193(1)
Controversies
194(18)
Who Is the Biggest of Them All?
194(5)
Are the Big Too Big?
199(3)
The Urge to Merge---Are the Big Getting Bigger?
202(1)
Is Small Beautiful?
203(2)
Line-of-Business Reporting
205(2)
How Much Profit?
207(2)
How Now Dow?
209(1)
Picking Stock Winners
209(3)
Summary
212(1)
Case Study Questions
213(1)
Government
214(24)
Data Sources
214(4)
U.S. Budget
214(1)
Money
215(3)
Prices
218(1)
Controversies
218(18)
How Much for the Military?
218(2)
How Much for Welfare?
220(2)
How Big Is the Deficit?
222(2)
A Debt Monster?
224(2)
Taxes
226(2)
Measuring Money
228(3)
Inflation
231(1)
Currency Rates
232(4)
Summary
236(1)
Case Study Questions
236(2)
Public Opinion Polling
238(25)
Data Sources
238(3)
Private Polling Organizations
238(1)
Media Polls
239(1)
Research Centers
240(1)
Controversies
241(18)
Predicting Elections
241(5)
Polling Standards
246(2)
Horserace Journalism
248(2)
Question Wording
250(3)
Question Order
253(1)
Moral Majority: Agree or Strongly Agree?
254(1)
Don't Knows: Ignorance or Honesty?
255(3)
What Do Women Want?
258(1)
Summary
259(2)
Case Study Questions
261(2)
Conclusions
263(12)
Headline Makers
263(1)
Truth by Repetition
264(2)
What's Missing?
266(1)
What's ``Social'' in Social Science Statistics?
267(3)
The Mathematics of Social Science Statistics
270(2)
What's a Researcher to Do?
272(3)
Notes 275(46)
Index 321(12)
About the Author 333

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