Applied statistics problem sets for instruction in statistics in the social sciences

The data consist of two subsets, one of the Survey Research Center's SRC 1968 American National Election Study (1,673 respondents, 1 card per respondent, 42 variables) and the other of Almond and Verba's Civic Culture Study (1,290 respondents, 1 card per respondent, and 11 variables). A set of materials for the teaching of intermediate statistics has been developed by the Consortium as part of its curricular development project. This project grew out of the ICPSR Training Program, and the underlying pedagogical perspectives matured in this program. Our experience strongly underscores the importance of moving the student of quantitative methods out of the passive mode and actively involving the student in the learning process. The material is created to present the student with a sequence of intellectual tasks through which the student will come to understand the logic and algorithms of the various techniques. The material consists of a book, Applied Statistics, by Gudmund R. Iversen, with two substantive examples by Helmut Norpoth and a chapter co-authored by Lawrence H. Boyd. A revised manuscript exists in mimeographed form. The topics consist of regression analysis (simple and multiple, dummy variables, multicollinearity, analysis of residuals), analysis of variance and covariance, contingency tables, Bayesian statistics, and multilevel analysis.