http://www.acorn.org/
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the largest community organization of low and moderate-income families. This site discusses community strategies in the United States and abroad.

http://www.acosa.org/
The Association for Community Organization and Social Administration provides information and resources relevant to community organizers, activists, administrators, policy makers, students, and educators.

http://www.agingresearch.org/
The Alliance for Aging Research provides information on the most current research on aging Americans. It also provides numerous links to other resources.

http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/
Sponsored by the National Institute of Health, this site provides information about HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, including information about maternal-child transmission. Information is available in Spanish and English.

http://www.alcoholstudies.rutgers.edu/
The Center for Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University offers a wealth of information on alcoholism and treatment.

http://www.apha.org
This site provides links to research articles on various public health issues.

http://www.aoa.gov/
This U.S. Administration on Aging site offers information on public policy issues affecting older adults, current literature on aging issues, and numerous links to other Web sites concerning aging.

http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/
The Campbell Collaboration houses systematic reviews on research evidence on interventions and programs in education, social welfare, criminal justice, and research methods.

http://www.casacolumbia.org/
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University includes all professional disciplines to study and combat abuse of all substances—alcohol, nicotine, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, performance-enhancing drugs. The site offers numerous links.

http://www.cbpp.org/
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities provides a host of information about current policy and research.

http://www.cdc.gov/omhd/default.htm
The Center for Disease Control offers this Web site focusing on minority health issues. The Web site provides links to current research and funding opportunities as well as national and state statistics.

http://www.census.gov/
The U.S. Bureau of Census home page contains links to tables and graphs reporting detailed census data.

http://www.charityadvantage.com/iaswr/
The Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research promotes social work research conducted by academic and professional organizations.

http://www.childrensdefense.org/
CDF is an advocacy group for children. The site provides numerous links, including advocacy information.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/csswp/
The Center for the Study of Social Work Practice is focused on the development and dissemination of social work practice knowledge.

http://cosw.sc.edu/swan/
Sponsored by the University of South Carolina's School of Social Work, this Web site provides links to social work organizations and upcoming conferences.

http://www.c-s-i.org/
Crime Stoppers International, an organization devoted to fighting crime and violence around the world, offers links to interesting sites related to the subject of crime and violence.

http://www.cswe.org
The Council on Social Work Education accredits social work programs and provides educational leadership.

http://www.cwla.org
The Child Welfare League of America is an association of almost 1,200 public and private nonprofit agencies that assist abused and neglected children and their families. This site provides links to various child welfare topics.

http://www.dsgonline.com/mpg2.5/mpg_index.htm
Registry of evidence-based interventions sponsored by The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

http://www.endhomelessness.org/
The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to mobilize the nonprofit, public and private sectors of society in an alliance to end homelessness.

http://www.eval.org/
The American Evaluation Association Web site provides access to a variety of publications and links related to program evaluation.

http://fdncenter.org/
This link offers resources for finding foundation grants.

http://www.gallup.com/
This site contains election poll results back to 1936 and information on polls on current events.

http://www.hrc.org/
The Human Rights Campaign provides information on various policy issues affecting the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community.

http://www.ifsw.org/
The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) is a global organization striving for social justice, human rights and social development through the development of social work, best practices, and international cooperation between social workers and their professional organizations.

http://www.isr.umich.edu/
The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research stores empirical research in a wide variety of disciplines such as psychology, economics, sociology, and public health.

http://www.kff.org/
The Kaiser Family Foundation Web site provides in-depth information on key health policy issues including Medicaid, Medicare, prescription drugs, global HIV/AIDS.

http://infomine.ucr.edu/
INFOMINE (Scholarly Internet Resource Collection) links scholars to sites containing a wide range of scholarly materials.

http://www.naswdc.org/
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is the largest membership organization of professional social workers in the world. This Web site provides links to the NASW Code of Ethics, publications, and the NASW position on various state and federal legislative issues. NASW maintains the Practice Research Network, a research program that collects and analyzes data on social work practice as well as a variety of social work service delivery issues.

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/
The National Coalition for the Homeless provides current statistics, links to publications, legislative developments and other resources.

http://www.ncadv.org/
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) provides information about domestic violence, public policy initiatives, and links to resource information.

http://www.nccp.org/
The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is a nonprofit organization at Columbia University whose mission is to identify and promote strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and families. This Web site contains policy and research information.

http://ncmhd.nih.gov/
The National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities offers links to current research and funding opportunities.

http://www.ncoa.org/
This complete Web site provides links to current professional research, publications for the lay community, and political advocacy for professionals interested in issues affecting older adults.

http://www.ncpa.org/newdpd/index.php
The National Center for Policy Analysis is a nonprofit public policy research institute seeking innovative private-sector solutions to public policy problems. The Web site links to information on a vast array of policy issues.

http://www.nia.nih.gov
The National Institute on Aging's Web site provides links to research programs, funding and training, and health information.

http://www.nih.gov
The National Institutes of Health Web site offers information about NIH programs and funding opportunities.

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html
This is a guide to finding grants from NIH.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov
The National Institute of Mental Health provides information about mental health conditions and treatment as well as research opportunities.

http://www.nlchp.org
The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty's mission is to prevent and end homelessness by serving as the legal arm of the nationwide movement to end homelessness. The site provides links to information about housing, income, education, and civil rights.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/gaylesbianandtransgenderhealth.html
This site provides information on the special health concerns of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/domesticviolence.html
Sponsored by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Mental Health, this Web site provides links to prevention, identification, medical, legal, and mental health resources for professionals working with children, teens, women, and men affected by domestic violence.

http://www.nmha.org/
The National Mental Health Association maintains this Web site which provides information about current policies, conference information, and funding opportunities.

http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/about.asp
Sponsored by SAMHSA, The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) is a searchable online registry of mental health and substance abuse interventions.

http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/ip/
Jointly sponsored by New York University's Ehrenkrantz School of Social Work and the Division of Social Work and Behavioral Science, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, this Web site links users to current research and professional organizations dealing with various social work topics.

http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov/
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, this Web site provides links to current research and program funding opportunities as well as current research on violence against women.

http://www.omhrc.gov/
The Office of Minority Health provides information about the status of public health activities affecting people of color. The site provides data, publications and links to other sites.

http://www.rwjf.org/index.jsp
The Robert J. Woods Foundation provides funding for healthcare related research, education, and projects.

http://www.samhsa.gov/
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration site offers summaries of publications, reports, and statistical information on SAMHSA research.

http://www.socialworker.com/
This Web site provides links to the New Social Worker magazine on-line. The magazine's primary focus is on career development and practical professional information for social workers and social work students. It includes articles on practice specialties, social work ethics, field placement, books, news, technology, and other topics of interest to professional social workers and social work students.

http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp
The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded in 1971 as a small civil rights law firm. Today, the Center is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists and its tracking of hate groups. The site provides a variety of links.

http://www.irp.wisc.edu/
This complete and easy to navigate Web site, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin, has links to current research on poverty.

http://www.sswr.org/
The Society for Social Work and Research is dedicated to advancing social work research and to providing opportunities for social work researchers to network and present their findings to colleagues from around the world.

http://stats.bls.gov/
This government site contains links to research publications and statistics as well as links to other sites.

http://www.thecommunityguide.org
The Guide to Community Preventive Services prorvides systematic reviews and interventions to promote community health on a range of topics.

http://www.thetaskforce.org/
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force provides information about advocacy, policy, and publications related to the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.

http://thomas.loc.gov/
This site provides links to pending and past federal legislation and committee composition.

http://www.who.int/hiv/en/
This site is part of the World Health Organization Web site and provides information on HIV/AIDS throughout the world. This site provides links to various sites and current statistics and research.

http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/en/
This Web site contains information pertaining to psychoactive substance use and abuse, and also information about the World Health Organization's projects and activities in the areas of substance use and substance dependence.

 

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

 

General Social Survey (GSS) 2006x Datasets and Documentation

GSS2006x (requires SPSS student or SPSS Base Program)

GSS2006 Tutorial (requires SPSS student or SPSS Base Program)

GSS2006 Questionnaire

GSS2006 Cumulative Codebook

GSS2006x Variable List

GSS2006 Tutorial Variable List

Shelter Dataset (SPSS) and Shelter Survey Instrument

Shelter Dataset (SPSS)

Shelter Survey Instrument

 

Statistics Tutorials to Accompany The Fundamentals of Social Work Research
Russell K. Schutt

The statistics tutorials provide a step-by-step, hands-on guide to using SPSS to generate basic statistics. You can perform all analyses in the tutorials with the special file from the 2006 General Social Survey, GSS2006TUTORIAL, that is available on the Study Site. This file contains a selected sample of 1500 cases from the GSS so that it can be used with the Student Version of SPSS, as well as with the standard version.

The tutorials include all instructions required to generate the output you are asked to inspect. Just start the SPSS program and then open the GSS2006TUTORIAL file. Now you can start reading the first tutorial on descriptive statistics and working through the procedures it explains.

The tutorials present the basics of descriptive statistics, crosstabulation, the elaboration method with crosstabulation, inferential statistics, and correlation and regression analysis (with short introductions to multiple regression and analysis of variance).

Some of the steps in the Crosstabulation Tutorial involve recoding variables, which are then used in subsequent steps. However, these recoded variables are also included within the file so that the recoding steps can be skipped. Recoded variables are all named with the same names given in the tutorial recoding instructions, but with the suffix SET. You may have questions about how to interpret results, or what to do if you receive an error message. Don't worry! Just ask your instructor or teaching assistant for advice. You may want to work through the online SPSS Appendix to develop your familiarity with SPSS before you begin the tutorials.

RKS Descriptive Statistics Tutorial.doc

RKS Inferential Statistics Tutorial.doc

RKS Crosstabulation Tutorial.doc

RKS Elaboration with Crosstabulation Tutorial.doc

RKS Regression Tutorial.doc