Social Research & Statistics

Since its origin 23 years ago as a pilot test conducted in four U.S. counties, the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) has been th...

Retail trade has experienced dramatic changes over the past several decades in the United States, with changes in the types of outlets where goods ...

This Proceedings of a Workshop summarizes the presentations and discussions at the Workshop on the Implications of Convergence for How the National...

The National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), one of the nation's principal statistical agencie...

The primary function of the intelligence analyst is to make sense of information about the world, but the way analysts do that work will look profo...

Measuring and analyzing public opinion comes with tremendous challenges, as evidenced by recent struggles to predict election outcomes and to antic...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI), produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), is the most widely used measure of inflation in the U.S. It is us...

Featuring a conversational, engaging, and student-friendly writing style, The Process of Social Research, Third Edition, introduces students to the...

Designing Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning so...

Designing Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning so...

The past century has witnessed remarkable advances in life expectancy in the United States and throughout the world. In 2010, however, progress in ...

Human trafficking has many names and can take many forms - pimp control, commercial sex, exploitation, forced labor, modern slavery, child labor, a...

This Proceedings of a Workshop summarizes the presentations and discussions at the Workshop on Improving Consent and Response in Longitudinal Studi...

Explore an integrated approach to public health research methods In Integrated Research Methods in Public Health, a team of eminent public health r...

In Anthropology in the Meantime Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to rebuild theo...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The chapters in this book call attention to vulnerabilities, challenges and risks for applied linguistics researchers and the communities they work...

The chapters in this book call attention to vulnerabilities, challenges and risks for applied linguistics researchers and the communities they work...

A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource for state-of-the-art Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R software. This guide facilit...

This book contains the proceedings of the 18th Social Simulation Conference (SSC) and covers the state of the art of social simulation modeling. Th...

This engaging introduction to all aspects of qualitative research challenges students to consider how their research can be culturally responsive. ...

This edited volume presents an international collection of fieldwork experiences from every stage of the research process with a view to normalisin...

The Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean of ECLAC presents a set of basic statistics on the economic, sociodemographic and envi...

Simply put, Thinking Through Statistics is a primer on how to maintain rigorous data standards in social science work. But dont let that daunt you....

This edition of the Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean addresses the challenges of labour inclusion as a key axis for inclusive soc...