University of Ottawa



GSS RTRA Research Training

Fall 2016

Survey Example – General Social Survey: Social Identity

Question: Does having more knowledge in Canadian history correlate to having more pride in being Canadian?

Supplementa;: How does age affect this

FINDING and VERIFYING YOUR SURVEY: General Social Survey, 2013 [Canada]: Cycle 27, Social Identity [version 2] 1

Step 1. Open an Internet Explorer session.

|Step 4. Click on the [pic] on the left of [pic] Social Surveys | |

|Step 5. Click on the [pic] on the left of [pic] CANADA |

|Step 6. Click on the [pic] on the left of [pic] General Social Survey (GSS) | |

|Step 7. Click on the [pic] on the left of your selected cycle ( | |

|[pic] Cycle 27, 2013 Social Identity & Giving, Volunteering and Participating | |

|07-2008 | |

|Step 8. Click on the [pic] on the left of [pic]. General Social Survey, 2013 | |

|[Canada]: Cycle 27, Social Identity [version 2] | |

Step 9. You now have full access to the features for your survey, such as Metadata (documentation), the data: Variable Description, Tabulation, Weighting and Downloading.

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|Step 10. View your survey documentation. Click on the [pic] on the left of [pic] |

|Metadata, and note: Study Description, Data Files Description and Other |

|Documentation. |

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|Please save all the survey documents you may need again to your computer/memory |

|stick for future reference. |

| Step 11. For citation information, click on the [pic] on the left of [pic] Study |[pic] |

|description, then click on the [pic] on the left of [pic] Bibliographic Citation. | |

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|The Bibliographic Citation elements found in the DESCRIPTION area to the right need| |

|to be put into the appropropriate style. For example, the APA 6th edition citation | |

|for this survey would be: | |

|Step 12. (optional) For information about the size of the data files, click on the | |

|[pic] on the left of [pic] Data Files Description, | |

|Step 13. | |

|- View your survey documentation!! Click on the [pic] on the left of [pic] Other | |

|Documentation, then click on the [pic] on the left of the desired documentation | |

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|Now let’s cross-tabulate our key variables | |

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|14. Select Tabulation | |

|15. Find our three variables and | |

|16. Add Knowledge of Canadian History to Rows | |

|17. Turn on weight | |

|18. Add Pride being Canadian to columns | |

|19. Add Age group of respondent (groups of 10) to Layer | |

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