2005 Spring Term / Subjects ( ) / SOCIOL Classes ( ) / SOCIOL 310 SOCIOL 310 - SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DATA Introduction to the acquisition and transformation of raw information into economic and social data. Legal, statistical, computing, and social science aspects of data "manufacturing" process. Emphasis on the formal United States infrastructure and access to confidential data offered through the Census Research Data Cent (RDC) network. Basic statistical principles of populations and sampling frames; acquiring data via samples, censuses administrative records, and transaction logging; the law, economics and statistics of data privacy and confidentiality protection; data linking and integration techniques; analytic methods in the social sciences. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Staff. E/C Meeting Time (Location) Instructor 01 LEC 0/5 W 7:15 PM-9:30 PM (Franklin C 028) Crosslisted as: ECON 310,POLSCI 338 Chen,Susan Elizabeth