Child Development: outline (using SDA)

Child Development: outline (using SDA)

Course topics and readings will be attached please use a topic relevant to the course topics and readings and use them as references!

One-page outline of your research project (or two pages if double-spaced).
An outline indicates your research question, how it relates to the concepts and previous research in the discipline, and what data you will use in order to address that research question. In other words you need to posit one or more sociological hypotheses and then show how these will be illustrated (or perhaps disconfirmed) by empirical data. Possible topics might be oriented to current issues related to children and youth, using SDA to analyze NLSCY data for Canada or ECLS data for the USA or Census data from either country. These might include the prevalence and correlates of children’s exposure to low income, lone parenthood, divorce or public housing, to parental smoking and substance use, to various styles of parenting, to non-official home languages, to various regimes of day-care or early childhood education in different provinces. Students should consider research questions around outcome measures such as physical health, mental health or cognitive outcomes, including respiratory problems, anxiety, hyperactivity and Ritalin medication, direct and indirect aggression, receptive vocabulary scores, etc. Focus on adolescents could lead to questions about parental control, sexual behaviour, bullying, and so forth. Census data from the first decades of the 20th and 21st Centuries can be used to answer questions about the children of immigrants and minorities in the US and Canada, for example about their participation in education and paid work.

The main Canadian national survey of children is the NLSCY for which you can find “public use” and “synthetic” data in SDA format at www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib

A roughly comparable US survey is the ECLS. Data are available for online analysis with SDA from the ICPSR site at the University of Michigan www.icpsr.umich.edu.

Basic data on children are included in samples from past Censuses. Canadian data are available at www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib): alternatively US Census data (at www.ipums.org where registration is required for online data analysis).

You should demonstrate your “due diligence” in establishing that variables relevant to your research question exist in such data sources.

Your outline should have a title. Bear in mind that your eventual report will have sections with headings such as: Introduction; Sociological Literature; Methods and Data; Results; Limitations; Discussion; Conclusion; References. It should give sufficient information that the instructor can form a judgment as to whether or not your research question makes sense and that the proposal is feasible. You have very limited space for this outline so repeated drafts will be needed. Write in complete sentences and break up your text into paragraphs.
The website of the University of Michigan’s International Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) www.icpsr.umich.edu has an online learning feature that provides help in the use and interpretation of data analysis with the SDA package.

 

 
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