How we measured Americans’ engagement in public life
This piece explains how researchers measured Americans’ engagement in public life using multimode surveys, address-based sampling and cluster analysis.
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How to analyze Pew Research Center survey data in R
Pew Research Center releases its survey data publicly as IBM SPSS files with the .sav extension. But if you don’t have access to SPSS, there are free, open-source tools available to analyze and make use of the data.
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