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For lecturers: Uncomplicated access to data sets with restricted access
You are a lecturer and would like to work with a data set in your course that has restricted access in AUSSDA? Here is an easy way to do that.
We need three columns to build a temple! Three policy-oriented reactions to political polarization and online harms
The author argues that in order to rebuild and strengthen the columns of this temple that we call democracy, we need to take a holistic approach. Thus, any policy-oriented counterstrategy to curren...
Challenges and opportunities within UK census geographies
As part of our continuing census series, James Reid introduces the opportunities, challenges and solutions when approaching different geographies in the UK censuses.
Cats are liquids: Equipercentile equating of different instruments
Equipercentile equating is an alternative version of observed score equating that can accommodate non-normal response distributions. It corrects for differences in mean and standard deviation but a...
The ebb and flow of UK census data
Oliver Duke-Williams and Vassilis Routsis explore changes in the census and the importance of origin-destination or flow data.
International Day of Happiness – How Can We Lead Fulfilled Lives?
On 20 March, we celebrate the International Day of Happiness. The non-profit organization Action for Happiness suggests in the context of its campaign how to celebrate the day: “Keep Calm. Stay Wis...