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Download full textStraus, Murray A. – 1987
The debate over whether the 50 states are meaningful units for macro-sociological research has mostly been conducted on the basis of deductive reasoning. Three sets of analyses that are intended to provide much needed empirical data on this issue were studied. The first set involved all variables in the "County and City Data Book" used…
Descriptors: American Studies, Demography, Meta Analysis, Metropolitan Areas
Straus, Murray A. – 1987
The feasibility of employing survey data that uses the states of the United States as the societal units in macro-level sociological research was studied. The range of issues available for research opened to investigation would be greatly expanded if it were possible to aggregate national survey data to produce state-level statistics for variables…
Descriptors: Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity, Demography, Meta Analysis
