I'm teaching a seminar on democracy in Latin America that will rely heavily on empirical measurement using publicly available datasets. One of the datasets I want my students to use is the AmericasBarometer data. Can anyone recommend a good, but short (article/chapter length) overview of the data and how it can/should be used?
Hi,
All the information you need about AmericasBarometer project you can find on the Lapop's website
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/about-americasbarometer.php
Datasets can be downloaded from the following link
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/free-access.php
Each data set has a brief explanation included within it, that can be found by opening the file in any version of SPSS 13 or higher, and going to "utilities," and then to "file comments." These comments will help the user understand the nature of the sample weights, if any, and other relevant issues.
See the link below for additional info for datasets usage
http://datasets.americasbarometer.org/database-login/aboutdataset.html
Hope this helps. Good luck!
Yes, thanks. I think I've decided to use those. I was hoping for a stand-alone article (like the JoD article introducing the V-Dem dataset) to assign before we dove into the data and analysis directly.
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