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Applied Cross-Cultural Data Analysis for Social Work offers practical guides for data analysis in cross-cultural research. It shows how social workers can employ commonly-used statistical approaches to make meaningful comparisons in health, mental health, social and psychological phenomena across cultural groups. The book can also be used as a textbook for advanced research course in social work and allied fields and would benefit graduate students, faculty, and researchers.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Culture and Social Work
- Chapter 3. Data Management and Cross-Cultural Descriptive Analysis
- Chapter 4. Applied Multiple Regression Analysis in Cross-Cultural Comparisons
- Chapter 5. Comparing A Binary Dependent Variable Across Cultural Groups Using Applied
- Logistic Regression
- Chapter 6. Applied Structural Equation Modeling for Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Chapter 7. Applied Hierarchical Linear Modeling for Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Chapter 8. Conclusion and Future Directions
About the author
Thanh V. Tran, PhD, MSW, is Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, Boston College.
Keith T. Chan, PhD, MSW, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College at the City of New York.
Summary
Applied Cross-Cultural Data Analysis for Social Work is a research guide for examining and interpreting data for the purpose of cultural group comparisons. This book aims to provide practical applications in statistical approaches of data analyses that are commonly used in cross-cultural research and evaluation. Readers are presented with step-by-step illustrations in the use of descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate statistics to compare cross-cultural population using large-scale, population-based survey data. These techniques have important applications in health, mental health, and social science research relevant to social work and other helping professions, especially in providing a framework of evidence to examine health disparities using population-health data. For each statistical approach discussed in this book, Thanh V. Tran and Keith T. Chan explain the underlying purpose, basic assumptions, types of variables, application of the Stata statistical package, the presentation of statistical findings, and the interpretation of results. Unlike previous guides on statistical approaches and data analysis in social work, this book explains and demonstrates the strategies of cross-cultural data analysis using descriptive and bivariate analysis, multiple regression, additive and multiplicative interaction, mediation, SEM and HLM for subgroup analysis and cross-cultural comparisons. This book also includes sample syntax from Stata for social work researchers to conduct cross-cultural analysis with their own research.
