Entry:

Carter, Gregg Lee, "Teaching the Idea of Contextual Effects," Teaching Sociology, 19 (October, 1991), 526-531.


Abstract:

The author illustrates how to teach the concept of contextual effects to students with simple examples and easy to use statistical packages. For example, the positive relationship between high education and job satisfaction changes when such people work in low prestige jobs.

GSS Years:

1985

Other Data Sets:

NCES 1972

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
EDUC

HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED

PRESTIGE

RS OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1970)

SATJOB

JOB OR HOUSEWORK