27 April 2016 - In previous assignments I’ve looked into the association between union membership and political participation among paid employees, using the Outlook On Life surveys dataset. I found that respondents who have a union member in their household are more likely to have engaged in political participation over the past 2 years. This was consistent with what I expected on the basis of a study by Kerrissey and Schofer.

13 April 2016 - I’m using the OOL Surveys dataset and I’m interested in the association between union membership and political participation in the US (more specifically, between union membership at the household level and having engaged in at least one out of four forms of political participation over the past 2 years).

5 April 2016 - In this assignment, we’re asked to run an analysis of variance and then conduct post hoc paired comparisons. In earlier assignments I looked into the association between trade union membership and political participation, using the OOL Surveys dataset. The variables I considered are not suitable for the present assignment, so I’ll pick a different issue for now: possible regional variation in opinions about unionised workers (summary statistics about the latter variable here).

19 March 2016 - A short recap of the previous assignment: I’m using the Outlook on Life Surveys dataset and I’m interested in the relation between union membership and political participation (details here).

12 March 2016 - In our first assignment, we’re required to pick a data source that we’ll use in our upcoming assignments and think about the kind of analyses we’d like to do with it.