Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Designs

This presentation looks in-depth at cross-sectional and longitudinal designs. It also looks at the problem of establishing causality (rather than correlation) in social science and uses a video from GapMinder to show the power of temporal data. It uses major social science surveys to demonstrate the types of topics and questions that can be addressed by the different research designs. The activity at the end of the presentation is suitable for a seminar group - it's harder than it sounds