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QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH TITLE
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The effectiveness of home visits by specialist nurses in preventing infections for those patients undergoing home immunoglobulin therapy as opposed to those not receiving such home visits.
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We now know what we are looking at - how effective are home visits in preventing infections to those having their therapy at home rather than in hospital. We know the subjects - those having therapy at home (in this case it is concerned with immunoglobulin replacement therapy for those people with an immune deficiency. We can probably guess that it is going to be a quantitative study (survey study rather than e!perimental" as it is comparing two variables - those not receiving home visits and those who are receiving home visits. #onsequently we will want a large sample.
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$ata collection will involve comparing the rates of infection between the two groups. $ata analysis will be statistical.
%o you can see how important a clear and full title is at this stage - we now know a lot about the research without actually having read the proposal. Title http://www.health.herts.ac.uk/immunology/Web%20programme%20%20Researchhealthprofessionals/quantitatie!research!title.htm
&elationship 'etween volunteering and eneral )appiness. *&esearch question+: $oes volunteering promote personal happiness,
Research Topics
would like to research how the increasing number of registered nonprofits are affecting giving trends in the nited %tates. %pecifically would like to see if different age groups are showing different trends regarding their giving in response to the i number of charities. /erhaps the 0ational #enter for #haritable %tatistics the #urrent /opulation %urvey volunteer supplement (122 the eneral %ocial %urvey both through #/%&
would like to focus on 4olunteerism in 0orth #arolina for my research project. )owever if you think that there might be li or research on just 0orth #arolina would feel fine with looking at the nited %tates instead. want to e!amine who volunt (age gender race religion etc" the types of places people volunteer and how often people volunteer
#/50$5: http:66www.cpanda.org6cpanda6data is great for volunteer data (in the arts though" or maybe the 0atio for #haritable %tatistics or the #urrent /opulation %urvey volunteer supplement (1223" or eneral %ocial %urvey through #/%&
*&esearch topic+: &elationship 'etween volunteering and eneral )appiness. *&esearch question+: $oes volunteering pr personal happiness, To do this research will e!amine how a focus on time versus money can lead to two distinct mind-s affect consumers7 willingness to donate to charitable causes.
/erhaps the eneral %ocial %urvey through #/%& or the #urrent /opulation %urvey volunteer supplement (122
believe am going to do my research project on the nemployment rate affecting the #rime rate at the state level.
The 'ureau of 8abor %tatistics compiles state unemployment rates and some tables can be downloaded in .!ls f one wanted to study only 0orth #arolina the 9mployment %ecurity #ommissions 8abor ;orce %tatistics provide the 0# #ounty level (or for the %tate for a number of years". #rime rates are in either the ;ederal niform #rime &eports (#rime in the nited %tates" or the state-level #rime in 0orth #arolina
The relationship between the unemployment rate and crime rate with the hypothesis that there is a positive relationship in t increase in unemployment and crime rates
The 'ureau of 8abor %tatistics compiles state unemployment rates and some tables can be downloaded in .!ls f one wanted to study only 0orth #arolina the 9mployment %ecurity #ommissions 8abor ;orce %tatistics provide the 0# #ounty level (or for the %tate for a number of years". #rime rates are in either the ;ederal niform #rime &eports (#rime in the nited %tates" or the state-level #rime in 0orth #arolina
would like to look at the relationship between the educational attainment of a *states + population and crime rates in state 9ducational attainment can be found on a state level in the 'ureau of the #ensus 5merican ;act;inder (also on level if that is ones interest". To go back in time the 1222 #ensus and <332 #ensus will provide the data. #rime in either the ;ederal niform #rime &eports (#rime in the nited %tates" or the state-level #rime in 0orth #arolin
would like to research response times to disasters by both governmental and nonprofit agencies and e!amine how the population perceived their response. 'y e!ploring this topic would be able to determine what sets agencies apart in resp disasters and what characteristics are present in a well handled response.
would love to do a ;9=5 related project have serious questions as to the availability of data. h ave found two datasets relate to applications for mitigation efforts and ;9=57s acceptance6rejection and amount of total money requested that ;9 contributed. am turning over the idea that perhaps ;9=5 grants have gone up since 36<< or even >atrina but am not sur is enough data to support this.
The relationship between childhood poverty and the age of the mother (at the time of birth". We didnt find an easy dataset. /erhaps something could be done with the 'ureau of the #ensus /ublic se =i %ample i/=% dataset focusing on female headed households with children. The #ensus 'ureaus 5merican # %urvey gives summary tables of number and percent of single female-headed households with children under ? o <@ that are below the poverty level and the number and percent of single female householders under age 1? that below the poverty level but none by age at birth of first child. The 0orth #arolina '5'A book gives number of bi age of =other (by county for 0orth #arolina" but includes no income information.
)ypothesis: The unioniBation of an organiBation is negatively related to its productivity. The idea behind the hypothesis is t organiBations with strong union membership financial support and stronger collective bargaining rights dampen innovatio
infle!ibility within management. This leads to lower productivity. 0ational &ight to Work Website may have something . t looks like DrawE nion statistics are in '8%: http:66www.bls.gov6news.release6union1.nr2.htm 5lso productivity: http:66www.bls.gov6data6Fproductivity 'u found a way to link them. The eneral %ocial %urvey through #/%& has some labor union variables.
The rate of suicides in 8esbian ay 'ise!ual and Transgender (8'T" teens. want to e!am *bullying+ and other possibl as well like parental pressure religious pressure internal conflict etcetera. The W%G5&% database http:66www.cdc.gov6injury6wisqars6facts.html http:66www.cdc.gov6violenceprevention6pub6youthHsuicide.html is supposed to have details on suicides but not 8 http:66www.icpsr.umich.edu6icpsrweb6#/%&6studies61@12<,qIbullyingCarchiveI#/%&Csort'yIJCpaging.rowsI school crime and bullying but not 8'T. $ont think this is available e!cept in many articles on the topic and the writers surveys.
would like for my topic of research to be 0orth #arolina %5T scores. s there a relationship between #ounty family incom ethnicity and %5T scores, The 0orth #arolina $epartment of /ublic nstruction in its annual %5T &eport gives summary information about t topics but does not include a datafile. The #ollege 'oard who administers the %5T also has publications addre topic. There is a section of the Web site to request data but it would take several weeks &' approval and woul probably cost. 5nd there is no guarantee the #ollege 'oard would release the data.
Topic Guestion: )ow do state environmental policies vary, W hich then brings upKWhat states have more strict environme policies, What states are less restrictive in correcting environmental pollution, Why, #9%90 has quite a bit about environmental policies that leads to Aale and specialiBed databases 8ike this one: http:66sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu6es6epi6 )eres the general link http:66www.ciesin.columbia.edu6subHguide.htmlF5nchor-9nvironmenta-?@2LL The 9/5 may have somethin also: http:66www.epa.gov6enviro6html6efHoverview.html
&esearch topic: Will having a polling location on or near a college campus affect the likelihood of a college student to vot election, Mver the past few years there has been a lot of controversy in relation to the location of early voting sites and reg polling places. would like to study the impact of the location of polling places in relation to the proportion of college6univer students that actually cast votes. /erhaps the 5merican 0ational 9lection %tudy through #/%& or the eneral %ocial %urvey also through #/%&
The &elationship between %tress 8evels at work and Nob %atisfaction /erhaps the eneral %ocial %urvey through #/%&
#orrelation between age and successful completion of bachelor7s degree. To study whether traditional students or older st have a higher rate of graduation within O years.
The 0ational #enter for 9ducation %tatistics conducts the 'accalaureate and 'eyond 8ongitudinal %tudy. Aou m able to pull out a dataset with the /ower%tats option.
would like to use a database have access to at the fire department where volunteer. 9ach time we go on a call we rec types number of apparatus that go to the call time address people who went on the call and times of dispatch en route and cleared. would like to look at factors that contribute to our service on these calls. 5s of now would like to focus on from our station time of call (more specifically we sleep in another building so how much does this increase o ur response and whether our response times are faster during the academic year when we have our $avidson #ollege student volunte us. am thinking it makes most sense to focus on the calls for 12<< and specifically on fire rather than fire and 9=% calls si are rated by %M for insurance purposes based on our response times to fire calls.
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What is the relationship between stu"y time an" e#am score of amongst $ra"e &tu"ents of '()& for &*. 20+-20,
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“What leads some students to be more successful readers than other students?”
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“Can I predict who is likely to have reading difficulties?” orrelation/regression
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“What is the best method of teaching reading?” #periment
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“What are the norms for a population for the development of reading skill?” 1escriptie
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“What are the conditions of reading instruction and learning in today’s classrooms?” ualitatie
