Jonathan wants to study rates of disenfranchisement in the United States over a 20-year period. What is the best method for him to do so? Identify the stages he must follow as he formulates his study. Discuss some possible problems he may encounter.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: The use of existing data sets and other data from governmental and other organizations’ websites such as Corrections and the Department of Justice Statistics. The need for Jonathan to find the appropriate data must be discussed. He also must engage in data scraping to allow him to extract large amounts of information from the websites he may use. He may have difficulty with measurement error, gaps in data collection, and accessing problems.
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