Worksheets and Projects in Applied Economics

Business Datasets from STARS (Creation of Statistical Resources from Real Datasets) contains 4 economics-related datasets with worksheets and guides on how to manipulate and process the data. The datasets under 'Business' are: an employee satisfaction survey; a survey of students' debt levels after graduation; a survey linking fast-food consumption to media use and other lifestyle aspects; and a survey linking buyer behaviour to intensity of lighting in a supermarket. Each is available in Excel, SPSS and Minitab, with links to the appropriate software. Statistical topics covered are: descriptive statistics, charts, tests of means, tests of association, non-parametric tests, correlation and regression. The last two topics are only illustrated using the site's non-business datasets, on health and psychology.