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It is exceptional for social research to produce descriptions or measurements of single variables. Most social researchers are interested in the relationship between events, and try to ascertain the existence of such relationships, their strength and their direction. For this reason, the analysis of data, or at least a large part of it, tends to concentrate on the relationships between variables.
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© 1998 Sotirios Sarantakos
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Sarantakos, S. (1998). Associations. In: Social Research. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14884-4_17
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