Data Analysis of the AsiaBarometer Survey : Methodological Discussions and Exploratory Data Analysis

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The third wave of the AsiaBarometer Survey was conducted in the following 14 countries in south and central Asia in 2005: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. This article examines the data from three countries in each of the two regions surveyed: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Uzbekistan. This article also uses three techniques of Facet Analysis developed by L. Guttman, that is, Partial Order Scalogram Analysis (POSA), Smallest Space Analysis (SSA) and Median Regression Analysis. I have characterized the current effort as an "exploratory data analysis," and have selected these methods because they are particularly effective for such an effort. The first section of this paper deals with the methodological advantages and problems of the AsiaBarometer Survey as a large scale multi-national comparative survey. The second section presents exploratory data analyses using Facet Analysis as follows: 1. POSA: Analysis of Public Utilities (Electricity, Water and Gas) 2. Smallest Space Analysis: Analysis of Well-Being, Trust and Political Attitudes 3. Median Regression Analysis: An Analysis of the Relationship between Political Attitudes and Political Behaviors, and Objective and Subjective Indicators of well-being By focusing on the methodological advantages and disadvantages of the AsiaBarometer Survey based on its characteristics as a cross-national/cross-cultural survey, this paper has made several attempts at exploratory data analysis for the purpose of pointing out the significance of the survey, suggesting possible directions for data analysis, and establishing a starting point for future data analysis efforts. This paper also makes a suggestion about data analysis attempts from other perspectives, that is, that the AsiaBarometer Survey be used to examine hypotheses that have been deductively derived from theories developed in different disciplines, such as political science, sociology, and psychology. The AsiaBarometer Survey has a great deal of latent potential in this regard. Making the data available to the public is likely to encourage researchers in a wide variety of fields to use that data in examining their various theoretical hypotheses.
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真鍋一史
関西学院大学社会学部

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