Research Design
Setting
The settings in which this data was collected were vocational rehabilitation centers in each state in the United States. Each year, service providers are required to enter data into a national database regarding individuals who have exited vocational rehabilitation programs under their care. This data is organized into a national dataset, which contains each exiting participant. Exits are interchangeably described as “closures” and fall into seven different closure categories. This data is organized into 43 different variables. This data can be requested by individuals, and was provided to the researcher in SPSS format on a CD-ROM in June of 2014.
Confidentiality The data set used was a secondary data set, so none …show more content…
This data set, which contains 43 variables across all participants, is available to researchers upon request. The primary investigator asked the United States Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services for this data and signed the required agreements in June of 2014.
The data will placed into an Excel file, and any individuals without a closure of 3 or 4 will be excluded from the study. Any categories outside of age, occupational status, hours worked, wages earned, will be excluded from the analyses and taken out of the Excel file. After these categories are separated, the data will be placed in an SPSS file so that they can be statistically analyzed.
To ensure the validity, outcomes will be assessed more than once by the principal investigator, to ensure that these variables are accurately calculated. This will be done by comparing results from the same population twice. An independent observer will also complete the abovementioned steps and results will be compared. Any disagreements will be discussed and subsequently rectified.
Data
Setting
The settings in which this data was collected were vocational rehabilitation centers in each state in the United States. Each year, service providers are required to enter data into a national database regarding individuals who have exited vocational rehabilitation programs under their care. This data is organized into a national dataset, which contains each exiting participant. Exits are interchangeably described as “closures” and fall into seven different closure categories. This data is organized into 43 different variables. This data can be requested by individuals, and was provided to the researcher in SPSS format on a CD-ROM in June of 2014.
Confidentiality The data set used was a secondary data set, so none …show more content…
This data set, which contains 43 variables across all participants, is available to researchers upon request. The primary investigator asked the United States Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services for this data and signed the required agreements in June of 2014.
The data will placed into an Excel file, and any individuals without a closure of 3 or 4 will be excluded from the study. Any categories outside of age, occupational status, hours worked, wages earned, will be excluded from the analyses and taken out of the Excel file. After these categories are separated, the data will be placed in an SPSS file so that they can be statistically analyzed.
To ensure the validity, outcomes will be assessed more than once by the principal investigator, to ensure that these variables are accurately calculated. This will be done by comparing results from the same population twice. An independent observer will also complete the abovementioned steps and results will be compared. Any disagreements will be discussed and subsequently rectified.
Data