SOCIOL 212AQuantitative Data Analysis
Sociology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Course 212A is enforced requisite to 212B. Analysis and interpretation of primarily nonexperimental quantitative data, with focus on sample survey and census data. Extensive practice at utilizing statistical methods encountered in previous courses, culminating in term paper proposal in style of American Sociological Review or similar journal article. Topics include simple tabular analysis, correlation, log-linear analysis, ordinary least squares regression, regression with interactions, robust regression, diagnostic procedures, and methods for handling complex sample survey designs.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 210A, 210B.
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SOCIOL 212A
- SOCIOL 210AIntermediate Statistical Methods I
- SOCIOL 210BIntermediate Statistical Methods II
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
SOCIOL 212A
- SOCIOL 212BQuantitative Data Analysis
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.