Making Secondary Data Work for You: Innovative Methods for Leveraging National Violent Death Data
A Conversation with Milan AbiNader, PhD, MSW, Laurie Graham, PhD, MSW, and Julie Kafka, PhD, MPH
Using secondary data often allows scholars to conduct robust analyses using nationally or locally representative data; yet, it can also limit the types of questions one asks due to a pre-determined set of variables. To address this tension, our team has developed innovative approaches that allow more comprehensive identification of IPV-related fatalities in a national violent death dataset. This talk will review our approach as a model—including triangulation with pre-existing variables and content analysis and natural language processing of qualitative data—and discuss extending our methods to study other understudied and non-systematically collected issues and subpopulations in secondary datasets.
Co-sponsored by the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn Injury Science Center.
Supported by the Charles C. Leighton, MD Memorial Fund.
Speakers
Millan AbiNader, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor, Social Work & Social Policy, School of Social Policy & Practice
Laurie M. Graham, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Social Work
