Statistical Anxiety in Political Science Second Year Undergraduates: An Application of the Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale Survey

This study contains data drawn from a second year undergraduate population undertaking Political Science and International Relations degrees at the University of Birmingham in 2012/13. This is a follow-on to the pilot previously run with first year undergraduates and deposited on this dataverse. The survey used was an updated version of the Cruise, Cash and Bolton (1985) Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale survey and administered for the purpose of gaining a more in-depth knowledge of the reluctance and fear surrounding the inclusion of applied statistics courses within their degree programmes. This survey formed part of an ESRC funded curriculum innovation project entitled "Understanding Society Through Secondary Data Analysis: Quantitative Methods over the Undergraduate Life Course".