I put together a draft guide to help people who would like to get some hands-on experience analyzing and describing survey data. The University of California at Berkeley has made the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) survey data from 1972 to 2012, along with the Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) software:
Click Here for SDA site

This is a draft guide and can be found under Tools and Guides: Check it out.

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