While I fully enjoy writing the qualitative part of my thesis, yesterday morning, I find it difficult to do quantitative analysis. I do not think in numbers but my adviser and my friend Margaret have always been patient in teaching me the rudiments of social statistics since 2002. Amongst the many multivariate analytical techniques, I find analysis of nominal data more useful in my sociological practice. So over these years, I laboured on reading articles particularly on correspondence analysis and logistic regressions. However, I did not expect that one day I will find myself enjoying this laborious task of crunching numbers.
Yesterday, I was so pleased thinking about my variables of interest, cross-tabulating, checking out the correlations and finally, producing three models for my multinomial regression. Now, I finally understood the meaning of the numbers as they behave in ways that suffice my expectations and confirm some of the underlying dynamics of my istambay thesis. Here, my quantitative analysis is speaking directly to my case studies producing a more solid description of youth inactivity in the Philippines.
This is turning-out to be a more meaningful academic exercise.
