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GR5010 Thesis Proposal Deliverable 3: Data Description
Instructions: Write an up to 4-page document that describes your data. The document should be typed
using 12pt Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides. Include a page
number, the assignment title (“Data Description”, in this case), and your name at the top of each page.
Please make sure that the file is named DataDescription_FirstnameLastname. Proposals should be
submitted through Canvas no later than 4PM on Wednesday, October 11.
In the previous two deliverables, you have detailed your topic and your hypothesis. If you spent
enough time drafting your hypothesis, you should have a formed idea about your specific question,
your dependent and independent variables of interest, a mechanism that describes the proposed
interaction between your dependent and independent variables, and the means to falsify your
hypothesis.
In this data description document, make sure to address the following points:
1. Spend no more than a paragraph restating your research question.
2. Spend no more than a paragraph restating your hypothesis including your dependent and
independent variables, the mechanism you are seeking to explore, and the means to
falsify it.
3. Spend at most two paragraphs explaining how you would operationalize your hypothesis
using data. In other words, how would you link your hypothesis to the data that you have.
4. Spend as much space as you need to describe your actual data, including:
• Source of your data (provide as much detail as available on it)
• Units that are measured in the dataset (what are they and when were they
measured)
• Sample size (how many observations)
• A brief description of your variables of interest in the dataset (what do they
measure and how do they measure it)
• A list of variables that are not present in the dataset but that would be good to have
• If your data involves a treatment – not all datasets do – think hard and explain the
assignment mechanism
• The estimand that you’d want to compute, and the variable(s) that you would need
to compute it
5. If you have the data handy – and it would be best to have it as soon as you can – provide
some initial descriptive statistics (i.e., mean, variance, minimum value, maximum value,
missingness) for all your variables of interest and meaningful plots of all the main variables
of interest. Figures and plots do not count towards the page limit.
6. If there was anything interesting or unexpected in the data from these explorations,
describe it as well.