Contains 107 variables for the 50 States. Variables are drawn from dozens of sources including the U.S. Census, the Uniform Crime Reports, Statistical Abstracts, and others. Contains 61 variables for the 50 largest nations in the world. Included are data on population growth, education, labor, religion, media usage, and much more. A network version of the Student MicroCase software is also available free to instructors.
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I like it because students spend more time on statistical interpretation, rather than on learning how to run an analysis program. My students like it because the software is fun to use and they have no trouble doing their computer laboratory exercises. Fox gets students to the appropriate level of abstraction by focusing on the presentation and interpretation of data, rather than lots of hand calculations. The text is very readable, the graphics are good, and I think a strength of this approach is that it will teach statistics while reducing students' computer phobia. This is not a passive statistics book.