Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Aufschlüsselung
English translation:
breaking down
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mill2
Oct 2, 2014 12:32
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German term
Aufschlüsselung
German to English
Social Sciences
Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
In a handbook for civics teachers, in the context of a discussion of a number of studies on young people's interest in politics, the following sentence:
Die Aufschlüsselung der Daten für bestimmte Merkmale ergibt immer wieder die folgenden Zusammenhänge (siehe Tabelle).
The author goes on to describe the correlation between gender, social background, etc. and interest in politics. I translated this sentence as:
Breaking down the data according to particular characteristics consistently reveals the following relationships (see table).
But am unsure whether this is the proper formulation. Analyzing the data for particular characteristics seems like an option but doesn't get a single g*hit. Any ideas?
Die Aufschlüsselung der Daten für bestimmte Merkmale ergibt immer wieder die folgenden Zusammenhänge (siehe Tabelle).
The author goes on to describe the correlation between gender, social background, etc. and interest in politics. I translated this sentence as:
Breaking down the data according to particular characteristics consistently reveals the following relationships (see table).
But am unsure whether this is the proper formulation. Analyzing the data for particular characteristics seems like an option but doesn't get a single g*hit. Any ideas?
Proposed translations
(English)
3 +1 | Dissecting the data... | Lancashireman |
3 | analysis | billcorno (X) |
Proposed translations
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German term (edited):
Die Aufschlüsselung der Daten...
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Dissecting the data...
A less common expression
http://www.lpfi.org/dissecting-data-2012-examining-stem-oppo...
http://www.reuters.com/video/2013/08/02/job-search-dissectin...
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Note added at 26 mins (2014-10-02 12:58:46 GMT)
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To keep the idea of 'schlüssel'
Unlocking the data...
Decryption of the data...
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Note added at 1 hr (2014-10-02 13:54:53 GMT)
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OK, I can see the way this is going. Someone will presently post 'Breaking down the data' or 'Breakdown of the data' and accumulate masses of clicked agrees.
I hereby officially append such as an alternative to this answer.
http://www.lpfi.org/dissecting-data-2012-examining-stem-oppo...
http://www.reuters.com/video/2013/08/02/job-search-dissectin...
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Note added at 26 mins (2014-10-02 12:58:46 GMT)
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To keep the idea of 'schlüssel'
Unlocking the data...
Decryption of the data...
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Note added at 1 hr (2014-10-02 13:54:53 GMT)
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OK, I can see the way this is going. Someone will presently post 'Breaking down the data' or 'Breakdown of the data' and accumulate masses of clicked agrees.
I hereby officially append such as an alternative to this answer.
Peer comment(s):
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Björn Vrooman
: See discussion. Always a pleasure agreeing with you.
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Comment: "Thanks for all the discussion. I'm sticking with my original formulation in the end, except with attributes instead of characteristics!"
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analysis
The analysis of the data for certain characteristics always results in the following associations...
An optional suggestion, courtesy of Linguee.
An optional suggestion, courtesy of Linguee.
Peer comment(s):
neutral |
Lancashireman
: Asker: "Analyzing the data for particular characteristics seems like an option... Any ideas?"
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Discussion
I'd probably say analyse/analysis because that's broad enough (even a breakdown is an analysis in itself), "dissecting" - as I tried to point to below - may also be a nice option as it seems broad enough to me in its application.
Don't know what Andrew and Ramey think but I believe the problem you had with analysis had more to do with the preposition.
On a side note, the usual statistics term for "Merkmale" should be "attributes" here, not characteristics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_and_attribute_(researc...
http://www.statsoft.com/Textbook/Basic-Statistics#Breakdown: Descriptive statistics by groups
I know the original text - it refers to interest in politics. The surveys typically use two or four categories. The four categories are usually regrouped, so we may just call them YES and NO.
"Breakdowns are typically used as an exploratory data analysis technique; the typical question that this technique can help answer is very simple: Are the groups created by the independent variables different regarding the dependent variable? [...]"
Sure that's what this is about?
Example of the type of correlations the author refers to:
Interest in politics increases with age
Interest in politics seems to play a smaller role in the lives of women
However, the author also explains the results of related studies more than once throughout the paragraphs.
What you're probably looking for are cross-tabulations in frequency tables:
"Another related type of analysis that cannot be directly performed with breakdowns is comparisons of frequencies of cases (n's) between groups. [...]"
Simplest form is a 2x2 table: YES/NO - MALE/FEMALE
Lets you see the percentages.
we already have:
http://www.proz.com/?sp=gloss/term&id=246708
and
http://www.proz.com/?sp=gloss/term&id=868521
People consulting the kudoz glossary won't feel left in the lurch. :-)