Sociology departments spend at least one semester course teaching resarch design, including size -- and quality, apporpriateness -- of data set. Wisconsin has a first rate soc dept. Anything less is as if I walked into an English dept and asked how to do lit crit in 30 minutes For other matters of appropraite size, consult your spam filter;-) Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________