SOC 3100 CSULA Income and Education Correlation SPSS Analysis

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You are investigating how one’s income is affected by one’s education, number of children, sex, marital status, and how happy one is. The SPSS variables to use are as following:

RINCOM98 = income

EDUC = education

CHILDS = number of children

SEX = sex

MARITAL = marital status

HAPPY = general happiness

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SOC3100 Intermediate Statistics Pearson Correlation Analysis --- Homework (SPSS Analysis) Your Name: ______________________________ You are investigating how one’s income is affected by one’s education, number of children, sex, marital status, and how happy one is. The SPSS variables to use are as following: RINCOM98 = income EDUC = education CHILDS = number of children SEX = sex MARITAL = marital status HAPPY = general happiness Use the GSS2000_Pearson Correlation_Homework data. [PROBLEM 1] Relationship between Income and Education (1) Analyze the relationship between Income and Education. Cut and Paste the SPSS Output below. [4 Points] (2) Interpret the findings. How does education affects income? [2 POINTS] [PROBLEM 2] Relationship between Income and Multiple Independent Variables. Now you are analyzing the effects of all independent variables above simultaneously. One of the independent variables above [MARITAL] is multinomial, which we cannot use for Pearson Correlation Analysis. So clean this variable by creating the following dichotomous variables: A. MARRIED (coded 1 for Married; 0 for all other marital statuses) (label: Married) B. WDS (coded 1 for Widowed, Divorced, Seperated; 0 for all other marital statuses) (label: Widowed, Divorced, Seperated) (3) Now run another Pearson Correlation Analysis while including all the independent variables. Cut and paste the Pearson Correlation matrix below. [10 POINTS] (4) Interpret the findings about the effect of CHILDS on Income. [2 POINTS] (5) Interpret the findings about the effect of SEX on Income. [2 POINTS] (6) Interpret the findings about the effect of MARRIED on income. [2 POINTS] (7) Interpret the findings about the effect of WDS on income. [2 POINTS] (8) Interpret the findings about the effect of HAPPY on income. [4 POINTS]
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Running head: SOC3100 Intermediate Statistic

Pearson Correlation Analysis – Homework:
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SOC3100 Intermediate Statistic

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[PROBLEM 1] Relationship between Income and Education
(1) Analyze the relationship between Income and Education. Cut and Paste the SPSS Output
below. [4 Points]
Correlations

RESPONDENTS
INCOME

Pearson Correlation
Sig. (2-tailed)

RESPONDENTS
INCOME
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N
HIGHEST YEAR OF Pearson Correlation
SCHOOL
Sig. (2-tailed)
COMPLETED
N
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

HIGHEST YEAR OF
SCHOOL
COMPLETED
.338**
.000

1818
.338**
.000
1816

1816
1
2808

(2) Interpret the findings. How education does affects income? [2 POINTS]
Firstly, since the P-value obtained is less than the significance level, it implies that one’s
education has a significant effect on their income. Additi...


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