Ability to place statistics into a context.

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To prepare for this Assignment:

  • Review this week’s Learning Resources and the Central Tendency and Variability media program.
  • For additional support, review the Skill Builder: Visual Displays for Categorical Variables and the Skill Builder: Visual Displays for Continuous Variables, which you can find by navigating back to your Blackboard Course Home Page. From there, locate the Skill Builder link in the left navigation pane.
  • Using the SPSS software, open the Afrobarometer dataset or the High School Longitudinal Study dataset from your Assignment in Week 2.
  • Choose the same two variables you chose from your Week 2 Assignment and perform the appropriate descriptive analysis of the data.
  • Once you perform your descriptive analysis, review Chapter 11 of the Wagner text to understand how to copy and paste your output into your Word document.

Write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis of your descriptive analysis results and include a copy and paste your output from your analysis into your final document.

Based on the results of your data, provide a brief explanation of what the implications for social change might be.

Use appropriate APA format, citations and referencing. Refer to the APA manual for appropriate citation.

REQUIRED READINGS

Frankfort-Nachmias, C., & Leon-Guerrero, A. (2015). Social statistics for a diverse society (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Chapter 4, “Measures of Central Tendency” (pp. 96–134)
  • Chapter 5, “Measures of Variability” (pp. 135–176)
Wagner, W. E. (2016). Using IBM® SPSS® statistics for research methods and social science statistics (6th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Chapter 4, “Organization and Presentation of Information”
  • Chapter 11, “Editing Output”

DATASETS

Document: Data Set 2014 General Social Survey (dataset file)
Use this dataset to complete this week’s Discussion.
Note: You will need the SPSS software to open this dataset.
Document: Data Set Afrobarometer (dataset file)
Use this dataset to complete this week’s Assignment.
Note: You will need the SPSS software to open this dataset.
Document: High School Longitudinal Study 2009 Dataset (dataset file)
Use this dataset to complete this week’s Assignment.
Note: You will need the SPSS software to open this dataset.

REQUIRED MEDIA

Laureate Education (Producer). (2016d). Descriptive statistics [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Optional Resources

Wheelan, C. (2013). Naked statistics: Stripping the dread from data. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Skill Builder: Visual Displays for Categorical Variables
To access these Skill Builders, navigate back to your Blackboard Course Home page, and locate “Skill Builders” in the left navigation pane. From there, click on the relevant Skill Builder link for this week.

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Running head: Number of Hours Usually Work a Week

Number of Hours Usually Work a Week
Name of the student
Name of the instructor
Name of the institution
Date

1

Number of Hours Usually Work a Week

NUMBER OF HOURS USUALLY WORK A WEEK
Frequenc
y

Valid

Percent

Valid
Percent

Cumulative
Percent

0

2

.0

.2

.2

1

5

.0

.4

.6

2

1

.0

.1

.7

3

2

.0

.2

.9

4

8

.0

.7

1.6

5

6

.0

.5

2.1

6

3

.0

.3

2.4

7

4

.0

.4

2.7

8

8

.0

.7

3.5

10

12

.0

1.1

4.5

11

2

.0

.2

4.7

12

8

.0

.7

5.4

13

1

.0

.1

5.5

15

19

.0

1.7

7.2

16

4

.0

.4

7.5

17

2

.0

.2

7.7

18

3

.0

.3

8.0

20

41

.1

3.6

11.6

21

2

.0

.2

11.8

22

2

.0

.2

11.9

23

1

.0

.1

12.0

2

Number of Hours Usually Work a Week

24

18

.0

1.6

13.6

25

22

.0

1.9

15.6

26

1

.0

.1

15.7

27

1

.0

.1

15.8

28

2

.0

.2

15.9

30

42

.1

3.7

19.6

32

22

.0

1.9

21.6

33

3

.0

.3

21.9

34

3

.0

.3

22.1

35

44

.1

3.9

26.0

36

12

.0

1.1

27.1

37

7

.0

.6

27.7

38

18

.0

1.6

29.3

39

1

.0

.1

29.4

NUMBER OF HOURS USUALLY WORK A WEEK
Frequenc
y
Valid

Percent

Valid
Percent

Cumulative
Percent

40

474

.8

41.9

71.3

41

2

.0

.2

71.5

42

10

.0

.9

72.4

43

8

.0

.7

73.1

44

9

.0

.8

73.9

45

56

.1

5.0

78.8

46

3

.0

.3

79.1

3

Number of Hours Usually Work a Week

47

5

.0

.4

79.6

48

20

.0

1.8

81.3

50

84

.1

7.4

88.8

52

4

.0

.4

89.1

55

20

.0

1.8

90.9

56

6

.0

.5

91.4

57

1

.0

.1

91.5

58

2

.0

.2

91.7

60

50

.1

4.4

96.1

65

8

.0

.7

96.8

66

1

.0

.1

96.9

68

1

.0

.1

97.0

70

18

.0

1.6

98.6

72

1

.0

.1

98.7

75

3

.0

.3

98.9

80

7

.0

.6

99.6

84

1

.0

.1

99.6

89

4

.0

.4

100.0

Total

1130

1.9

100.0

IAP

58382

98.0

DK

3

.0

NA

84

.1

58469

98.1

59599

100.0

Missing
Total
Total

4

5

Number of Hours Usually Work a Week

AGE OF RESPONDENT
Frequenc
y

Valid

Percent

Valid
Percent

Cumulative
Percent

18

212

.4

.4

.4

19

802

1.3

1.4

1.7

20

844

1.4

1.4

3.1

21

954

1.6
...


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