Project Report 4: Exploring national values through bivariate analyses Project Report 4: Exploring national values through bivariate analyses Name Institutional Affiliation Course Name Professor’s Name Date 1 Project Report 4: Exploring national values through bivariate analyses 2 PART ONE: CROSS TABULATION and CHI-SQUARE Introduction and descriptive statistics For this part, a cross tabulation and chi-square analysis was conducted to find if there was a significant association between a dependent and an independent variable. From the General Social Survey dataset, the independent categorical variable chosen was “SATFIN”. This variable represented the respondent’s satisfaction with financial situation. It was categorized into three groups (“pretty satisfied”, “more or less” and “not at all”) with its level of measurement being ordinal. The dependent variable selected was “Happy”. This variable represented the respondent’s general happiness. It was grouped into three (“very happy”, “pretty happy” and “not too happy”) with its level of measurement being ordinal. The table below provides the number of observations (n), means and standard deviations for both the variables; “SATFIN” and “HAPPY”. Statistics Respondent satisfaction with financial situation n Mean Std. Deviation Respondent general happiness 698 1.94 698 1.81 .725 .616 From the sample mean values obtained above, it was observed that the larger US population m ...
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