conduct a frequency analysis on the gender and marital status variables.

The questions in Part B require that you access data from Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh. This data is available on the student website under the Student Text Resources link.

The data sets for problems 5 and 6 can be found through the Pearson Materials in the Student Textbook Resource Access link, listed under Academic Resources. The data is listedin thedata file named Lesson 20 Exercise File 1. Answer Exercises 5 and 6based on the following research problem:

Ann wants to describe the demographic characteristics of a sample of 25 individuals who completed a large-scale survey. She has demographic data on the participants’ gender (two categories), educational level (four categories), marital status (three categories), and community population size (eight categories).

  1. Using IBM®SPSS® software, conduct a frequency analysis on the gender and marital status variables. From the output, identify the following: 
  1. Percent of men
  2. Mode for marital status
  3. Frequency of divorced people in the sample 
  1. Using IBM®SPSS®software, create a frequency table to summarize the data on the educational level variable.Copy and paste the output from IBM® SPSS® into this worksheet. 
  2. The data set for this problem can be found through the Pearson Materials in the Student Textbook Resource Access link, listed under Academic Resources. The data is listed in the data file named Lesson 21 Exercise File 1.David collects anxiety scores from 15 college students who visit the university health center during finals week. Compute descriptive statistics on the anxiety scores. From the output, identify the following: 
  1. Skewness
  2. Mean
  3. Standard deviation
  4. Kurtosis

 

From Green &Salkind (2011). Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education. All Rights Reserved. Adapted with permission.

 
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