ADV 581 First SPSS Assignment
ADV 581 First SPSS Assignment
ADV 581 First SPSS Assignment
DUE: 5pm, November 18
50 points
- Answer each question and provide the syntax that you used to get the answer. (15 points)
HINT: Use the FREQUENCIES command.
- What is the percentage of female respondents in the dataset? (Q40, sex)
HINT: Female is already coded as high (‘1’) while male is coded as low (‘0’)
HINT: % of Female and % of male should add up to 100%.
ANSWER: ____ %
SYNTAX:
- What is the percentage of respondents who identify their party affiliation as Independents? Exclude respondents who answer Other or DK/NA. (Q32, partyid)
ADV 581 First SPSS Assignment
HINT: Recode Other ([4]) and DK/NA ([9]) as missing values first.
HINT: % of Republican, Democratic, and Independents should add up to 100%.
ANSWER: ___________ %
SYNTAX:
- What is the average and standard deviation of the time that the respondents have lived in the Ithaca area? And what is the distribution? (Q20a, lvlength)
ANSWER: Mean = ___________; S.D. = _____________
DISTRIBUTION (Directly copy and paste the histogram from the SPSS Output)
ADV 581 First SPSS Assignment
SYNTAX:
- Describe the percentage of respondents in the dataset who identify their social ideology (Q34; ideosoc) as liberal, moderate, and conservative (i.e., Recode the original seven points to three points; Recode DK/NA as missing values) (5 points)
HINT: Use RECODE and FREQUENCIES commands.
HINT: % of Liberal, Moderate, and Conservative should add up to 100%.
ANSWER: Liberal: _____________%
Moderate: ___________%
Conservative: ________%
ADV 581 First SPSS Assignment
SYNTAX:
ADV 581 First SPSS Assignment
- Perform the correlation test to examine the following research hypothesis:
Research hypothesis: Individuals’ economic ideology (Q33; ideoeco) is positively related to their social ideology (Q34; ideosoc) (15 points)
HINT: Check the two variables first and recode [9] DK/NA into sysmis first.
Q: What’s the Pearson’s r coefficient and the significance level? If the alpha-value is set as .001, is the result significant?
ANSWER: Pearson’s r: _______________
p-value: __________________
Significant: __________ (Yes or No)
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Q: Do you reject or fail to reject your null hypothesis? Why?
HINT: Use the results of the correlation test
ANSWER:
SYNTAX of your correlation test command:
- Answer the following two questions related to party affiliation (Q32; partyid) and intention to vote (Q13a; vote) (15 points)
HINT: For partyid, recode Other ([4]) and DK/NA ([9]) responses as missing values first.
HINT: For vote, recode DK/NA ([9]) as missing values first.
Research Question 1: What’s the proportion of Democratic respondents who say they would vote? (1 point)
ANSWER:
Research Question 2: Is there a significant association between party affiliation and intention to vote? (Use the alpha level of .001) You should also report the results of the chi-square test. (2 points)
ANSWER:
SYNTAX of your crosstabs and chi-square test command: