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Soc 221: Statistics for Sociologists, Spring 2022, 8W1
Homework 6 (Due Friday, Mar 4, by 11:59)
Part 1
1. You are interested in learning more about people’s attitudes towards cohabitation.
id Education
Approve of
cohabitation id Education
Approve of
cohabitation
1 HS or more Yes 16 HS or more No
2 HS or more No 17 HS or more Yes
3 HS or more Yes 18 Less than HS Yes
4 HS or more Yes 19 Less than HS Yes
5 Less than HS No 20 HS or more Yes
6 HS or more Yes 21 Less than HS No
7 HS or more Yes 22 HS or more Yes
8 HS or more Yes 23 Less than HS Yes
9 Less than HS No 24 HS or more Yes
10 HS or more Yes 25 HS or more Yes
11 HS or more No 26 Less than HS No
12 HS or more Yes 27 Less than HS No
13 HS or more Yes 28 HS or more Yes
14 HS or more No 29 HS or more No
15 Less than HS Yes 30 Less than HS Yes
a) Use the data above to construct a bivariate table and explore if there is an
association between one’s education and attitudes toward cohabitation. Is there an
association? Describe the pattern of association.
) Assuming that this is a random sample, test a hypothesis (use α = 0.01) that there is
an association between one’s education and attitudes toward cohabitation in the
population. Show all your work (state the hypotheses, find the critical value, compute
the test statistics, state a conclusion) and write one sentence summarizing the results.
(Extra-credit: find the p-value).
c) Is this association weak, moderate or strong? Compute and interpret the appropriate
statistic.
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2. Use the bivariate table below to answer the following questions.
a) What is the dependent (response, outcome) variable?
) What is the independent (explanatory) variable?
c) Describe the pattern of association between subjective class and satisfaction with
financial situation.
Part 2
1. Use GSS2016.sav data. Is there an association between race (RACE) and subjective
neighborhood safety (FEAR)?
a) Copy and paste a bivariate table with the observed frequencies and column percentages.
Based on the percentages in the table, is there an association? Describe the pattern of
association.
) Is the association significant in the population? Formulate the hypotheses, copy and paste
the chi-square test output table and write the conclusion (use α = 0.05).
c) Is the association weak, moderate or strong? Copy and paste the output table showing Phi
and Cramer’s V to support your answer.
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2. Use GSS2016.sav data. Is there an association between gender (SEX) and the use of
computers (COMPUSE)?
a) Copy and paste a bivariate table with the observed frequencies and column percentages.
Based on the percentages in the table, is there an association? Describe the pattern of
association.
) Is the association significant in the population? Formulate the hypotheses, copy and paste
the chi-square test output table and write the conclusion (use α = 0.05).
c) Is the association weak, moderate or strong? Copy and paste the output table showing Phi
and Cramer’s V to support your answer.
3. Use GSS2016.sav data. Is there an association between subjective social class (CLASS)
and self-rated health (HEALTH)?
a) Copy and paste a bivariate table with the observed frequencies and column percentages.
Based on the percentages in the table, is there an association? Describe the pattern of
association.
) Is the association significant in the population? Formulate the hypotheses, copy and paste
the chi-square test output table and write the conclusion (use α = 0.01).
c) Is the association weak, moderate or strong? Copy and paste the output table showing Phi
and Cramer’s V to support your answer.