Assignment
Students are required to conduct the following statistical analyses on the dataset provided and submit a report online via turnitin.
Write a
ief report (Word limit: 2500 words) which includes,
I. Introduction and Literature Review (An introduction to the dataset with a concise literature search relevant to your
hypothesis)
II. Methodology (Statistical methods used for the analysis)
III. Data Representation (Screenshots of Data view and Variable view in SPSS after entering data and preparation)
IV. Data analysis (Descriptive analysis and Advanced analysis)
V. Conclusions
VI. References
The dataset provided is about Social Media Usage (Facebook, Instagram & Twitter) of university students from 3 different faculties,
epresenting all four years of study and gender.
 Export the data into SPSS and do necessary preparation work before the data analysis
 Ca
y out a comprehensive descriptive analysis for the data
 Perform analysis of variance tests and identify at least one Two-way ANOVA where the interaction is significant.
 [Analysis relevant to the selected two-way ANOVA should be presented including all the supporting SPSS outputs and
interpretations. You should check for the validity of the assumptions and present with proofs, for the selected Two-way
ANOVA]
 Obtain a plot that is suitable to represent the above significant interaction graphically
 [You are required to choose an appropriate hypothesis by exploring the variables provided and suggest a title for the report
accordingly]
Description of the dataset
A dataset with 240 observations on the following variables is given:
Year - Year of study (1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year, 4th year)
Faculty - Faculty (Science-‘Sci’, Management-‘Mng’, Arts-‘Art’, Law-‘Law’)
Gender - Gender of the student (‘Male’, ‘Female’)
time_FB - Average time spent on Facebook per week (in hours)
time_INS - Average time spent on Instagram per week (in hours)
time_TW - Average time spent on Twitter per week (in hours)
usage_FB - Daily usage of Facebook
less often-‘1’ about once a day-‘2’ several times a day-‘3’
usage_INS - Daily usage of Instagram
less often-‘1’ about once a day-‘2’ several times a day-‘3’
usage_TW - Daily usage of Twitter
less often-‘1’ about once a day-‘2’ several times a day-‘3’
sc_addict - Social media addiction measured using the 6-item Bergen Social Media Addiction scale developed by Andreassen et al.
(2016) which yields a composite score from 6 to 30