write a paragraph explaining how each variable was measured. age, sexdummy, marital status, educational attainment, nimber...
9. For this question, a regression model was created and run to test the effect of a respondent’s parents and/or spouse’s level of educational attainment on the respondent’s own level of educational attainment, measured in years of school completed. The output was as follows: MODEL RESULTS: R2 (adj.)= .378 F= 109.28 p< .001 Table of Coefficients: VARIABLE B Beta t p (Constant) 5.574 Father’s Highest Yr. School Completed .095 .136 2.995 .003 Mother’s Highest Yr. School Completed .104 .121 2.600...
1. Hoem (1987, International Statistical Review 55) considered the association between marital status and mortality of young German men using the below dataset. Table 1: Number of deaths and person years of German males by age and marital status Deaths Person Years Single Married Total Single Married Total 457 91,444 8,556100,000 448 86,83512,70899,543 43975,89223,203 99,095 433 63,24135,41598,656 425 52.023 46.207 98,230 413 42,12355,67597,798 400 36,91560,47097,385 392 32,215 64,770 96,985 Total 2,4859223,407 480,688 307,004 787,692 433 412 337 331 287 27242...
The marital status distribution of the U.S. male population, age 15 and older, is as shown below. Marital Status Percent never married 31.3 married 56.1 widowed 2.5 divorced/separated 10.1 Suppose that a random sample of 400 U.S. young adult males, 18 to 24 years old, yielded the following frequency distribution. We are interested in whether this age group of males fits the distribution of the U.S. adult population at the 5% level. Calculate the frequency one would expect when surveying...
The data set consists of information on 3800 full-time fll-erworkers. The highest educational achievement for each worker was either a high school diploma or a bachelors degree. The workers ages ranged from 25 to 45 years. The data set also contained information on the region of the country where the person lived, marital status, and number of children. For the purposes of these exercises, let AHEaverage hourly earnings (in 2005 dollars) Collegebinary variable (1 if college, O if high school)...
help please!!! The following table gives the number (lin millions) of men and women over the age of 24 at each level of educational attainment Did not College a Total Completed Some Gender complete high school college graduate high school Males 12.9 15.9 96.3 30.7 90.8 128 41.31037 103.7 Females 12.8 25.7 31.8 17.8 200 62.5 78.1 Total 33.7 A What is the probability that a randomly selected person over the age of 24 did not complete high school?(answer with...
Levels of measurements: Directions (Activity 2): Many variables can be measured on more than one level of measurement, depending on the circumstances. The following list contains variables that social researchers and practitioners in the human services commonly encounter. Which levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio) are applicable to each of these variables? For each variable below, give examples of how that variable can be measured on at least two levels. The first variable is done for you as...
The data set consists of information on 3700 full-time full-year workers. The highest educational achievement for each worker was either a high school diploma or a bachelor's degree. The worker's ages ranged from 25 to 45 years. The data set also contained information on the region of the country where the person lived, marital status, and number of children. For the purposes of these exercises, let AHE = average hourly earnings (in 2005 dollars) College = binary variable (1 if...
I've lost count how many times I posted this question, at least 4 or 5. Can someone please help me out 1. In her paper on measuring the returns to high school sports, Betsey Stevenson investigates the causal implications of expansion in female sports participation caused by Title IX. Compliance with Title IX can be characterized as requiring a school to raise its female athletic participation rate to near equality with its male athletic participation rate. The paper is here:...
1) This question is based on a National Vital Statistics Report from 2002 on infant mortality statistics from the linked birth/Infant death data file by a variety of maternal and infant characteristics Use Table 1 to answer the following: a) (2 points) Define infant mortality. b) (2 points) What is the total infant mortality rate for all races combined (looking for a single number, not one number for each race)? c) (4 points) How would you describe the differences in...
Write the measurement scale of each variable 1. Time it takes people to walk to school 2. People eat 5 cookies and rank them from favorite to least favorite. 3. You measure people’s height using a ruler on a wall, and later you learn the ruler was too high (so that 0 was above the floor), but you don’t know by how much. 4. Number of words remembered in a memory experiment, from a list of 20 words 5. Surname