STA 2122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: General Social Survey, Central Tendency, Takers
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Question 1: identify the level of measurement for the variable martial status. (married, divorced, widowed, never married, etc. : nominal. Question 2: identify the level of measurement for the variable attitudes on premarital sex (premarsx). Sex before marriage is: always wrong, b) almost always wrong, c) sometimes wrong, d) not wrong at all, other , ordinal. Question 4: identify the level of measurement for the variable condition of health (excellent, good, fair, poor): ordinal. Question 5: in obtaining survey data samples (like the gss), a representative sample: requires developing a selection technique that ensures every person in the population has an equal probability of being included. The general social survey (gss) used in our social science statistics course consists of real data collected. In other words, this data includes real responses from survey takers. Question 7: when we have spss opened to data view, rows represent ____, and columns represent ____: cases; variables.
