POL 3371 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ordinal Data, World Values Survey, Pie Chart
13 Feb 2014
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Questions: multiple choice (theoretical different types of variables, spss based (chi-square, crosstab) Based on content of the first half of the course. Concepts: ideas or constructs that represent real world phenomena. Variables: provide measurement of concepts (spss - different values. Ex: democratic = 1, non- democratic = 2: types of variables, nominal - variable that cannot be ranked higher to lower in contrast to other variables. Ex: gender, political party affiliation, etc: ordinal - variable we can rank/order along some dimension but cannot find the average value. Ex: education (high school, university, post-graduate), socioeconomic status (high, medium, low: interval-ratio - variable we can rank/ordered with equal distances between values. Spss data editor mode used for viewing, entering and editing data. Data view enter variable 1 [v1] name. Go to variable view, under values (appropriate a value to each label) ex: 1 = female, 2 = male, 9999 = na (missing value)
