Assignment 6 addendum

1. American municipalities structure their local governments in one of the following ways.

1. Mayor-Council – Elected council or board serves as the legislative body. The chief elected official is the head of government, with significant administrative authority, generally elected separately from the council.
2. Council-Manager – Elected council or board and chief elected official (e.g., mayor) are responsible for making policy with advice of the chief appointed official. A professional administrator appointed by the board or council has full responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the government.
3. Commission – Members of a board of elected commissioners serve as heads of specific departments and collectively sit as the legislative body of the government.
4. Town Meeting – Qualified voters convene to make basic policy and to choose a board of selectmen. The selectmen and elected officers carry out the policies established by the government.
5. Representative Town Meeting – Voters select citizens to represent them at the town meeting. All citizens may attend and participate in debate, but only representatives may vote.

Every five years or so the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) conducts its "Form of Government" surveys. The last time the ICMA conducted this survey they found the distribution to be as follows:

When the current survey responses were tabulated, the observed frequencies were as follows:

1. Calculate and report the frequencies the ICMA would have expected to see had nothing changed since the last survey
2. Convert the frequencies observed in the current survey into relative frequencies (in percent). Now draw a bar chart with the observed frequencies (as percentages) and the expected frequencies (as percentages). Be sure to label the x-axis and the y-axis, to title the chart, and to add a legend (if needed).
3. Setup the hypotheses to test whether the current distribution of form of government differs from that seen in the preceding survey. Carry out the hypothesis test and state your conclusion in words.

1. For this exercise use the gss2008 data. The variable owngun indicates whether or not the survey respondent said he/she owns a gun, and the variable polparty indicates the respondent’s political party preference. Answer the following questions:

1. Construct a cross-tabulation for these two variables.
2. Construct a bar chart, making sure to label the x-axis and the y-axis, a chart title, and a legend.
3. Specify the appropriate hypotheses to test for an association between political party preference and gun ownership. Now carry out the hypothesis test and state your conclusion in words (just saying reject/not reject will be insufficient).

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Solution: The downloadable solution consists of 10 pages, 659 words and 2 charts.
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