Assignment #2: Descriptive Statistics For this assignment you should have the following: - An electronic
Assignment #2: Descriptive Statistics
For this assignment you should have the following:
- An electronic SPSS file containing the dataset labeled: "assignment 2 data" (available on D2L)
FROM BEFORE:
- Access to a recent version of SPSS
- A copy of the original questionnaire entitled "1999 Resource Attitudes in Michigan Survey" (handed out in class)
- The codebook for "assignment 2 data" (below). The dataset contains data for the questions on pages 4-5 and 10-11 of the 1999 RAM survey. For a description of the methodology for this survey, see the file on D2L labeled "Methods for the 1999 RAM survey."
Using the file "assignment 2 data.sav" do the following:
- Run appropriate univariate analyses for each of the variables in the dataset. This will include frequencies/percentages, measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion.
- You will need to compute an "age" variable using "yearborn."
- Make sure the ordinal variables are ordered correctly for analysis (this may require defining some values as missing).
2) Create graphs in SPSS for the following variables:
- Huntresp, neverkil, numaccid, miyears, currlive, miprop, acres1, children, educate, sex, age and income.
3) Run analyses of skewness and kurtosis for the following variables:
- Numaccid, miyears, acres1, children and age.
4) Write a brief description of each variable's distribution using all of the appropriate information from the analyses above.
- Include a description of the graph/chart for those variables for which a graph/chart was requested (in #2 above).
- Include a description of skewness and kurtosis for those variables analyzed in # 3 above.
Solution:

Deliverable: Word Document
