This assignment involves secondary data analysis using SPSS for Windows. You will be using a data set from the 2004 General Social Survey (GSS). This data set contains data on 37 variables from a random sample of approximately 1,500 individuals. A complete codebook is available with the data set or in the Appendix to Joseph Healy’s text: STATISTICS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH (first Canadian edition), and at the website for that text ; www.healeystatistics.nelson.com

The GSS data set can be found on the WEBCT site for this course, and is also available from the Healey website; if you’re using the healey site, be sure that you click on the 2004 data set! .

Each time you start your SPSS session, be sure that the command syntax is set to display.

You are to eliminate people who stated that they were over 65 years of age .

1. Using the variables marstat, SEX, discrim, RELIG6 plus 3 variables of your choice; run appropriate measures of central tendency and dispersion, and graphs for each. Each of the 3 variables you select must be at a different level of measurement.
2. Create a bivariate table for the variables hlthstat and edu10. Present the expected frequencies and column percentages in the table. Generate the appropriate statistics.
3. Choose the following 3 variables (msvic, phr_q260, and phr_q990) and produce bivariate tables for each variable with the SEX variable. Present the expected frequencies and column percentages in the table. Generate the appropriate statistics.
   4 (a) Recode the incmhsd variable into a new variable called NEWinc with two categories:
   1. less than $50,000/year, and 2)1$50,000 or more/year. Provide appropriate variable and value labels for the new variable. Obtain a frequency distribution for the NEWinc variable.

(b) Obtain a frequency table for the NEWinc variable for respondents who are FEMALE..

5. Create a variable called SES by combining the variables edu10, NEWinc, acmyr and hlthstat Obtain a frequency distribution for the SES variable.

6. Test for a statistically significant difference between males and females regarding the amount of alcohol consumed (drr_q110). . Test for a statistically significant difference between males and females regarding SESS

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