This project requires that you raise and investigate a sociologically meaningful research question using GSS, SPSS, and the statistical techniques you’ve learned this semester. Your paper should include a clear statement of a research question, the statistical procedures you used to investigate the question, your findings, and an interpretation of your findings. Your final report must include:

1. An introduction that contains

1. A clearly stated research question (and its sociological relevance or importance)
2. The data source you used to investigate your question (e.g. who collected the data? How was the sample drawn? How were the data collected? What were the parameters of the population? How large is the data set? If you are not using the data set in its entirety, how did you pare the sample down? If you threw out cases, or selected a subsample, on what grounds and with what procedures did you do this?)
3. The primary dependent variable on which your analysis focuses (the dependent variable must be either interval- or ordinal-level).
4. The other variables considered in your analysis – the variables you believe may be related to the variation in your dependent variable. Be sure to state how these independent variables are measured.

(2) Description of the patterns and variation in your dependent variable (e.g. mean, median, mode, standard deviation, range, frequency distribution, etc.). Present your results in both written form, tables, and graphs, as appropriate.

(3) A description and test of relationships between your dependent variable and other variables. In other words, explain some of the causes of variation in your dependent variable. Use the appropriate statistical techniques to describe the relationships between your dependent variable and at least three other variables and test those relationships for statistical significance. (For example, you might compare means for two or more different groups using a t-test or analysis of variance. You might use crosstabulations, correlations, or linear regression.) You will need to use different statistics depending on the level of measurement of your independent variables. Present your results in both narrative form and tables and graphs.

(4) Conclusion: What can you conclude about the causes of variation in your dependent variable? In other words, how would you answer your original research question? Have your hypotheses been supported? What other questions emerge from your research? Are there additional variables for which you would like to have data?

Price: $21.65

Solution: The downloadable solution consists of 15 pages, 665 words and 16 charts.
Deliverable: Word Document