Statistics Final Paper Part I: Introduction In this final paper, the analysis will be based on a dataset

Statistics Final Paper

Part I: Introduction

In this final paper, the analysis will be based on a dataset named Education.xls. For the purpose of the analysis, the dataset will be put into SPSS format, and the file will be named Education.sav. This file contains a dataset that consists of 9 variables, and 1419 cases (not all of them are valid cases). The variables contained by this dataset are:

age: This corresponds to the age of respondent
degree: Respondent's highest degree (The categories are: 0 = Less than HS, 1 = High School, 2 = Junior College, 3 = Bachelor, 4 = Graduate)
educ: Highest year of school completed
sex: Respondent's sex (1 = Male, 2 = Female)
maeduc: Highest year school completed by mother
paeduc: Highest year school completed by father
marital: Marital status (1 = Married, 2 = Widowed, 3 = Divorced, 4 = Separated, 5 = Never married)
husbeduc: Husband's education in years
Wifeduc: wife's education in years

From the above variables, Age , Educ , Maeduc, Paeduc, Husbedcu anf Wifeduct are scale (ratio) variables. The variables Degree , Sex , and Marital are categorical variables ( Degree is ordinal, and Sex and Marital are nominal).