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(Cross-tabulation - Design, 3; Analysis, 3; and Interpretation, 4) Examine the following cross-tabul

Question: (Cross-tabulation – Design, 3; Analysis, 3; and Interpretation, 4) Examine the following cross-tabulation and answer the questions listed below:

The Impact of Damages on The President's Decision to Grant a Major Disaster or Emergency
Action Type (3-Category)		Total Damages per Disaster Request in 2006$ Collapsed				Total
Action Type (3-Category)		Less than $71,166	$71,166 to $12,330,717	$12,330,717 to $163,220,892	More $163,220,892	Total
	Turndown by President, Withdrawn by Governor	59	257	247	55	618
	Turndown by President, Withdrawn by Governor	34.3%	38.6%	22.7%	10.3%	25.1%
	SBA, Emergency Declaration	81	82	86	42	291
	SBA, Emergency Declaration	47.1%	12.3%	7.9%	7.9%	11.8%
	Major Disaster Declaration	32	326	757	438	1553
	Major Disaster Declaration	18.6%	49.0%	69.4%	81.9%	63.1%
Total		172	665	1090	535	2462
Total		100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%

χ² = 418.11, p < .001; Gamma = 0.447 (Z=17.358, p<.001); Kendall’s tau-b = 0.280.

Note: The unit of analysis is the individual governor’s disaster request to the President of the United States.

a. What is the research question implied by this table? (Design)

b. What is the null hypothesis? What is the research hypothesis? (Design)

c. What are the independent (cause) and dependent (effect) variables? (Design)

d. What data collection technique appears to have been used to collect this information? (Analysis)

e. What data analysis techniques were used to analyze the data? (Analysis)

f. How would you interpret the results? What story is the table telling? How would you explain what the table means to someone else? (Interpretation)

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