WU Central Tendency and Variability Media Program Question

For this Introduction to Quantitative Analysis: Descriptive Analysis Assignment, you will examine the same two variables you used from your Week 2 Assignment and perform the appropriate descriptive analysis of the data given.

To prepare for this Assignment:

Review this week’s Learning Resources and the Central Tendency and Variability media program.

For additional support, review the Skill Builder: Measures of Central Tendency for Continuous Variables, Skill Builder: Standard Deviation as a Measure of Variability for Continuous Variables and the Skill Builder: Measures of Central Tendency and Variability for Categorical Variables, which you can find by navigating back to your Blackboard Course Home Page. From there, locate the Skill Builder link in the left navigation pane.

Using the SPSS software, open the Afrobarometer dataset or the High School Longitudinal Study dataset from your Assignment in Week 2.

• Choose the same two variables you chose from your Week 2 Assignment and perform the appropriate descriptive analysis of the data.

Once you perform your descriptive analysis, review Chapter 11 of the Wagner text to understand how to copy and paste your output into your Word document.

• Write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis of your descriptive analysis results and include a copy and paste your output from your analysis into your final document.

Based on the results of your data, provide a brief explanation of what the implications for social change might be. Early in your Assignment, when you relate which dataset you analyzed, please include the mean of the following variables. If you are using the Afrobarometer Dataset, report the mean of Q1 (Age). If you are using the HS Long Survey Dataset, report the mean of X1SES.

Use appropriate APA format, citations and referencing. Refer to the APA manual for appropriate citation.

From professor

• SPSS Assignment: Introduction to Quantitative Analysis – Descriptive Analysis
• This week you will continue to work with SAME 2 variables you used in Week 2 from the same data set, either the Afrobarometer or HSLS data set. One should be categorical (identified as nominal in the SPSS data set) the other one should be continuous (identified as scale in the SPSS data set). 
• Ensure that the statistics you compute and report are appropriate for the measurement level of your variables. Be very careful in your selection of appropriate statistics. Consider which is the most appropriate choice based on the level of measurement and other features of the data, such as outliers or the shape of the data from the graphs you created last week.

First describe your continuous variable and then your categorical variable. Report all of the information that is requested in the instructions. Restrict your writing to two paragraphs – one for each variable. 

Insert the output from SPSS following each paragraph. Only include relevant output!