Assignment #11
Assessing the Strength of Relationships with
Measures of Association
To complete this assignment, you will need to
use SPSS for Windows to analyze the data from the 2006 General Social Survey. (SPSS
is available in Anspach 251, at the Woldt computer lab, and in the library.) The data for the assignment are in the file
GSS2006.sav.
SPSS
Part One of assignment:
- 1. Create Table 1--the crosstabulation to test whether
men
are more likely than women to approve of ending a patient's life if a board
of directors appointed by the court agreed that the patient could not be
cured. Use the variables SEX and LETDIE1 (on row 62 in
Variable View). Percentagize to test the hypothesis.
- 2. Present the chi-square statistic to determine whether the
relationship is statistically significant.
- 3. Present the phi coefficient to determine how strong the
relationship is.
- 4. Create Table 2--the crosstabulation to determine
whether people who are opposed to premarital sex are more likely than others to
be opposed to same sex sex.
Use the variables named PREMARSX and HOMOSEX. Percentagize to test the
hypothesis.
- 5. Present the chi-square statistic to determine
whether the relationship is statistically significant.
- 6. Present the gamma statistic to determine how
strong the relationship is.
- 7. Create Table 3 which is the correlation matrix to look
simultaneously at the relationships between Father's Education, Mother's
Education, and the Respondent's Education. DO NOT RECODE. Use the
variables named PAEDUC, MAEDUC, and EDUC.
Discussion Part One of assignment:
- 8. Summarize Table 1 in words, discussing the substance of
what you learn from this analysis.
- 9. Summarize what you learn from the chi-square statistic
associated with Table 1. Is the chi-square statistically significant?
- 10. Summarize what phi tells you about the
strength of the relationship.
- 11. Summarize Table 2 in words, discussing the substance of
what you learn from this analysis.
- 12. Summarize what you learn from the chi-square statistic
associated with Table 2. Is the chi-square statistically significant?
- 13. Summarize what gamma tells you about the
strength and direction of the relationship.
- 14-16. Summarize what EACH of the correlation
coefficients tell you and the strength and direction of each of the
relationships being studied. (There should be three separate
coefficients to discuss.)
DUE BY FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 5:00 p.m.