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HHS 230

PRACTICE WORKSHEET for Week 09 Discussion Board – Analyzing Survey Data

PLEASE READ THE QUESTIONS CAREFULLY. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE DON’T HESITATE TO CONTACT ME
FOR OFFICE HOURS VIA E-MAIL 

1) How many participants are in this dataset?

2) How many variables are in this dataset?

3) We are interested in counting how many males and females there are in this dataset. Run the appropriate
statistic and then COPY THE OUTPUT FROM YOUR OUTPUT FILE AND PASTE IT BELOW (to do this, right click
on the table you want to copy in your output, click on copy, then right click in this Word document and
click “paste” where you want to paste it). In addition, type the correct answers below:

Males:
Females:

4) What is the average age of the individuals in this dataset? Run the appropriate statistic and then COPY THE
OUTPUT FROM YOUR OUTPUT FILE AND PASTE IT BELOW. In addition, type the correct answers below:

5) Self Esteem is a scale that is made up from 10 items (Esteem01-Esteem10). Look at the codebook and figure
out which items need to be reverse coded so that a higher score corresponds to more self-esteem. *HINT –
there are five* Write the numbers of the items that need to be reverse coded below:

6) Take a look at the response items for the Self-Esteem scale in the codebook. There are FOUR levels coded in
the following way:

Strongly Disagree 1 Disagree 2 Agree 3 Strongly Agree 4

Type below how they should be recoded in order to be reverse coded:

1=
2=
3=
4=

7) Reverse code the appropriate items from the self-esteem scale (remember to recode them into “NEW”
variables and NOT “SAME” variables), then run a reliability statistics (“chronbach’s alpha”) on the 10 items
that make up the scale (remember to use the newly recoded items plus the other 5 items that weren’t
reverse coded). COPY THE OUTPUT FROM YOUR OUTPUT FILE AND PASTE IT BELOW. In addition, type the
correct answers below:

What is the reliability coefficient (Chronbach’s Alpha)?:


Is this measure reliable?
How do you know?
Are there any items that, if deleted, would make the scale MORE reliable?
If so, what are they?

8) Now that you have run reliability statistics on the self-esteem scale, compute (make a new variable) that is a
composite scale score using the 10 appropriate items (i.e. the 5 “normal” items and the 5 “reverse-coded”
items). We want to know the average self-esteem score. Run the appropriate statistic for this newly created
variable and then COPY THE OUTPUT FROM YOUR OUTPUT FILE AND PASTE IT BELOW.

In addition, type the correct answers below:

Average Self-Esteem Score: Minimum Self-Esteem Score: Maximum Self-Esteem Score:

9) Happiness is a scale that is made up of 4 items (Happy01-Happy04). Repeat steps 5-8 above to recode the
response that need to be recoded, check reliability, compute a composite happiness score. We want to know
the average happiness score. Run the appropriate statistic for the mean of this newly created variable and
then COPY THE OUTPUT FROM YOUR OUTPUT FILE AND PASTE IT BELOW.

In addition, type the correct answers below:

Average Happiness Score: Minimum Happiness Score: Maximum Happiness Score:

10) We want to know if happiness is related to self-esteem. Run the appropriate statistic and then COPY THE
OUTPUT FROM YOUR OUTPUT FILE AND PASTE IT BELOW. In addition, type the correct answers below:

Correlation Coefficient:
P-value (Significance):
Are these two variables related in any significant way?
How do you know?

11) Create a graph that shows the nature of the correlation between happiness and self-esteem. Include a line
that shows the relationship

12) We want to know if the average level of self-esteem differs by employment status (i.e. is there a difference in
level of self-esteem between employed vs. unemployed people?). Run the appropriate statistic and then
COPY THE OUTPUT FROM YOUR OUTPUT FILE AND PASTE IT BELOW. In addition, type the correct answers
below:

Average level of self-esteem for employed people:


Average level of self-esteem for UNemployed people:
Is there a significant difference between these groups on average level of self-esteem?
How do you know?

13) We want to know if men and women are equally likely to be employed. That is, we want to know if the
counts of women are roughly the same of counts as men in the unemployed group and the employed group.
Run the appropriate statistic and then COPY THE OUTPUT FROM YOUR OUTPUT FILE AND PASTE IT BELOW.
In addition, type the correct answers below:

Employed Unemployed
Males
Females

Is there a significant difference in the proportion of men vs. women in the unemployed and employed
groups?

If there is a difference, describe in a sentence what the pattern of proportion is:

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