Practice 1 and 2

1995 Annual Employee Survey" conducted by Office of Personnel Management that examines the working environments of federal employees. During the years 1994 through 1995, respondents were either promoted or not promoted (coding as 1 for promotion and 0 for no promotion). We would like to determine the promotion rate of survey respondents. To do so, we examine the frequency of promotion and no promotion.

Determine the following: What is the absolute frequency of people who were promoted? What is the absolute frequency of people who were not promoted? 13.17% What is the absolute frequency of people who did not complete the survey? _8.9%___ What is the absolute frequency of people who completed the survey? _91.1%___ 5. Calculate therelative frequencies (percent and valid percent) in order to complete the frequency table. 6. Calculate the cumulative frequencies. PLEASE SHOW YOUR WORK. Table A.

FREQUENCY TABLE FOR PROMOTION Statistics Promoted, 1994-95 Total Responses N Valid Missing 89 0 Promoted, 1994-95 Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent Valid NO 86.83%_ 86.83%_ 86.83%_ YES 13.17%_ 13.17%_____ Total 91.1%_ _91.1%_ Missing 89 __8.9%_ _8.9%_ Total _100%_ Practical Question: 1. What do we know about promotion rates of federal employees during 1994-95? You work for a Presidential Candidate who is trying to determine which zip codes she should target during campaign season.

You are trying to determine the relationship between gender, income, social class, age, and opinions on welfare policy, so your survey asks the following questions: Gender: What gender do you identify as? (a) Male (b) Female Income: What is your annual salary? $_ Social Class:If you were asked to use one of the three names for your social class, which would you say you belong to: (a) Lower class, (b)Middle class, or (c) Upper class? Age: Select your age bracket: (a) 18-25 (b) 26-40 (c) 41-60 (d) 61+ Opinion on Welfare Policy:Do you think government is spending too much money on welfare, too little money, or about the right amount?" Questions: 1.

Which variable listed above are ordinal-level variables? __Opinion, Social Class, _ 2. Which variables are nominal? __Gender, _ 3. Which variables are interval-level? _Income, _ 4. Which variables are dichotomous? ___Age, _ Lecture 2 Practice Asian females.