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Practice 1 and 2

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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 respond to a survey about their federal pay grade.

Respondent #

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

#10

#11

#12

#13

#14

#15

#16

Responses

3

6

9

6

4

9

11

6

14

7

4

7

12

4

11

3

Respondent #

#17

#18

#19

#20

#21

#22

#23

#24

#25

#26

#27

#28

#29

#30

#31

#32

Responses

4

11

6

12

4

6

12

7

4

10

11

4

12

12

11

12

1. Based on the information above, complete the frequency table of the 32 federal employees.

Paygrade

Frequency

Percent

Cumulative Percent

GS-3

2

6.25%

6.25%

GS-4

7

21.875%

28.125%

GS-6

5

15.625%

43.75%

GS-7

3

9.375%

53.125%

GS-9

2

6.25%

59.375%

GS-10

1

3.125%

62.5%

GS-11

5

15.625%

78.125%

GS-12

6

18.75%

96.875%

GS-14

1

3.125%

Total

32

1. Determine the descriptive statistics forfederal pay grade? You must show your work where applicable.

1. Mode: 4 Median: 7

1. Mean: 7.9375

1. Range: 11

1. For this sample of 32 federal employees, the standard deviation is 2.2.

1. 95% of this sample falls within what pay grades?

7 and 9

1. The std dev is 5.5 for another sample of Asian females who are federal employees. What does that tell us about this sample and the above sample with std dev of 2.2? This tells that the sample for the Asian females fall under lesser pay grades.

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