September 2017
Beginner to intermediate
446 pages
9h 17m
English
In addition to providing a quick overview of a dataset, descriptives can be used to focus on a set of related questions to compare them and set the stage for deeper analysis of them as a group. The General Social Survey includes a set of questions dealing with problems facing the United States and asks people to indicate whether the nation is spending too much money on the problem, too little, or the right amount. A response of too little is coded as 1, a response of about right is coded as 2, and a response of too much is coded as 3 in the dataset. To obtain a quick comparison of how some of these questions about national problems were rated in the 2016 survey, use the following menus:
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