RSCH 8210: Quantitative Reasoning
Module 1
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WK1AssgnSessionWillisB.docx Variables, Measurement, and SPSS RSCH 8210: Quantitative Reasoning Module 1 14:03:25 GMT -05:00 Variables, Measurement, and SPSS For this assignment, the researcher analyzed the Afrobarometer dataset. To identify the mean of Q1 (Age), the researcher set SPSS to Variable View, selected Q1, and ran the descriptive statistics. The results displayed the mean of Q1 (Age) as 37.17. In this dataset, the researcher chose the variables Q101 (Gender of respondents) and Q8c (How often gone without medical care). Frankfort-Nachmias et al. (2020) describe a unit of analysis as the phenomenon being examined in the research. For the Afrobarometer dataset, the unit of analysis is the population answering the questions over Africa's social, economic, and political issues. Frankfort-Nachmias et al. (2020) describe three levels of measurement for variables: nominal, ordinal, and interval-ratio. T
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