POL3371 Short Assignment
The take-home short assignment is due by the end of February 9. Completed assignment
and relevant SPSS output, which includes a login id, have to be submitted by uploading
them as a single file or separate files in Word or pfd format to the Assignment section of
Brightspace. This assignment is individual. The textbook, notes, and Wooclap summaries
of lectures are allowed. The World Values Survey SPSS data file is available on
Brightspace.
Answer each question and provide your SPSS output that is relevant to these questions.
Use SPSS and the World Values Survey dataset and find frequency distribution tables and
appropriate measures of central tendency of the following two variables: confidence in
political parties and sex. Use cross-tabulation analysis and Chi Square test to test a
research hypothesis that confidence in political parties in Canada differs by sex.
1. What is the type of each of these variables?
- ‘Confidence in political parties’ are ordinal variable, and ‘sex’ is nominal variable.
2. What are appropriate measures of central tendency and their values for each of these
variables?
- For ‘confidence in political parties’, mode and median are the appropriate measures,
and for ‘sex’ it is mode.
3. What are the dependent and independent variables in this research hypothesis?
- The dependent variable will be ‘confidence in political parties’ and the independent
variable will be ‘sex’.
4. Is relationship between these variables statistically significant?
- Yes, the relationship between these variables is statistically significant.
5. What is the level of statistical significance (probability that relationship between two
variables can be attributed to chance)?
- The level of statistical significance is <.001
6. Do results of the cross-tabulation analysis and Chi-square test support the research
hypothesis?
- Yes, it does support the research hypothesis.
