Week 3 assignment

Assignment: Introduction to Quantitative Analysis:
Descriptive Analysis

In this Assignment, you will differentiate between the
proper use of summary statistics for categorical and continuous level data. In
this exercise, you will explore what output is provided for each of these
variables and provide some meaning from these statistics for your reader. The
ability to place the statistics into a context that your reader understands and
can make sense of is a highly desirable skill.

For this Introduction to Quantitative Analysis: Descriptive
Analysis Assignment, you will examine the same two variables you used from your
Week 2 Assignment and perform the appropriate descriptive analysis of the data
given.

To prepare for this Assignment:

Review this week’s Learning Resources and the Central
Tendency and Variability media program.

For additional support, review the Skill Builder: Visual
Displays for Categorical Variables and the Skill Builder: Visual Displays for
Continuous Variables, which you can find by navigating back to your Blackboard
Course Home Page. From there, locate the Skill Builder link in the left
navigation pane.

Using the SPSS software, open the Afrobarometer dataset or
the High School Longitudinal Study dataset from your Assignment in Week 2.

Choose the same two variables you chose from your Week 2
Assignment and perform the appropriate descriptive analysis of the data.

Once you perform your descriptive analysis, review Chapter
11 of the Wagner text to understand how to copy and paste your output into your
Word document.

Write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis of your descriptive
analysis results and include a copy and paste your output from your analysis
into your final document.

Based on the results of your data, provide a brief
explanation of what the implications for social change might be.

Use appropriate APA format, citations and referencing. Refer
to the APA manual for appropriate citation.

By Day 7

Submit your Introduction to Quantitative Analysis:
Descriptive Analysis Assignment.

Submission and Grading Information

To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading,
do the following:

Please save your Assignment using the naming convention
“WK3Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.

Click the Week 3 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading
Criteria for the Assignment.

Click the Week 3 Assignment link. You will also be able to
“View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.

Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My
Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK4Assgn+last name+first
initial.(extension)” and click Open.

If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the
checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.

Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.