Social Statistics

The Organization and Graphic Presentation of Data Worksheet

1. Determine the level of measurement for each of the following variables:
   1. The number of people in your family: ___________________________________________________________
   2. Place of residence classified as urban, suburban, or rural: _____________________________________________
   3. The percentage of university students who attended public high school: ________________________________
   4. The rating of the overall quality of a book, on a scale from “excellent” to “poor”: __________________________
   5. The type of transportation a person takes to work (e.g., bus, car, walk): _________________________________
   6. Annual income reported in exact dollars: __________________________________________________________
   7. The U.S. unemployment rate: ___________________________________________________________________
2. Suppose you have surveyed 30 people and asked them whether they are white (W) or nonwhite (N), their social class (Lower class (L), Working class (W), Middle class (M) and Upper class (U)) and how many traumas (serious accidents, rapes, or crimes) they have experienced in the past year. Your survey resulted in the raw data presented in the table below:

a.What is the level of measurement for race?

b.What is the level of measurement for class?

c.What is the level of measurement for trauma?

d.Construct a frequency table for race:

e. Construct a frequency table for class:

f. Construct a frequency table for trauma:

3. The cross-tabulation below presents the frequency distribution for education by race based on 2010 GSS data. Use it to answer the following questions.

1. How many variables are presented in this cross tabulation? ____________________________________________
2. What is it/are they? ___________________________________________________________________________
3. What is/are the level/s of measurement? ___________________________________________________________
4. What percentage of whites completed high school or less? ___________________________________________
5. What percentage of blacks completed high school or less? ____________________________________________

4. The following table contains data on the number of violent crimes that occurred in six cities during 2012. The table also displays each city’s population. What is the rate of violent crime per 1,000 city residents in each city?