CRJ 640
Assignment Number Five
Fall 2005

PROBLEM ONE:
A researcher is interested in studying whether there is any difference between participants’ observed political party affiliation (partyid) and the participants’ expected political party affiliation.  The data for this analysis is located in the cjgss1.sav data file contained on the CD in the Babbie text.

Open the Data File
            Analyze
                        NonParametric Tests
                                    Chi-Square…
                                                Move the partyid variable into the “test variable list”
                                                Expected Range
                                                            Use Specified Rang
                                                                        Lower: 0
                                                                        Upper: 7
                                                Expected Values
                                                            All categories equal
                                                Options
                                                            Statistics
                                                                        Descriptives
                                                                        Continue
                                                OK

PROBLEM TWO:
An employee of the National Rifle Association (NRA) has hired you (the researcher) to determine whether there is a significant difference between how respondents in a study respond to a question concerning gun ownership in their homes (ownguns), when considering the variable gender (gender).  The data for this research has been stored on the CD accompanying the Babbie text.  The file name is cjgss1.sav.

Open the Data File
            Analyze
                        Descriptives Statistics
                                    Crosstab…
                                                Place Respondents Sex (sex) into the “rows” box
                                                Place Have Gun (owngun) into the “columns” box
                                                Statistics
                                                            Check ChiSquare
                                                            Check Contingency coefficient
                                                            Click Continue
                                                Cells
                                                            Check Observed under Counts
                                                            Check Row under Percentages
                                                            Check Column under Percentages
                                                            Check Total under Percentages
                                                            Click Continue
                                                OK