Deck 3: Frequency Tables and Univariate Charts

Question 1

What is the lowest level of measurement for which you can legitimately use a bar chart?

A) nominal
B) ordinal
C) interval/ratio

Answer 1

nominal

Question 2

You have a frequency table for the variable number of past sexual partners. The rows representing valid answers are in ascending order starting with 0 partners, then 1 partner, and so on. You want to know of the non-missing cases, what percent had 2 or fewer past sexual partners. Which column in a frequency table should you use?

A) frequency
B) percent
C) valid percent
D) cumulative percent

Answer 2

cumulative percent

Question 3

You have a frequency table for the variable religious affiliation. You want to know for which religions you have 10 or more members in your data set. Which column in a frequency table should you use?

A) frequency
B) percent
C) valid percent
D) cumulative percent

Answer 3

frequency

Question 4

Answer the question that follows this SPSS output
 
The frequency table represents the responses of 1980 GSS middle-age adults when asked to identify their social class. Which of the following statements is correct?

A) 98.1% of those who were able to answer the question were in the lower class or working class.
B) 98.1% of those who were able to answer the question were in the middle class.
C) The lower class was the smallest class.
D) Almost everyone was able and willing to answer this question.

Question 5

Which column in a frequency table should you use to find the percent of non-missing cases that gave a particular answer or a previously listed answer?

A) frequency
B) percent
C) valid percent
D) cumulative percent

Question 6

Which column in a frequency table should you use to find the percent of cases in the data set that had missing data on a variable?

A) frequency
B) percent
C) valid percent
D) cumulative percent

Question 7

"A statistic which summarizes or draws conclusions about the relationship between two or more variables" is a definition of a(n)

A) descriptive statistic
B) inferential statistic
C) multivariate statistic
D) univariate statistic

Question 8

Answer the question that follows this SPSS output:
  The frequency table represents the responses of 1980 GSS middle-age adults when asked how happy they were in their marriage. Which of the following statements is correct?

A) More than 25% of the respondents were not asked this question.
B) Of those who answered this question, 49.1% said they were very happy.
C) Of those who answered this question, 33.3% said they were pretty happy.
D) There were 212 valid answers to this question

Question 9

What is the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics?

Question 10

"A statistic which summarizes the values on one or more variables for the cases in a data set and only the cases in the data set" is a definition of a(n)

A) descriptive statistic
B) inferential statistic
C) multivariate statistic
D) univariate statistic

Question 11

"A statistic which summarizes or draws conclusions about the values on one variable" is a definition of a(n)

A) descriptive statistic
B) inferential statistic
C) multivariate statistic
D) univariate statistic

Question 12

"A statistic which draws a conclusion about a population based on data from a sample" is a definition of a(n)

A) descriptive statistic
B) inferential statistic
C) multivariate statistic
D) univariate statistic

Question 13

Answer the question that follows this SPSS output
 
This histogram presents data for the variable "number of siblings." The first bin represents persons with

A) 0 siblings
B) 1 siblings
C) 0 or 1 siblings
D) 0, 1, or 2 siblings
(Note: * indicates

Question 14

A researcher is concerned that the persons who answered a survey question that everyone should have answered are systematically different from the persons who did not answer the question. The researcher is concerned about

A) double-barreled question
B) leading question
C) reification
D) response bias

Question 15

What is the lowest level of measurement for which you can legitimately use a histogram?

A) nominal
B) ordinal
C) interval/ratio

Question 16

You have a frequency table for the variable number of past sexual partners. You want to know if more than 10% of your respondents refused to answer the question. Refusing to answer has a user-defined missing value code. Which column in a frequency table should you use?

A) frequency
B) percent
C) valid percent
D) cumulative percent

Question 17

Which column in a frequency table should you use to find the percent of non-missing cases that gave a particular answer?

A) frequency
B) percent
C) valid percent
D) cumulative percent

Question 18

Which column in a frequency table should you use to find the actual number of cases that gave a particular answer?

A) frequency
B) percent
C) valid percent
D) cumulative percent

Question 19

You have a frequency table for the variable religious affiliation. You want to know of the non-missing cases what percent were Catholics. Which column in a frequency table should you use?

A) frequency
B) percent
C) valid percent
D) cumulative percent

Question 20

What is the lowest level of measurement for which you can legitimately use a pie chart?

A) nominal
B) ordinal
C) interval/ratio

Question 21

What kinds of questions are answered with valid percents from a frequency table?

Question 22

A file has data on 600 college students. One of the variables in the data file is the brand of the first car the student owned. 300 students had never owned a car and, thus, had missing data on this variable. Of the 300 students who had owned a car, 30 said Ford was the brand of their first car. As these terms are used in an SPSS frequency table,

A) What "percent" first owned a Ford? __________
B) What "valid percent" first owned a Ford? __________

Question 23

Answer the questions that follow this SPSS output:

Certain entries in this frequency table have been replaced by letters. What numbers should appear in the table?
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Question 24

What kinds of questions are answered with cumulative percents from a frequency table?

Question 25

Answer the questions that follow this SPSS output:

Certain entries in this frequency table have been replaced by letters. What numbers should appear in the table?
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bbbb _____
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dddd _____

Question 26

What kinds of questions are answered with frequencies from a frequency table?

Question 27

Answer the question that follows this SPSS output:

Describe the marital status of the 1980 GSS middle-age adults.

Question 28

What advantages do charts have over frequency tables? What advantages do frequency tables have over charts?

Question 29

What is the difference between a bar chart and a histogram?

Question 30

Answer the questions that follow this SPSS output:

A) What is the actual number of cases with valid data for this variable?__________
B) What percent of all the cases in the data set have missing data? __________
C) What percent of all the valid cases have the value "never"? __________
D) Do the data support the claim that most persons (that means more than half) pray at least once a day? (State your conclusion and state the numerical evidence to support your conclusion.)

Question 31

What is the lowest level of measurement for which it is permissible to produce

A) A pie chart? __________
B) A bar chart? __________
C) A histogram __________

Question 32

Answer the question that follows this SPSS output:

The first bin in this histogram represents persons with _____ children up to but not including _____ children.

Question 33

What is the difference between univariate and multivariate statistics?

Question 34

Explain the difference between percents and valid percents in a frequency table.

Question 35

Answer the question that follow this SPSS output:

Describe the amount of TV watched daily by the 1980 GSS middle-age adults.

Question 36

Answer the question that follows this SPSS output:

Describe the job satisfaction of the 1980 GSS middle-age adults.

Question 37

Answer the questions that follow this SPSS output:

A) How many cases have missing data for this variable? __________
B) What percent of all the valid cases have the value Abachelor@? __________
C) Do the data support the claim that most (that means more than half) persons have more than a high school degree? (State your conclusion and state the numerical evidence to support your conclusion.)