A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.1, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents' sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question "On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?"
Figure 5.1

-Excluding the nonvalid response categories the variable DEMTODAY has _____ valid response categories.
A) 9
B) 10
C) 11
D) 12

Question

A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.1, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents' sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question "On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?"
Figure 5.1
 
-Excluding the nonvalid response categories the variable DEMTODAY has _____ valid response categories.
A) 9 
B) 10 
C) 11 
D) 12

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The variable DEMTODAY has 11 valid response categories when nonvalid responses are excluded.

A Researcher Is Interested to Know Whether People of Different