A researcher conducts a survey of state prisons to determine how much time it takes officials to process newly admitted inmates into the prison system. What is the researcher's unit of analysis?

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The unit of analysis is the object or level that is being studied in the research. In this case, the research is being conducted on state prisons to determine how much time it takes officials to process newly admitted inmates into the prison system, hence state prisons is the unit of analysis.

A Researcher Conducts a Survey of State Prisons to Determine