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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises in An IBM SPSS Companion to Political Analysis, Sixth Edition By Philip H. Pollock II and Barry C. Edwards Solutions to Exercises in Page Getting Started (No exercises) 2 Chapter 1: Introduction to SPSS 3 Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics 6 Chapter 3: Transforming Variables 20 Chapter 4: Making Comparisons 24 Chapter 5: Making Controlled Comparisons 37 Chapter 6: Making Inferences about Sample Means 48 Chapter 7: Chi - Square and Measures of Association 51 Chapter 8: Correlation and Linear Regression 57 Chapter 9 : Dummy Variables and Interaction Effects 66 Chapter 10 : Logistic Regression 74 Chapter 11: Doing Your Own Political Analysis 8 3 Version 1.3 , Last Updated May 8, 2019

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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises , SPSS Companion, Sixth Edition 3 Chapter 1: Introduction to SPSS 1. A. 26 $170,000 or over B. 0 Never 2. Display names Alphabetical 3. A. General Happiness B. 1 4. A. General Happiness Frequency Percent age Valid percent age Cumulative percent age Valid VERY HAPPY 869 30.3 30.4 30.4 PRETTY HAPPY 1579 55.1 55.2 85.6 NOT TOO HAPPY 411 14.3 14.4 100.0 Total 2859 99.7 100.0 Missing System 8 .3 Total 2867 100.0

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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises , SPSS Companion, Sixth Edition 4 B. Word - formatted table looks something like this: General Happiness Frequency Percent age Cumulative Very Happy 869 30.4 30.4 Pretty Happy 1579 55.2 85.6 Not Too Happy 411 14.4 100.0 Total 2859 100.0 Syntax for solution * with GSS dataset FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=happy /ORDER=ANALYSIS. 5 . SPSS file type File name extension Dataset .sav Output .spv Syntax .sps 6 . A. hs_yrs_ss B. vep16_turnout C. attend_pct D. volunteer_percent

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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises , SPSS Companion, Sixth Edition 5 7 . NES variable “marital” Numeric code Value label 1 Married, spouse present 2 Married, spouse absent (volunteered) 3 Widowed 4 Divorced 5 Separated 6 Never married 8 . Here are the variable descriptions in the Appendix. Students were asked to describe these variables in “their own words” so their wording should vary without c hanging the essential meaning. A. Total fertility rate: Number children born per woman (CIA) B. Percentage of population aged 15 – 49 with HIV. From World Economic Forum C. Number infants dying before age one per 1,000 live births. From World Bank ’ s World Development Indicators D. Public expenditure on health as a percentage of GDP (UN) E. Age - standardized death rates from non - communicable diseases per 100,000 people (UN)

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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises , SPSS Companion, Sixth Edition 6 Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics 1. A. science_quiz score Freq uency * Percent age Cumulative percentage 0 2 .4 .4 1 9 2.0 2.4 2 13 2.9 5.3 3 38 8.2 13.4 4 54 11.6 25.1 5 66 14.2 39.2 6 80 17.1 56.3 7 78 16.8 73.1 8 60 12.9 86.0 9 45 9.6 95.6 10 21 4.4 100.0 Total 465 100.0 B. The science_quiz variable has a mean equal to 6.03 , a median equal to 6 , and a skewness equal to – 0.23 . C.

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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises , SPSS Companion, Sixth Edition 7 D. Either answer is correct. The mean (6.03) and median (6) are almost the same so either measure of central tendency will work. E. The median is a good measure of central tendency in this case between the observations are negatively skewed. The mean is attractive because the science quiz is an interval level variable. F. About 60% of people got passing grades on science_quiz. About 15% got an A on the science quiz . Syntax for solution * with GSS dataset FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=science_quiz /STATISTICS=MEAN MEDIAN SKEWNESS SESKEW /BARCHART FREQ /ORDER=ANALYSIS. 2 . A. Statistics for women13 variable

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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises , SPSS Companion, Sixth Edition 8 Mean 21.10 Median 20.8 Skewness 0.48 B. No. 17.8 % women in the legislature is below average for a democracy. According to the summary statistics, the world mean is 21.10 % and world median is 20.8 % . C. To reach the top 10% of countries in the world, women would need to constitute about 40% of the US House of Representatives. D. E. The five countries with the lowest percentages of women legislators are 1. Papua New Guinea 2. Comoros 3. Sri Lanka 4. Nigeria 5. Japan The five countries with the highest percentages of women legislators are 1. Sweden 2. Senegal

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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises , SPSS Companion, Sixth Edition 9 3. Finland 4. Nicaragua 5. Iceland Syntax for solution * with world dataset FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=women13 /FORMAT=NOTABLE /STATISTICS=MEAN MEDIAN SKEWNESS SESKEW /HISTOGRAM /ORDER=ANALYSIS. SUMMARIZE /TABLES=country BY women13 /FORMAT=VALIDLIST NOCASENUM TOTAL /TITLE='Case Summaries' /MISSING=VARIABLE /CELLS=COUNT. 3. A. If Pundit 1 is correct, femrole will have a negative skew . If Pundit 2 is correct, femrole will have a positive skew . If Pundit 1 is correct, femrole’s mean will be lower than its median . If Pundit 2 is correct, femrole’s mean will be higher than its median . B. Statistics for femrole variable Mean 5.87 Median 6 Mode 6 Skewness – 0.29 C. The choice of bar color is arbitrary.

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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises , SPSS Companion, Sixth Edition 10 D. Pundit 1’s assessment is more accurate. The distribution of femrole values is negatively skewed and the median is higher than the mean. The bar graph shows values tailing off on the left side. (Wording may vary . ) Syntax for solution * with GSS dataset FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=femrole /FORMAT=NOTABLE /STATISTICS=MEAN MEDIAN SKEWNESS SESKEW /BARCHART FREQ /ORDER=ANALYSIS. 4. A. Maximum dispersion when percentage of observations in each category the same. Figure should something like this:

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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises , SPSS Companion, Sixth Edition 11 B. No dispersion when all observations in the same category. (It doesn’t matter which category so long as observations all in the same one . ) C.

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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises , SPSS Companion, Sixth Edition 12 Attend value Freq uency * Percent age Cu mulative p ercent age Never 711 25.0 25.0 <Once/yr 168 5.9 30.8 Once/yr 378 13.3 44.1 Sev times/yr 316 11.1 55.2 Once/mo 198 7.0 62.2 2 – 3 times/mo 249 8.7 70.9 Nrly evry wk 127 4.4 75.4 Every wk 498 17.5 92.8 >Once/wk 204 7.2 100.0 Total 2849 100.00% * Weighted frequencies D.

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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises , SPSS Companion, Sixth Edition 13 E. T he mode of attend i s Never . The median of attend is Sev times/yr . F. High dispersion . Although there are not the same number of respondents in each category, there observations are spread out among the categories. (Instructions do not call for explanation . ) Syntax for solution * with GSS dataset FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=attend /FORMAT=NOTABLE /STATISTICS=MEDIAN MODE /BARCHART PERCENT /ORDER=ANALYSIS. 5 .

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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises , SPSS Companion, Sixth Edition 14 A. Send back children brought to US illegally? Percentage 1. Should send back – favor a great deal 7.7 % 2. Should send back – favor a moderate amount 8.5 % 3. Should send back – favor a little 2.7 % 4. Should allow to stay – favor a littl e 9.9 % 5. Should allow to stay – favor a moder ate amount 33.9 % 6. Should allow to stay – favor a great 37.3 % Total 100.0 % Should marijuana be legal ? Percentage Favor 45.3 % Neither fav or nor opp ose 25.8 % Oppose 28.9 % Total 100.0 % Presidential approval scale Percentage Appr o v e Str o ng ly 36 . 0 % Approve 17.2 % Disapprove 9.7 % Disappr ove Str o ng ly 37.1 % Total 100. 0% B. Sending back children brought to US illegally . 71.2 % of people moderately or strongly favor letting children brought to US illegally stay in the country. (Wording may vary . ) C. Legalization of marijuana . Opinions are spread out among the values favor, neutral, oppose with no response constituting a majority. (Wording may vary . ) D. Presidential approval . Most respondents either strongly approve the job the president is doing or strongly disapprove the job he is doing. (Note: this NES wave was conducted in 2016 so this question is about Barack Obama, not Donald Trump . ) (Wording may vary . ) E.

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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises , SPSS Companion, Sixth Edition 15 Syntax for solution * with GSS dataset FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=immig_chldrn grass pres_job /ORDER=ANALYSIS. GRAPH /BAR(SIMPLE)=PCT BY pres_job. 6 . A. U.S. Congress My House incumbent Appr o v e Str o ng ly 7.2% 25.4% Approve 18.0% 44.9% Disapprove 20.2% 18. 4 % Disappr ove Str o ng ly 54.6% 11.3% Total 100.0% 100.0 %

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    Solution Manual to Chapter Exercises , SPSS Companion, Sixth Edition 16 B. Incorrect . The distribution of opinions about House incumbents is not similar to the distribution of opinions about the whole Congress. The majority of people strongly disapprove of Congress as a whole, but the majority either approve or strongly approve of their House incumbent. (Wording may vary . ) Syntax for solution * with NES dataset FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=cong_approve cong_incumb_approve /ORDER=ANALYSIS. 7 . A. If the conventional wisdom is correct, the distribution of defense - related expenditures will have a positive skew . If the conventional wisdom is correct, the mean of defense - related expenditures will be higher than its median . B. Statistics for defexpen variable Mean 1093.74 Median 931.5 Skewness 2.29 C. The median is more representative of how much a typical state receives. Defense expenditures per state are skewed because a few states receive a lot of expenditures. D.

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