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PRESENT ALL RELEVANT SPSS OUTPUTS IN THE SAME WORD DOCUMENT AS YOUR ANSWERS. See Appendix on page 6 for Critical Chi-Square (X2) values at p=0.05 Section A: Answer all questions in I-V below in 1500 words (excluding tables, data, graphs). (Total marks 100). Marks for each question are mentioned across it. The instructions for answering questions I-IV and V are given below. Instructions for ques I-IV: You are interested in finding out whether respondent's ‘attitude towards voting' is influenced by their ‘level of satisfaction with political parties or politicians' and attributes such as their ‘social class' (or income level). You are provided with the dataset "RSM BES2015.sav”. You will need to browse through this dataset and identify three variables - one representing respondent's ‘attitude towards voting', another representing respondent's ‘level of satisfaction with political parties or politicians' and the third variable that represents their ‘social class' (or income level). Based on the selection of appropriate variables, you need to answer all questions I - IV below. Question I (Total Marks 40) 1. Briefly explain the reasons for selecting your three variables based on the information provided above. (4 marks) 2. Comment on the level of measurement for each of the three variables you have selected. (6 marks) 3. Recode these variables appropriately, where needed, so that you can present them effectively in graphs, tables in Ques I and cross-tabulations required in questions II, III and IV. Explain the decisions you have made whilst doing this. (6 marks) * Create suitable descriptive statistics, including one appropriate graph and one table for each of the three selected variables. Briefly discuss your outputs. (18 marks) * Create, interpret and briefly discuss up to two suitable numerical statistics for each of the three selected variables. (6 marks) Question II (Total Marks 15) 1. Set up hypothesis testing for the association between the variables representing respondent's 'attitude towards voting' and their ‘level of satisfaction with political parties or politicians' by generating suitable null and alternative hypotheses. (2 marks) * Specify the dependent and independent variables in the stated association. (2 marks) * Create a two-way cross-tabulation between these recoded variables. Briefly discuss two cell values. (4 marks) * Using the Chi-square test for independence, generate appropriate statistics to test the statistical significance and the strength of the association between these two variables. Is the association between these variables statistically significant? Explain your answer. (5 marks) * Comment on the strength of the association between these variables using appropriate statistics. (2 marks) Question III (Total Marks 20) 1. Set up hypothesis testing for association between the variables representing respondent's ‘attitude towards voting' and their social class' (or income level) by generating suitable null and alternative hypotheses. (2 marks) * Specify the dependent and independent variables in the stated association. (2 marks) * Create and briefly discuss the two-way cross-tabulation between the recoded variables. Briefly discuss two cell values. (4 marks) * Using the Chi-square test for independence, generate the appropriate statistics to test the statistical significance and the strength of the association between these variables. Is the association between the variables statistically significant? Explain your answer. (5 marks) * Comment on the strength of the association between these variables using appropriate statistics. (3 marks) * Compare the strength of associations in questions II and III above and discuss using appropriate statistics which of the two variables - respondent's ‘level of satisfaction with political parties or politicians' or their 'social class' (or income level) affects respondent's ‘attitude towards voting' more. (4 marks) Question IV (Total Marks 15) 1. Create a three-way cross-tabulation between variables representing respondent's ‘attitude towards voting' and 'level of satisfaction with political parties or politicians' with social class' (or income level) as the third variable. * Generate suitable null and alternative hypotheses for the association between these variables. (4 marks) * Create and briefly discuss the three-way cross-tabulation between the recoded variables. Briefly discuss two cell values. (4 marks) * Using the Chi-square test for independence, generate and interpret appropriate statistics to test the statistical significance and the strength of the association between these variables representing respondent's ‘attitude towards voting' and ‘level of satisfaction with political parties or politicians' across respondent's social class' (or income level). Comment on the statistical significance of these associations. (4 marks) * Does the nature, direction or strength of the association between the variables representing respondent's 'attitude towards voting' and their ‘level of satisfaction with political parties or politicians' vary across different categories of the third variable - respondent's social class' (or income level). Interpret appropriate statistics and explain your answer. (3 marks) Question V (Total Marks 10) 1. From the dataset provided ("RSM BES2015.sav") select one variable measured on the 'scale' level of measurement and briefly explain your selection. (2 marks) a. Create on appropriate graph for the selected scale variable and provide a brief explanation on the distribution of this variable. (3 marks) b. Generate appropriate numerical statistics for the selected variable and interpret and briefly discuss three of these numerical statistics. (5 marks)