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Example 2.1 Work Status in The GSS 2008 Survey

The document discusses work status data from the 2008 General Social Survey. Respondents were asked their work status the previous week. The responses were coded 1-8 and the first 150 observations are listed. The task is to analyze the data using frequency distributions, bar charts, and pie charts.

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Example 2.1 Work Status in The GSS 2008 Survey

The document discusses work status data from the 2008 General Social Survey. Respondents were asked their work status the previous week. The responses were coded 1-8 and the first 150 observations are listed. The task is to analyze the data using frequency distributions, bar charts, and pie charts.

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Example 2.

Work Status in the GSS 2008 Survey

In chapter 1, we briefly introduced the general Social Survey. In the 2008 survey
respondents were asked the following.
Last week were you working full time, part time, going to school, keeping house, or
what? the responses were
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Working full-time
Working part-time
Temporarily not working
Unemployed, laid off
Retired
school
Keeping house
other

The responses were recorded using the codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,and 8, respectively. The first
150 observation are listed here. The name of the variable is WRKSATAT, and the data are
stored in the 16th column(column P in Excel, column 16, in Minitab ).
Construct a frequency and relative frequency distribution for these data and graphically
summarize the data by producing a bar chart and a pie chart.
1

Work Status in the GSS 2008 Survey


In the 2008 survey respondents were asked the following.
Last week were you working full time, part time, going to school, keeping house, or
what? The responses were
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Working full-time
Working part-time
Temporarily not working
Unemployed, laid off
Retired
school
Keeping house
other

The responses were recorded using the codes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,and 8, respectively. The first
150 observation are listed here.
Construct a frequency and relative frequency distribution for these data and graphically
summarize the data by producing a bar chart and a pie chart.
1

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