Multiple Bivariate Crosstabulation Assignment


Choose a dependent variable, either from the data set that came with the textbook or with the GSS7204 data set that came with Professional Microcase (available at  http://www.yousendit.com/download/M3BuS3drdVVubVUwTVE9PQ).  Select five independent variables that you believe might help to explain variation in your dependent variable.  Prepare a multiple bivariate crosstabulation table showing, on one page, the crosstabulations between all of these variables and your dependent variable.  Your table shoud look like the one below.  Note that all the rows add to 100% - these are row percents.  The result for the "entire sample" can be obtained with the "univariate" procedure.  You will also find a "total sample" figure at the bottom of each of the crosstabs.  Write a paragraph summarizing your findings.  Type your results in a word processor and save them as either a *.doc file or a *.rtf file.  Upload the result to the Assignment Dropbox.



Belief that People Who Have Never Had Children Lead Empty Lives

 

 

                      Agree   Neither  Disagree

 

 

Male                   23%     28%      49%         

Female                 21%     25%      55%

 

Under 30               15%     29%      57%

30-49                  17%     27%      56%

50 and up              32%     23%      45%

 

1988                   27%     48%      45%

1994                   19%     28%      53%

2002                   18%     22%      60%

 

Liberal Protestant     23%     27%      51%

Cons. Protestant       24%     26%      50%

Catholic               23%     25%      51%

Jewish                 14%     26%      60%

 

Not High School Grad   40%     22%      38%

High School Graduate   23%     27%      50%

Attended College       14%     27%      60%

 

 

All Respondents        22%     26%      52%    

 

 

Only 22% of the respondents agree with the statement that people who have not had children have empty lives, with 52% disagreeing and 26% undecided.  Women are slightly less likely to agree than men.  Older people are more likely to agree than younger people.  Jewish respondents were less likely to agree than Christian respondents.  There was a difference between age groups with only 15% of the under 30 respondents agreeing as compared to 32% of those over fifty.  There was also a large difference between educational groups.  Only 14% of the respondents who had attended college agreed that people without children have had empty lives, as compared to 40% of those who did not finish high school.  Opinion on this issue has changed over time, with fewer respondents agreeing with the statement in 2002 than in 1988.