SOC 390 SPSS Assignment Frequency Tables

Question 1

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Let’s imagine that you are interested in how many hours of television students watch each week. To examine this, use SPSS to create a frequency table for the variable “tv”. This table will be used throughout this assignment. How many participants in the data watch exactly six hours of television per week?

4

95.5%

3

12%

Question 2

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Using the frequency table that you created above, answer the following question:

What percentage of the sample of students watch 5 or fewer hours of television each week?

99.3%

21%

92.5%

15.8%

Question 3

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Enter the cumulative frequency of participants who watch 2 or fewer hours of television each week. Enter the numerical value only, as a whole number with no decimal places (e.g., 10, not 10.2 or 10.8 or 10.0).

Question 4

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According to the frequency table that you created, 85.7% of the sample watch ___________ hours of tv each week.

4 or fewer

4

8.3

more than 4

Question 5

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Melissa provided data in this sample. She reported that she watched 10 hours of television. How many additional participants also watch 10 hours of television? Enter your answer as a whole number with no decimals (e.g., 10, not 10.0 or 10.50).

Question 6

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What percent of this sample watches 15 or more hours of television? (Tip: There are 133 people who provided data for this question.)

1.5

3

.8

99.2

Question 7

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Using the frequency table, you find that __________ percent of the sample watches five OR MORE hours of television each week.

6.7

92.5

19

14.29

Question 8

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When everyone in the sample has been accounted for, the value of the cumulative percent in this table will always be:

134

133

100

17.3

Question 9

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___________ hours of television was the answer provided by the largest number of participants in this sample.

18

134

1

2

Question 10

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Everyone in this data set provided information on how much television they watch.

True

False

Quiz Score: 10 out of 10