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Primary Task: Write a brief paper in APA format of 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

You are going to look at how wealth might change one's life. Use Crosstabs in SPSS to complete the task:

Load gss.sav into SPSS.
You are going to look at the relationships between the following:
Being wealthy (richwork)
Demographics of gender (sex)
Satisfaction level with your job (satjob)
Educational degree level (degree)
To run this analysis, go to Descriptive, then Crosstabs. Put richwork in the Rows box and the other three variables in the Columns box. Click on Click on Cells, then

Observed under Counts and all three boxes under Percentages. You c=[]`§
Write a summary description of the findings based upon the output as it pertains to the variables and being rich and continuing to work.

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Write a brief paper in APA format of 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

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Descriptive Statistics and Samples Versus Populations
Primary Task: Write a brief paper in APA format of 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Write a summary description of the findings based upon the output as it pertains to the variables and being rich and continuing to work.

We have made a Cross-Tabulation Chi-Square test.
The dependent variable is Being wealthy (richwork) and the independent variables are: Demographics of gender (sex), Satisfaction level with your job (satjob) and Educational degree level (degree).
The Ouptut is in the Appendinx.
From the first table we could conclude that 50.6% of Male and 49.4% of female would continue working if rich, while 46.3% of male and 53.7% of female would stop working. This shows us the fact that male are more willing to work than female if they get rich.
From the second table we could conclude that, if reach would continue working having a job of housework as follows: 47.3% are very satisfied, 40.9% are moderately satisfied, 8.6% are a little dissatisfied, and 3.3% are very dissatisfied, ...

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