STAT730 Advance Research Methods Assignment 2 Fall 2016

Advanced Research Methods (STAT730) Assignment No. 2 Marks: 20 Due Date: 12 December, 2016

Purpose of STAT730 Assignment 2: The purpose of the assignment is to learn how to enter data in SPSS. A research has been conducted on the topic of how ‘demographic factors’ can affect ‘child happiness’. After data collection with the help of a questionnaire, data is compiled in following format. Following demographic variables and questionnaire items are observed. 

Variables Gender: (1) Male (2) Female Citizenship: (1) Local (2) Foreigner Age: (1)Yong 18-30 (2) Mature 31 – 50 (3) Old > 50 Religion: (1) Islam (2) Christianity (3) Hinduism (4) Buddhism Mother‟s Education: (1) < 5 class (2) 6 -9 class (3) Metric (4) FA/FSC (5) Bachelors (6) MS/PhD Child Happiness Questionnaire Q1: 1=strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = neutral, 4 = agree, 5 = strongly agree Q2: 1=strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = neutral, 4 = agree, 5 = strongly agree Q3: 1=strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = neutral, 4 = agree, 5 = strongly agree.

Preliminary Requirement: Students have to install IBM SPSS (any version) on their computers. Students are required to obtain the SPSS software by themselves.

Assignment 2 Requirements: 

To complete the assignment, you are required to do the following:-

1. Define the variables in „Variable View‟ of SPSS software. 
2. Enter the given data in SPSS. 
3. Paste the screenshots of “Data View” and “Variable View” in MS word*. 
4. Submit MS word assignment file in LMS.