1. Select three variables from the DEMO or EXER data set. You can look at the av
1. Select three variables from the DEMO or EXER data set. You can look at the available
variables by opening DEMO.sav and EXER.sav in SPSS and browsing through the
Variables view, or by looking at the codebook provided at the end of your textbook in
Appendix A. (If you want to go beyond the textbook, you can use the GSS2016.sav data
file, which has many more possibilities of variables to choose from.)
2. You need to select all three variables from the same data set. One variable, and only
one, should be a demographic variable (age, sex, race, income, education, marital status,
religion, party ID). You should have both continuous and discrete variables (see Chapter 2
for a definition of those terms)-ideally one variable for each level of measurement.
3. When selecting your variables, think about a hypothesis that you could test with them
Think about items that could be related, or think about how an item may influence
another. This will help you produce a meaningful analysis. You are also encouraged to pick
something that you are interested in, maybe even a topic you have explored earlier in one
of the practice exercises for Modules 1 or 2, or one of your other sociology courses.
4. Recreate the table below in a Word file and fill it out for the three variables that you
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