¶ … SPSS Software
The study chooses the Age Category as the categorical variable and Lived Poverty Index as the metric variable. The study uses SPSS software Version 21 for the analysis and presents the frequency distributions for the two variables. The visual SPSS output of both the Age Category and Lived Poverty Index are as follows:
FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=AGE_COND
/ORDER=ANALYSIS.
Frequencies
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Age Category
Valid
Missing
Age Category
Frequency
Percent
Valid Percent
Cumulative Percent
Valid
51 and above
Total
Missing
Total
The paper uses the frequency distribution to summary the age category in a manageable form. The frequency distribution reveals that the age groups are between 18 and over 51 years. The number of participants between 15 and 35 years of age are 27,888, which are 54.1% of the participants. However, participants between 36 and 50 years of age are 13,868(26.9%). The sample population who are 51 years and above are 9,819 (19%). The total participants are 51,573 (100%). The frequency distribution table also presents the cumulative frequency of the sample population. The summary of the frequency table shows that the participants between the age 18 and 35 form the largest number of the total population and are more than 50% of all the sample population. (Trochim, 2006, Nick, 2007).
FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=AGE_COND LivedPoverty
/ORDER=ANALYSIS.
Frequencies
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Statistics
Age Category
Lived Poverty Index (average index of 5 poverty items)
N
Valid
51573
50923
Missing
14
Similarly, the study selects lived poverty index as the numeric variable and based on the frequency distribution table, the total number of people living in poverty are 50,923. From the results of the frequency distribution, the average lived poverty index shows that 8,173 people are the on the zero poverty index level. However, the total number of 190 participants are 4 for the poverty index level rate, which is the highest poverty index level.
Frequency Table
Lived Poverty Index (average index of 5 poverty items)
Frequency
Percent
Valid Percent
Cumulative Percent
PART II
DESCRIPTIVES VARIABLES=AGE_COND LivedPoverty
/STATISTICS=MEAN STDDEV MIN MAX.
Notes
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Data
C:UsersDELL 3521DownloadsAfrobarometer__student_8210_.sav
Active Dataset
DataSet1
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N of Rows in Working Data File
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Missing Value Handling
Definition of Missing
User defined missing values are treated as missing.
Cases Used
All non-missing data are used.
Syntax
DESCRIPTIVES VARIABLES=AGE_COND LivedPoverty
/STATISTICS=MEAN STDDEV MIN MAX.
Resources
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DESCRIPTIVES VARIABLES=AGE_COND LivedPoverty
/STATISTICS=MEAN STDDEV MIN MAX.
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Descriptive Statistics
N
Minimum
Maximum
Mean
Std. Deviation
Age Category
51573
1
3
1,65
,780
Lived Poverty Index (average index of 5 poverty items)
50923
,0
4,0
1,245
,9456
Valid N (listwise)
50910
The part two provides the descriptive statistics of the variable age category and variable lived poverty index. The goal of the descriptive statistics is to summarize the mass data in a manageable form revealing the mean and standard deviation. (Babbie, 2009).
As being revealed in the descriptive statistics table, the mean value of the age category is 1.65 while the mean value of the lived poverty is 1.254. Based on the results of the descriptive statistics, it is revealed that large number of people are in the poverty index level of 1.254. The HPI (Human Poverty Index) indicates a level of standard of living within a country, and the HDI reflects the extent of human derivation levels in both developed and developing countries. A comparative analysis of the poverty index between developed and developing countries reveals that developing countries have high HPI compared to the poverty index in the developed countries. (UNDP, 2015).
PART III
EXAMINE VARIABLES=LivedPoverty
/PLOT BOXPLOT STEMLEAF
/COMPARE GROUPS
/STATISTICS DESCRIPTIVES
/CINTERVAL 95
/MISSING LISTWISE
/NOTOTAL.
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Input
Data
C:UsersDELL 3521DownloadsAfrobarometer__student_8210_.sav
Active Dataset
DataSet1
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Weight
one>
Split File
one>
N of Rows in Working Data File
51587
Missing Value Handling
Definition of Missing
User-defined missing values for dependent variables are treated as missing.
Cases Used
Statistics are based on cases with no missing values for any dependent variable or factor used.
Syntax
EXAMINE VARIABLES=LivedPoverty
/PLOT BOXPLOT STEMLEAF
/COMPARE GROUPS
/STATISTICS DESCRIPTIVES
/CINTERVAL 95
/MISSING LISTWISE
/NOTOTAL.
Resources
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Case Processing Summary
Cases
Valid
Missing
Total
N
Percent
N
Percent
N
Percent
Lived Poverty Index (average index of 5 poverty items)
50923
98,7%
1,3%
51587
100,0%
Descriptive
Statistic
Std. Error
Lived Poverty Index (average index of 5 poverty items)
Mean
1,245
,0042
95% Confidence Interval for Mean
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