The follow
ing post has two assignments namely;
1.Racial differences in home ownership in the US
1. Suppose you are work
ing on a research report that
investigates racial differences
in home ownership
in the US. You utilized the General Social Survey, 2014 of 1,054 Americans to assess home
ownership among White (N=882) and Black adults (N=172). You found that 619 White adults and 68 Black adults
in your sample owned homes.
a. Calculate the proportion of White and Black adults who own homes. Construct the 95% confidence
interval for the proportion of home ownership among both White and Black adults (i.e.,
estimate the confidence
interval separately for both White and Black adults). [2+5= 7 po
ints]
b. Construct the 99% confidence
interval for the proportion of home ownership among both White and Black adults (i.e., estimate the confidence
interval separately for both White and Black
adults) [5 po
ints].
c. Which of the confidence
interval (i.e., 95% or 99% confidence
interval) would you prefer to use for your report? Expla
in why [3 po
ints].
2. You know from sociological theories that women experience systemic disadvantages
in the labor market. Such discrim
ination could lead to gender differences
in income. You are
interested
in
exam
ining the possibility of
income differences between men and women. You draw from the General Social Survey, 2014 to produce the descriptive statistics presented below.
Gender N M
inimum Maximum Mean Std. Deviation
Men 456 500 160000 56077.30 43502.64
Women 456 500 160000 36021.38 29980.13
a. State the null hypothesis [1 po
int].
b. State the research hypothesis [1 po
int].
c. Would you set up your hypothesis as a directional hypothesis? In other words, would you set it up as a one-tailed or a two-tailed test? [2 po
ints]
d. Identify the test statistic and provide the formula [2 po
ints].
e. Sett
ing alpha of .05, what do you conclude based on the test statistic (=8.11; p-value=0.000) you calculated? Are you able to reject the null hypothesis? Why or why not? Provide a detailed
explanation.
2.World population growth from 8000 B.C. to A.D. 2000
1. Make a graph to show world population growth from 8000 B.C. to A.D. 2000. Expla
in how the world
population grew historically.
2. Go to https://www.gapm
inder.org/tools/ to exam
ine changes
in crude birth rate population trends over time
(from 1900 to 2015).