Data Sources and Coding
This unit lesson covered data sources and coding. As you continue to work through the components of research, this assignment will have you practice looking at data and refining your survey questions.
This assignment is a two-part assignment submitted as one document. You will need a title page for this assignment. You do not need an introduction or conclusion section.
Part I: Go to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Table A-1: Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age.
Table A-1 presents the employment status of the civilian population by sex and age and is updated monthly.
For the first part of this assignment, you will execute statistical analysis to determine the measure of central tendency and measures of variation through calculating the mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation. To begin:
select the data from all available months in the Seasonally Adjusted header columns,
select Civilian Noninstructional Population Participation Rate, and
use any software of your choice to calculate the mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation.
Part II: Using the survey questions you constructed in Unit II, you will:
explain the strengths and weaknesses of the survey questions you constructed,
determine the appropriateness of the survey questions to your working hypothesis and research questions, and
revise survey questions if needed. If no revisions are needed, explain why.
Your final submitted document should be at least two pages in length and include at least one resource. Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.
Unit II paper attached for reference.
Table A1: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm
