Social statistics for public health- University of Australia

Question 1 (5 marks)

What percentage of the people in your data set report having ‘bad’ general health?

Question 2 (10 marks)

Produce a bar chart that shows the age at which people left full-time education. Organize your data in the chart so that the label is on the bars (percentages without decimals) and the bars are ordered from highest to lowest. What constitutes the most common category of response?

Question 3 (10 marks)

Produce a bar chart that shows whether father and mother smoked, with data labels indicating the proportion on each bar. What percentage of mothers smoked compared to fathers?

Question 4 (5 marks)

What is the average SF-36 score for bodily pain? Please provide all the appropriate measures of central tendency and dispersion.

Question 5 (5 marks)

What is the most appropriate way to graphically present SF36 data for a physical role, and how would you describe the distribution of these data?

Question 6 (15 marks)

You have scale data for the number of days that participants have had to cut down activities due to health reasons in the past two weeks. You want to do some analyses that require this information to be in two categories (dichotomous) rather than scale. Because the data are not normally distributed, you decide to create the new variable above and below the median. How would you go about this?

Question 7 (10 marks)

What is the biggest category of car availability, dwelling type, and marital status in males aged between 30 and 40 years in your data set?

Question 8 (10 marks)

How many accidents did current drinkers have in the last 6 months and how many accidents did non-drinkers have? [Note: This response requires both statistical and graphical output]

Question 9 (10 marks)

What sort of dwelling type is reported by people in different social classes, and are there any interesting patterns or problems in your SPSS output?

Question 10 (20 marks)

Providing your rationale, how would you deal with the problems identified in question 9 so that you can further investigate the relationship between housing type and social class?