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The following survey question is flawed. What is the MAJOR weakness of this item? “How old were you the first time you went to a grocery store?”• Under 6 months old• 6 months to 12 months old• 13 months to 24 months old• 25 months to 3 years old• More than 3 years old

When official definitions or the method of data collections change over time, this causes a problem of ______ in secondary data analysis.

Dr. Simpson conducted a content analysis of The New York Times between 1980 and 2000. She first identified relevant articles involving government regulation of business. After finding 2,000 such articles, she systematically sampled articles with a sampling interval of 5. She then coded each sampled article based on the subjective meaning it expressed, as pro- or anti-government regulation, using a 1 to 10 scale (1 = very anti-regulation, 10 = very pro-regulation). In this study, Dr. Simpson used to identify articles as pro- or anti-government regulation.

An example of multivariate analysis would be

Identify the statement that characterizes equivalence reliability.

The Young Children’s Charity would like to provide an accurate estimate of how much it costs to raise a child between the ages of 2 and 12 for its fund-raising campaign. They contracted with you to find out how much households spent on raising a child in 1996. They gave you a list all 400,000 residential telephone customers in the area they will operate the campaign. You sampled every 400th address on the list. The Charity will have a survey company contact each household sampled and ask whether or not there is a child between 2 and 12 years of age living in the household. If there is, they will ask other questions and record the total amount spent raising a child during 1996. What type of sample will you be using?

Table 12.2Which of the following is FALSE based upon the table?

Dr. Chandresh wants to study the U.S. media coverage of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak which left 8,000 Indians dead and 50,000 injured. Which non-reactive research method would be ideal?

Dr. Thomas studies racial attitudes. She has two sets of questions on a questionnaire. One set asks white people about black people, and the other asks black people about white people. Each set of questions is dependent on one’s answer to the question, “What is your race?” Dr. Thomas is using a ____________ to determine which set of questions to ask respondents.

What sources are the main providers of statistical data?