Social Statistics

Instructions: Please use and submit your responses to the following questions on this worksheet.

Problem 1, Operationalization: Based on your review the General Social Data Explorer and the short instructional video on how to use it, type in the term “Religion” into the Keyword field: Review the survey questions that were asked over the years by the General Social Survey. Review the questions and discuss which questions you feel provide the most valid and reliable measures of religion and religious life. Which do you feel are lacking as measures of religious life and why? What other questions could be asked to better operationalize these concepts? Discuss, explain and write between 300 and 400 words and use (and underline) concepts and terms from the lecture, study guide and/or power point in developing your response:
Write your response here:

Problem 2, Operationalization, continued: Based on your review the General Social Data Explorer and the short instructional video on how to use it, type in the term “Work” or “Economy” into the Keyword field. Review the survey questions that were asked over the years by the General Social Survey. Review the questions and discuss which questions you feel provide the most valid and reliable measures of economic and work experiences. Which do you feel are lacking as measures of work life and why? What other questions could be asked to better operationalize these concepts? Discuss, explain and write between 300 and 400 words and use (and underline) concepts and terms from the lecture, study guide and power point in developing your response:
Write your response here:


Problem 3, Survey Research: Based upon our video lecture and power point presentation, we now know that survey research can be considered the “properties-dispositions” design. That is, survey researchers are always interested in understanding which “properties” can help explain or predict one’s position on a particular issue or “disposition.” To start to unpack this definition, start to excavate the General Social Survey by using the GSS Data Explorer. Find five survey questions that measure a disposition. Include those survey questions in the following table below by listing them by their variable name, the survey question and how the question was measured (include the response categories).
Dispositions Variables:
Variable Name Full Survey Question Response Categories


  1. Problem 4, Survey Research, continued: Based upon our video lecture and power point presentation, we now know that survey research can be considered the “properties-dispositions” design. That is, survey researchers are always interested in understanding which “properties” can help explain or predict one’s position on a particular issue or “disposition.” To unpack this definition further, continue to excavate the General Social Survey by using the GSS Data Explorer. Find five survey questions that measure a property. Include those survey questions in the following table below by listing them by their variable name, the survey question and how the question was measured (include the response categories).
    Properties Variables:
    Variable Name Full Survey Question Response Categories

  2. Problem 5: Levels of Measurement, Categorical Variables: Based upon our video lecture and power point presentation, we now know that there are two levels of measurement, categorical and continuous. Continue to excavate the General Social Survey by using the GSS Data Explorer and this time, find five new survey questions that have been measured on a categorical scale. Include those survey questions in the following table below by listing them by their variable name, the survey question and how the question was measured (include the response categories).
    Categorical Variables:
    Variable Name Full Survey Question Response Categories

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