Question

An investigation of wages paid to its employees by a large company was undertaken as a result of an allegation of discrimination. Data was collected for 1000 randomly selected employees. The data included employee ID, gender, race, annual wages in dollars (Salary), whether the employee had full-time status or part-time status (Full_Part), number of years of education (Ed), and number of years with the company (Tenure). The first two rows of data in the worksheet are displayed below.
1 Gender Race Salary Full_Part Ed Tenure
2 Female Caucasian 32196 Full 14 2
3 Male Black 62385 Full 16 10
How many cases does this data set contain?
How many variables does this data set contain? (3 p)
How many quantitative variables does this data set contain, and what are they? How many qualitative variables does this data set contain, and what are they?

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

First, the data set is:

  Gender     Race        Salary   WorkTimeStatus   Education   Tenure

1. Female  Caucasian  32196     Full Time                     14yrs          2 yrs

2. Male      Black          62385    Full Time                     16yrs         10yrs

Now to the questions:

(A) This data set contains 2 cases; 1 for the first employee (the female caucasian) and 2 for the second employee (the male black).

(B) This data set contains 6 variables;

1. Gender  2. Race  3. Salary  4. Work time status  5. Years of education

6. Number of years in/with the company

(C) Out of these 6 variables, the quantitative ones (those that can be measured or weighted numerically) are:

3. Salary   5. Years of education   6. Years with the company

Altogether, 3 in number

(D) The qualitative variables are:

1. Gender   2. Race   4. Work Time Status

Altogether that's 3 variables