Research Assignment
A. Find a publicly available secondary dataset that will allow you to answer at least one of your research question for your proposal.
B. What is your research question?
C. Explain your IV, DV, and how you are conceptualizing and operationalizing them. What variables will you be using? List at least 2 covariates that you feel it is important to include. Why did you choose these?
D. What cleaning and recoding of these variables did you do? Be specific.
Watch for reverse coding, values that seem out of logical range
o Create a table with the following descriptive statistics of your IV, DV, and at least two covariates: range, mean, median, mode, standard deviation
If the mean or median is not useful, include an explanation.
• Include a paragraph explaining the table. What does this information tell me about these variables? Be specific.
• Make sure to include the dataset and your Stata do file or SPSS syntax.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.