STA10003 FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS ASSIGNMENT - PART 1 Semester / Study Period: Study Period 3 Year: 2019 Unit code: STA10003 Unit name: Foundations of statistics Assignment Number: Part 1 worth 20% of your final mark for STA10003 Your name: Tarnya Kozlowski Student number: 102939876 Date submitted: SWIN BUR * NE * SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Please retain a hard copy of your assignment as you will be required to resubmit it if requested Instructions Type your answers in the spaces provided in this document Submission Instructions 1. Your submission must be a single Word file or PDF file. 2. An answer template is provided, and is recommended for use. You may need to resize your output to fit. 3. A cover page is not required, though you should include your name and student number within the document 4. You must submit your file via Canvas by the specified due date and time. 5. Once submitted, please review your submission to ensure the correct file has been submitted. 6. Only the last document you submit will be marked. 7. This is an individual assignment. Do not share your work with other students. They will have a different random sample of data, so any copying will be detected. Page 1 of 8
Question 1 The variable HealthStatus indicates the self-reported health status of each of the Californian adults. Using SPSS, summarise the HealthStatus variable and write a paragraph explaining the key features of the data observed in the output in the style presented in the course materials. The distribution of selfttreported health for a sample of 1500 Californian adults is displayed in figure 2. The most typical reported status was very good (31.1%) although good was also high at 30.1%. A small percentage recorded their health status as poor (5.1%) Include your SPSS output for this question here Self-reported Health Status Frequency Percent Valid Percent Valid Excellent 289 Very Good 467 Good 451 Fair 217 Poor 76 5.1 5.1 100.0 Total 1500. 100.0 100.0 19.3 31.1 30.1 30.1 14.5 14.5 94.9 19.3 31.1 50.4 Cumulative Percent 19.3 80.5 Figure 1 Distribution of selfttreported health status
500 400 300 Frequency 200 100 0 Excellent Self-reported Health Status Very Good Good Fair Self-reported Health Status Poor Figure 2 Distribution of self-reported health status.