A human resource consultant is asked to review how equitable a company is in terms of diversity and rewards. As part of his investigations the consultant asks a statistician to analyze a dataset made available with information on the demographic background, job type and hourly salary of 1,026 employees.

Thedatasetcontainsthevariableslistedinthefollowingtable.

Variablename	Label	Description
hrwage	Hourlywage	HourlywageinUSdollars
age	Age	Ageofemployee
educ	Yearsofeducation	Years spentas a pupil/student in education
exper	Yearsofrelevant experience	Years of relevant workexperience
sex	Sexoftheperson	0=Male 1=Female
region	Region ofcountryin whichdivisionis located	0=Notinthesouth 1=South
union	Union status	0=Notaunionmember 1=Unionmember
jobcat	Jobcategory	1=Manual 2=Administrative/IT(Admin) 3=Supervisor(Sup) 4=Sales 5 =Management(Manag)

1. To examine the correlation between hourly wage, age, years of experience and years of education, the statistician conducts a bivariate correlation separatelyformalesandfemales.The SPSS output is showninAppendix 1.Brieflyexplain what relevant information is shown in this output.

Note:Following academic convention, table numbers appear above the tables and figure numbers appear below the figures.

APPENDIX1
Table1		Correlations
		Hourly	Agein	Yearsof	Yearsof Relevant
Sex		Wage($)	years	Education	Experience
Male Hourly Wage($)	PearsonCorrelation	1	.235**	.322**	.135**
	Sig.(2-tailed)		.000	.000	.002
	N	516	516	516	516
Agein years	PearsonCorrelation	.235**	1	-.165**	.974**
	Sig.(2-tailed)	.000		.000	0.000
	N	516	516	516	516
Years of Education	PearsonCorrelation	.322**	-.165**	1	-.381**
	Sig.(2-tailed)	.000	.000		.000
	N	516	516	516	516
Years of RelevantExperience	PearsonCorrelation Sig.(2-tailed)	.135** .002	.974** 0.000	-.381** .000	1
	N	516	516	516	516
Female Hourly Wage($)	PearsonCorrelation	1	.196**	.347**	.107*
	Sig.(2-tailed)		.000	.000	.016
	N	510	510	510	510
Agein years	PearsonCorrelation	.196**	1	-.130**	.980**
	Sig.(2-tailed)	.000		.003	0.000
	N	510	510	510	510
Years of Education	PearsonCorrelation	.347**	-.130**	1	-.322**
	Sig.(2-tailed)	.000	.003		.000
	N	510	510	510	510
Yearsof Relevant	Pearson Correlation	.107*	.980**	-.322**	1
Experience Sig.(2-tailed)	.016	0.000	.000
N	510	510	510	510

**.Correlationissignificantatthe0.01level(2-tailed).

*.Correlationissignificantatthe0.05level(2-tailed).