1. A researcher wishes to test the hypothesis that parental incarceration is a risk factor for lifetime incarceration of the adult children of incarcerated parents. She measures parental incarceration as had a parent in prison; Did not have a parent in prison and adult children's incarceration as incarcerated; Not incarcerated.

• Identify the independent variable.
• Identify the level of measurement of the independent variable.
• Identify the dependent variable.
• Identify the level of measurement of the dependent variable.
• What type of inferential analysis should the researcher run to test for a relationship between these two variables?