Do You Believe It?

Main post: You are about to embark into a new country with your business. However, you are aware that there are differences between cultures and societies around the globe. To understand potential customers better, you have found some cultural data about various countries.

1. Choose one of the countries listed below as the current home country for your business.

   Algeria	Egypt	Kyrgyzstan	Poland	Trinidad and Tobago
   Argentina	Estonia	Lebanon	Qatar	Tunisia
   Armenia	Georgia	Libya	Romania	Turkey
   Australia	Germany	Malaysia	Russia	Ukraine
   Azerbaijan	Ghana	Mexico	Rwanda	United States of America
   Bahrain	Haiti	Morocco	Singapore	Uruguay
   Belarus	Hong Kong	Netherlands	Slovenia	Uzbekistan
   Brazil	India	New Zealand	South Africa	Yemen
   Chile	Iraq	Nigeria	South Korea	Zimbabwe
   China	Japan	Pakistan	Spain
   Colombia	Jordan	Palestine	Sweden
   Cyprus	Kazakhstan	Peru	Taiwan
   Ecuador	Kuwait	Philippines	Thailand

2. Choose one of the remaining countries for the new business location.
3. Choose at least one of the categories listed below that you believe will impact your business.
   • Importance of family rating (very important, somewhat important, not very important, not at all important)
   • Importance of friends rating (very important, somewhat important, not very important, not at all important)
   • Importance of leisure rating (very important, somewhat important, not very important, not at all important)
   • Importance of politics rating (very important, somewhat important, not very important, not at all important)
   • Importance of work rating (very important, somewhat important, not very important, not at all important)
   • Importance of religion rating (very important, somewhat important, not very important, not at all important)
   • Men have more right to a job than women rating (agree, disagree, neither)
   • Ethnic background(s) (173 listed)
4. Using the provided pivot table, you will find the frequency for the category (or intersection of categories) chosen for the countries you selected for your current and new business locations.
5. Use the frequencies found to determine the percentage of the population represented for each country.
6. Write a hypothesis about the situation. Your hypothesis will be stating whether you think the percentage of the population of the new country chosen will be less than, greater than, or not equal to the percentage found for the current country. While writing your hypothesis, be sure to use all the correct notations for H₀ and H_a.
7. State whether you have a one-tailed lower, one-tailed upper, or two-tailed test.
8. Write a brief description of how the outcome may impact your businesses success in the new country.