Remember that the variable is respondent's marital status, we are just identifying it as "X;" and the scores under column X are just an efficient means by which we are identifying the marital status category chosen by the respondent: 1 = married, 2 = widowed, 3 = divorced, 4 = separated, and 5 = never married. (1) What is the level of measurement of marital status variable?

NOMINAL

Sort the scores from lowest to highest, then calculate (2) the frequency distribution and (3) the distribution of proportions. So, your assignment answer will be a new table that will have an X column showing the marital satisfaction score (from 1 to 5) or you can use the value labels (married, widowed, etc.), then a column with the frequency of each marital status group/categorand a column with the proportion (using our rounding rule). You should label your frequency distribution column f (lower case f is our notation for frequency) and label your proportion distribution column p (lower case p is our notation for a proportion).

Then, (4) calculate and interpret the ratio of "never married" respondents to "married" respondents.

10/10 =1

x f p

2 1 0.034

4 2 0.069

3 6 0.21

5 10 0.35

1 10 0.34

1- married - 10

2- widowed - 1

3- divorced - 6

4- separated - 2

5- never been married- 10