The data from the European Social Survey (ESS) has variables that include time spent reading newspapers (in minutes) on an average weekday and years invested in obtaining the highest level of education (years). A random sample of observations (n= 43) is obtained and stored in an Excel file YoE_NewspaperReading.xlsx for people from Slovenia. The file contains two variables: education (in years) and newspaper (reading time in minutes on an average weekday).

LINK TO SPREADSHEET:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lET_ZtjXi47AG88MPK-wmwKq5qX-sSTYvGOY32rHVvU/edit?usp=sharing

Figure 1 Figure 2 O Co 180 O O Or 140 O Education (years) O 0 09 Newspapers (minutes) N O O O 60 80 100 O O O 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 10 12 14 16 Newspapers (minutes) Education (years) Figure 3 Figure 4 10 O O O 0 oo O Frequency -30 -20 -10 0 10 20 30 Residuals O C O O O O O -40 -20 0 20 40 10 12 14 16 Residuals Education (years)A B 1 newspaper: education 2 133.5 13.4 161.93 13.5 4 140.05 16 149.35 16.3 161.98 14 143.21 13.9 CO 129.15 13.7 9 178.94 16.9 10 111.05 12.3 11 181.08 17.1 12 120.36 13.3 13 128.91 12.5 14 133.18 13.9 15 117.95 13.7 16 136.01 13.8 17 119.2 13.5 18 60.17 9.9 19 186.59 17.5 20 145.4 16.7 21 141.93 13.8 22 136.36 13.8 23 129.19 12.2 24 166.58 17.4 25 162.48 16.9 26 131.35 13.2 27 134.71 13.9 28 135.21 12.4 29 110.16 11.8 30 147.92 14.3 31 156.2 16.9 32 144.16 13.7 33 156.86 14.7 34 126.41 14.1 35 82.71 12 36 153.68 17.2 37 104.59 9.1 38 166.58 14.7 39 138.76 13.6 40 102.98 14 41 107.11 13.5 42 147.05 14.5 43 125.02 12.3 44 131.89 12.9Regression results where Age (in years) is the predictor Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value Lower 95% Upper 95% Intercept 145.964 20.833 7.007 0.000 103.892 188.036 age -0.178 0.393 -0.453 0.653 -0.971 0.616