An open-ended survey item asked residents of a neighborhood to explain what they liked least about their
Question:
An open-ended survey item asked residents of a neighborhood to explain what they liked least about their neighborhood. Here are six of the responses:
• None of my neighbors talk to each other.
• When I walk around, I don’t feel like I can trust people I pass on the street.
• I have to drive too far to get to a grocery store.
• If I want to walk anywhere, I have to leave my house an hour early.
• I wish we still had block parties, but people stopped organizing them a few years ago.
• There isn’t enough public transportation.
a. Assign each of the six responses to one of the two categories of a new variable:
(1) Transportation or (2) Social Relationships.
b. Propose a name for this new variable.
c. What level of measurement is this new variable? Explain how you know.
Step by Step Answer:
Statistics For Social Understanding With Stata And SPSS
ISBN: 9781538109847
2nd Edition
Authors: Nancy Whittier , Tina Wildhagen , Howard Gold