An open-ended survey item asked residents of a neighborhood to explain what they liked least about their

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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.

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Statistics For Social Understanding With Stata And SPSS

ISBN: 9781538109847

2nd Edition

Authors: Nancy Whittier , Tina Wildhagen , Howard Gold

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