2. Income inequality in the United States is a complex matter, and people have d

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2. Income inequality in the United States is a complex matter, and people have diverse and con- flicting ideas on how to best address it. For this exercise, we present GSS 2014 SPSS analysis of political party identification and the variable HELPPOOR, which measures support of the statement whether the government in Washington should do everything possible to improve goverment the standard of living of all poor Americans. HELPPOOR is measured on a scale 1 = action to 5 = each person sbould take care o bmsel A score of 3 indicates agreement to both strategies. a. What percentage of Democrats indicate that government action is necessary to help poor Americans? What percentage of Republicans indicated the same? b. The chi-square obtained is 119.53. Based on an alpha of.01, what can you conclude about the relationship between political party identification and HELPPOOR? Government Action Agree to Both 142 People Help 2 4 Themselves Total 30 Democrat 50 324 Independent4018 163 Republican Total 15 10 70 124 78 303 115 112

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a)% of Democrats indicate that government action is necessary =69/324 =0.2130~ 21.30%

)% of Republicans indicate that government action is necessary =15/245 =6.12%

b)

degree of freedom =(row-1)*(column-1)=(3-1)*(5-1)=8

for 8 df and 0.01 level ; critical value =20.090

as chi square test statistic is greater then critical value therefore we can conclude that political party identiifcation and Helppoor are dependent.

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