Assignment 2- spring 2018

Part 1 Descriptive statistics – Data preparation

Q1. Before the manager can ….

Answer: The preliminary steps which need to be completed are which are as follows:

Checking the questionnaire, Editing, coding, transcribing, checking for consistency, cleaning,
statistical adjustments and checking for any blank responses.

Q2. Consider the following visual data (pie chart, bar graph, histogram, and box plot).

a. Which visual display are...

Answer: the best visual display for summarizing the six constructs is pie chart as the total
items can represent the complete set and the total items can act as a slice in the pie. If the
total circle represents 45 in the pie chat, then the first slice can represent items 1 to 5, which
is total 5 items, and the next slice is items 6-11, having total 6 items, and so on till items 31-
45 which represents 15 items. Each slice in the pie can also be labeled as the respective
constructs and name of the measure can also be given.

b. Which visual displays are …

Answer: The visual display which can be used to summarize the demographic variable is the
Bar chart. The two bars for each demographic would represent # of category and # of item in
the questionnaires.

For instance:

# of years worked

Work Unit

# of questioannaire
# of CAtegories
Gender

Age

0 10 20 30 40 50 60
3. Consider the following statistical measures of data (mean, median, mode and S.d.)

a. which measures are appropriate ….

Answer: The measure which is appropriate in summarizing the six constructs is mean as it
provides the average of the responses. For instance, the average of the responses to Question
1-5 measure Participation in Decision making

b. which measures are …

Answer: the measure which is appropriate in summarizing the demographic variable is

median and mode

4. The variables ….

Answer: Considering the construct “organizational commitment” the items in the

questionnaire which measures the items 31-45 have to be reverse coded.