Effects of Parental Education on Girls' Education Refer to Exercise 10.8. The data table compares 15-year-old girls who are either attending school or have dropped out, in order to understand the impact of parental education on them. Report the observed value of the chi-square statistic.
Exercise 10.8
Effects of Parental Education on Girls' Education Refer to Exercise 10.7. This data table compares 15-year-old girls who are either attending school or have dropped out, in order to understand the impact of parental education on them. The table shows the relationship between girls' education and parental education.
a. Find the row, column, and grand totals, and prepare a table showing these values as well as the counts given.
b. Find the percentage of girls who are studying.
c. Find the expected number of girls having educated parents who would study, if the variables are independent. Multiply the proportion overall that were studying times the number of girls having educated parents. Do not round off to a whole number. Round to two decimal digits.
d. Find the other expected counts. Report them in a table with the same orientation as the one for the data.
Exercise 10.7
Effects of Parental Education on Boys' Education A study done by the IZA Journal of Labour Economics in the United Kingdom in 2013 compared 15-year-old boys who are either attending school or have dropped out, in order to understand the impact of parental education on them. The table shows the relationship between boys' education and parental education.
a. Find the row, column, and grand totals, and prepare a table showing these values as well as the counts given.
b. Find the percentage of boys who are studying.
c. Find the expected number of boys having educated parents who would study, if the variables are independent. Multiply the proportion overall that were studying times the number of boys having educated parents. Do not round off to a whole number. Round to two decimal digits.
d. Find the other expected counts using your knowledge so that the expected counts must add to the row and column totals. Report them in a table with the same orientation as the one given for the data.