ETHIOPIA CIVIL SERVICE UNIVERSITY

COLLAGE OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

MODULE- Research Methods and Techniques

ASSIGNMENT TITLE: - SPSS PRACTICAL GROUP ASSIGNMENT

Program:-MSC. Degree in Urban Planning

Name of G.M ID.NO
1.BIRHAN GERA ECSU2102487
2.ABDELA DAFO ECSU2102605
3.TESFAYE ALAZAR ECSU2102516
4.AZMACH GEZAHEGH ECSU2102510
5BINIYAM GIRMA ECSU2102507

Submitted To: - Degu. B (Ph.D.)

December / 2021

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

 1. See the data given and answer the following questions
A. What is the arithmetic mean, the median, mode, standard deviation, variance and range of
the beginning salary?
Answer

Statistics
Beginning Salary
N Valid 380
Missing 0
Mean $21,384.12
Median $15,000.00
Mode $15,000
Std. Deviation $15,932.617
Variance 253848289.12
8
Range $90,750

B. Generate pie-chart for employment category by using black and white colors and lines if
needed, label it and describe.

Answer
As we can see from the above table 290(76.32%) of the respondent were clerical, 67(17.63%) of
the respondent were mangers and 23(6.05%) of the respondnt were custodial. The finding
imp;ies that majority of employement catagories were clerical.

C. Generate a box plot, detect the extreme of the outlier for the current salary

Answer

Case Processing Summary

Cases
Valid Missing Total
N Percent N Percent N Percent
Current Salary 380 100.0% 0 0.0% 380 100.0%

The above box plot shows the distribution of current salary is negatively skewed.
D. Draw a histogram for current salary by superimposing the normal curve and then
comment on the shape
The shape shows that the data were positively skewed. Thus, is a show that the value of
skewness for a positively skewed distribution is greater than zero. As you might have already
understood by looking at the figure, the value of mean is the greatest one followed by median
and then by mode.

2. Find the coefficient of correlation among current salary, beginning salary, months since
hire and previous experience and describe the result.
Answer

Correlations
Current Beginning Months Previous
Salary Salary since Hire Experience
(months)
Current Salary Pearson Correlation 1 .252 **
.208 **
-.022
Sig. (2-tailed) .000 .000 .670
N 380 380 380 380
Beginning Salary Pearson Correlation .252 **
1 -.046 .004
Sig. (2-tailed) .000 .370 .945
N 380 380 380 380
Months since Hire Pearson Correlation .208 **
-.046 1 -.028
Sig. (2-tailed) .000 .370 .582
N 380 380 380 380
Previous Experience Pearson Correlation -.022 .004 -.028 1
(months) Sig. (2-tailed) .670 .945 .582
N 380 380 380 380
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

The above result shows that Pearson correlation coefficient for shows that H0 is rejected. All the
above variable have a statistically significant linear relationship (p < .001).
3. Test the hypothesis that says the mean salary of male and female employees is the same
using any appropriate parametric test and comment on the result.
Answer

Group Statistics

Gender N Mean Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean

Female 182 $31,726.02 $17,247.946 $1,278.503

Current Salary
Male 198 $45,446.77 $23,601.250 $1,677.268
 Independent Samples Test

Levene's Test for t-test for Equality of Means

Equality of Variances

F Sig. t df Sig. (2- Mean Std. Error 95% Confidence

tailed) Difference Difference Interval of the
Difference

Lower Upper

- -
Equal variances -
25.292 .000 -6.423 378 .000 $13,720.7 $2,136.196 $17,921.0
Curre assumed $9,520.436
51 66
nt
- -
Salary Equal variances not 360.11 -
-6.506 .000 $13,720.7 $2,108.980 $17,868.2
assumed 3 $9,573.287
51 15

There was a significant difference in mean salary between male and female (t360.113 = -6.506, p
< .001).

4. How much of the variation of the employees’ current salary is explained by the
employees’ beginning salary and how much of the variation of the same is explained by
employees’ education level?

Answer

a) employees’ current salary and employees’ beginning salary

Model Summary

Model R R Square Adjusted R Std. Error of the

Square Estimate

1 .252 a
.063 .061 $21,203.656

a. Predictors: (Constant), Beginning Salary

ANOVAa
Model Sum of df Mean Square F Sig.
Squares
1 Regression 11484700883 1 11484700883 25.545 .000b
 .294 .294
Residual 16994692841 378 449595048.7
7.956 25
Total 18143162930 379
1.250
a. Dependent Variable: Current Salary
b. Predictors: (Constant), Beginning Salary

Coefficientsa

Model Unstandardized Coefficients Standardized t Sig.

Coefficients

B Std. Error Beta

(Constant) 31486.951 1822.108 17.281 .000

1
Beginning Salary .346 .068 .252 5.054 .000

a. Dependent Variable: Current Salary

b) employees’ current salary and employees’ education level

Model Summary

Model R R Square Adjusted R Std. Error of the

Square Estimate

1 .442a .196 .193 $19,649.272

a. Predictors: (Constant), Educational Level (years)

ANOVAa

Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig.

35488135114.4 35488135114.4
Regression 1 91.916 .000b
73 73

145943494186.
1 Residual 378 386093899.965
777

181431629301.
Total 379
250

a. Dependent Variable: Current Salary

b. Predictors: (Constant), Educational Level (years)
 Coefficientsa

Model Unstandardized Coefficients Standardized t Sig.

Coefficients

B Std. Error Beta

(Constant) -6390.753 4827.866 -1.324 .186

1
Educational Level (years) 3373.422 351.865 .442 9.587 .000

a. Dependent Variable: Current Salary

5. Showing the clear step, calculate the current salary of an employee whose beginning
monthly salary is 24,000 birr, months since hire is 100 and previous experience 140.

Answer

Test Statistics

Beginning Months since Previous

Salary Hire Experience
(months)

Chi-Square 1113.384a 53.737b 427.126c

df 112 29 182
Asymp. Sig. .000 .003 .000

a. 113 cells (100.0%) have expected frequencies less than 5. The

minimum expected cell frequency is 3.4.
b. 0 cells (0.0%) have expected frequencies less than 5. The
minimum expected cell frequency is 12.7.
c. 183 cells (100.0%) have expected frequencies less than 5. The
minimum expected cell frequency is 2.1.