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Assignment SQQS 2013

The document provides instructions for a group project assignment in Applied Statistics. Students must collect data from at least 100 respondents using a provided questionnaire on Malaysian undergraduate students' income and expenses. They must then analyze the data in SPSS and answer 10 questions, providing relevant SPSS output. The questions cover topics like constructing diagrams of respondent characteristics, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing on mean income differences, and relationships between income, expenses, and demographic factors. The project is due on December 15th.

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Assignment SQQS 2013

The document provides instructions for a group project assignment in Applied Statistics. Students must collect data from at least 100 respondents using a provided questionnaire on Malaysian undergraduate students' income and expenses. They must then analyze the data in SPSS and answer 10 questions, providing relevant SPSS output. The questions cover topics like constructing diagrams of respondent characteristics, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing on mean income differences, and relationships between income, expenses, and demographic factors. The project is due on December 15th.

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APPLIED STATISTICS (SQQS2013) GROUP PROJECT (20%)

INSTRUCTIONS 1. The members for each group must be at least 3 members and not exceed 5 members. The report must be consists of: a) Cover sheet with: i. Color: LIGHT PURPLE A4 PAPER. ii. Information: - Course group (A, B, or K). - Matric number in ascending (smallest to largest) followed by the name of group members. - Lecturers name. - Date of submission. b) Table of Contents. c) Answer sheet: - Answer all questions. - Use SPSS to analyze the data. - Report must be in handwriting EXCEPT the SPSS output. Refer the example in appendix. - Please enclose the appropriate and useful SPSSs output for each question. d) References list at least TWO reference books. e) Binding: tape or ring WITHOUT plastic cover. Answer ALL questions based on YOUR OWN DATA SET collected using the given questionaire.

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6. The due date: 15st DECEMBER 2011 (THURSDAY).

QUESTION (50 MARKS) You want to study the Malaysian undergraduate students income and expenses. Using the given questionnaire in APPENDIX A, collect at least 100 data. Key in your collected data in SPSS, thus analyze it and answer the following question.

a) Tabulate your data. (4 marks) b) Construct 3 different diagrams, to show the distribution of your respondent based on their gender, races, and whether they have any extra income or not. (6 marks) c) Find the 99% confidence interval for the mean of monthly family income. Interpret your answer. (3 marks) d) Do hypothesis testing to test whether the mean of monthly family income is greater than RM 2000 at 5% level of significance. (5 marks) e) Based on suitable descriptive analysis, which races appear to have the highest mean family income? Test at 5% significant level whether we can conclude that the mean family incomes are different among races. (7 marks) f) Is there any evidence to conclude that students who receive allowance from family, come from family with higher mean monthly income compared to students who dont receive any allowance from family? Use = 0.02. (5 marks) g) Can we conclude that the number of students who do part-time job, receive allowance from family and having both part-time job and allowances from family are equally distributed at 5% significant level? (5 marks) h) Do types of expenditure category related to either they have an extra income or not? Use = 0.05. (5 marks) i) Do number of students in all types of expenditure equally distributed based on their gender? Use = 0.01. (5 marks) j) Based on 4 expenditure categories, is there any difference on the mean percentage of total income that the student spend most of their money on? Use = 0.02 (5 marks)

APPENDIX A: QUESTIONAIRE This questionnaire is part of the required course work for students of SQQS2013 (Applied Statistics). We hope you could kindly express your cooperation to give feedback for this study. Thank you. Part A: Respondent Profile 1. Gender : 2. Race: Male Malay Female Chinese Indian others

3. Monthly family income: RM_______________

Part B: Personal Monthly income and Expenses 4. Do you have any extra income besides your study loan? (such as part-time job and allowances from family) Yes No

(if yes, please answer question 5) 5. Where does this extra income comes from? Part-time job Allowance from family Both part-time job and allowance from family

6. Among 4 expenditures categories given below, which category would you say you spend most of your money on monthly? Study materials (books, stationary etc) Communications (hand phones, broadband etc) Personal care (clothes, hygiene, entertainment etc) Transportation (car, motorcycle etc) 7. Based on your answer in question 6, how many percent of your money that you spend on the selected category? Answer: _________ %

APPENDIX B
Example of answer QUESTION 1 a) SPSS Output:
One-Sample Test

Sales

t 3.917

df 915

Test Value = 40 Sig. (2-tailed) Mean Differen ce .000 2.504

95% Confidence Interval of the Difference Lower 1.25 Upper 3.76

Solution: a) H0: = 40

vs

H1: 40 < = 0.05

p = 0.000 Reject H0

We have enough evidence to conclude that the mean sales are not equal to 40.

THIS ANSWER MUST BE IN HANDWRITING

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