For this Introduction to Quantitative Analysis: Descriptive Analysis Assignment, you will examine the same two variables you used from your Week 2 Assignment and perform the appropriate des

For this Introduction to Quantitative Analysis: Descriptive Analysis Assignment, you will examine the same two variables you used from your Week 2 Assignment and perform the appropriate descriptive analysis of the data given.

To prepare for this Assignment:

Review this week’s Learning Resources and the Central Tendency and Variability media program.

For additional support, review the Skill Builder: Measures of Central Tendency for Continuous Variables, Skill Builder: Standard Deviation as a Measure of Variability for Continuous Variables and the Skill Builder: Measures of Central Tendency and Variability for Categorical Variables.

Using the SPSS software, open the High School Longitudinal Study dataset from your Assignment in Week 2.

Choose the same two variables you chose from your Week 2 Assignment and perform the appropriate descriptive analysis of the data.

Once you perform your descriptive analysis, review Chapter 11 of the Wagner text to understand how to copy and paste your output into your Word document.

Write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis of your descriptive analysis results and include a copy and paste your output from your analysis into your final document.

Based on the results of your data, provide a brief explanation of what the implications for social change might be. Early in your Assignment, when you relate which dataset you analyzed, please include the mean of the following variables.  If you are using the HS Long Survey Dataset, report the mean of X1SES.

Use appropriate APA format, citations and referencing. Refer to the APA manual for appropriate citation.