Question

The following table is taken from the results of a longitudinal study of children from a working class community. The study began when these children entered kindergarten and were four or five years old. The information reported below was collected when the respondents were 18.

Using the information from the table below, answer the following questions:

Started fight before the age of 15

	Boys	Girls	Row Total
No	163	184	347
	(47.0%)	(53.0%)	(89.9%)
Yes	32	7	39
	(82.1%)	(17.9%)	(10.1%)
Column Total	195	191	Grand Total
	(50.5%)	(49.5 %)	386

χ² = 15.9; p <.05

1. What percentage of boys started fights before the age of 15?
2. How many girls responded that they did not start fights before age of 15?
3. Are the proportions of children who started fights similar or different for boys and girls? If yes how are they similar? If no, how are they different?
4. Are these variables significantly related? Indicate the statistical information you used to make your decision.
5. What are the social work interventions of these findings?

Answer 1