Question

This is an SPSS question:

Demographic data for 1000 individuals is contained in the file demographic.sav. Use SPSS to conduct a test to determine if the four levels of education are equally likely using α = 0.05.

Question 2: Using the data from question 1, conduct a test in SPSS to determine if there is a relationship between level of education and employment using α = 0.05.

I dont want someone to solve this for me, i just need to know what would the null and alternate hypotheses for these be?

Answer 1

test to determine if the four levels of education are equally likely

Since level of education will be categorical (eg.graduate , PG) and we need to know if they are equally likely or in simple if there are significant differences and given all are independent samples. We can use a One -factor ANOVA testing since there are more than 2 groups.

All four levels of education are equally likely.

All four levels of education are not equally likely.

to determine if there is a relationship between level of education and employment

(I am assuming that group is being divided into employed and unemployed and data is presented in a form of contingency table. In this employment will also be a categorical data set).

Since there are two categorical data set we will use chi-square test for independence.

There is no relationship between the levels of education and employment.

There is a significant relationship between the levels of education and employment.