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2 days ago

Romel Jimera 

What is the Relationship Between Marital Status and Residential Dwelling?

The respondent's mean age is 49.01, verifying the use of the General Social Survey dataset in SPSS ver. 28.

Research Question

Does marital status determine whether one should own a home or rent a place to live? Do most single persons rent as opposed to owning, or do most married couples own as opposed to renting? Will they purchase a home, rent, or make alternative living arrangements when they split up or divorces? My research question is, what is the relationship between marital status and the type of residential dwelling (owning or renting)? Moreover, a simple correlation design with descriptive statistics would align with the research question.

          H1: There is a relationship between marital status and residential dwelling.

          H0: There is no relationship between marital status and residential dwelling.

Variables

The respondent's residential status is the dependent variable. It is a nominal variable determined by whether the individual owns or rents a residence, among other factors. The independent variable is the marital status of the responder. It is a nominal variable that they can answer, whether they are married, widowed, divorced, separated, or have never been married.

Categorical Data Analysis

The above table shows some association between marital status and residential dwelling: 78% of the married respondents own a home, and 21.5% rent. Similarly, 75% of widowed are homeowners, with 22.9% renting. Of those who are divorced, approximately 57.3% of them still own homes, while 39.9% rent. However, renting a residence is mostly common for those separated (61.5%) and those who are never married (59.7%). Thus, the frequency distributions of marital status are different for the residential dwelling types.

Significance and Strength of the Effect

There is a significant relationship between the two variables. The proportion of respondents who reported owning or renting a home differs by marital status, X2 (8, N = 1668) = 221.76, p = < .001. The relationship has statistical significance. Thus, rejecting the null hypothesis.

 Since five categories are involved, Cramer's V value of .258 is considered moderately substantial and statistically significant, p = < .001.

Conclusion There is a significant relationship between marital status and residential dwelling types. The relationship is statistically significant and has a slightly moderate effect on strength. Therefore, we assumed that most individuals who have never been married rent, and those who want to get married should save up to buy their dream home. If the marriage fails, there is a 40-60 percent probability that they will lose their house.

It has been a pleasure learning from you all. Thank you, and best of luck! - Romel

References

Walden University, LLC. (Producer). (2016a). Bivariate categorical tests [Video file]. Author.

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