Sociology

Extra credit. 15 points will be added to your scores when I am averaging your grades.

Must be submitted as a COPY AND PASTE into Blackboard.

Do your own work; if I get the same write-ups from different students, neither will get any credit.

1. Go to the SDA Berkeley archive: http://sda.berkeley.edu/archive.htm

2. Scroll down and click on “2000 U.S. 1% PUMS”

Run the following analyses:

I. For this section, we want to examine education differences for select groups.

A. Asians

Row: educ2

Column: race2

Selection Filter(s) – race2(1,37,39,41,45,52),age(25-64) (COPY AND PASTE)

B. Middle Easterners (born outside the U.S.)

Row: educ2

Column: pob

Selection Filter(s) – pob(303,892,440,338),age(25-64) (COPY AND PASTE)

Use the data for the white population for comparison purposes. Write up your results in a single-spaced paragraph according to the instructions below.

II. For this section, you will examine racial or ethnic in occupation among the employed 25-64 year old age group.

A. Asians

Row: occupation

Column: race2

Selection Filter(s) – race2(1,37,39,41,45,52),age(25-64) (COPY AND PASTE)

B. Immigrants (born outside the U.S.)

Row: occupation

Column: pob

Selection Filter(s) – pob(303,892,440,338),age(25-64)

III. For this section, we want to examine racial or ethnic and gender differences in income among the 25-64 year-old age group.

Important: In order to examine income differences, you must first click on “Means” right above where you enter the “Row” variable.

A. Asians

Dependent: inctot

Row: race2

Column: sex

Selection Filter(s) – race2(1,37,39,41,45,52),age(25-64)

B. Select immigrant groups (born outside the U.S.)

Dependent: inctot

Row: pob

Column: sex

Selection Filter(s) – pob(303,892,440,338),age(25-64)

IV. Write-ups.

When sociologists examine this type of data, they try to tell the most interesting story possible with the data. For each section, discuss your most interesting findings. You should end up with a paragraph for each section, which means six paragraphs.

Number 1 Rule: Don’t interpret raw numbers, interpret PERCENTAGES (except for income). It makes more sense to say that 57% of Indians have bachelor’s degrees v. 42 % of Chinese than it does to say that 17,458 Indians have bachelors as opposed to 34,678 Chinese.

Each paragraph should consist of the following components:

A. A sentence in which you let the reader know what it is you are examining (i.e., education differences by select immigrant groups).

B. The body of the paragraph should contain what you think are some of the most interesting findings from the chart (3 or 4 interesting findings)

a. There should be a broad statement for each finding, i.e., Nigerians tend to have a fairly high education level).

b. Proof of the statement with numbers/data from the chart (i.e., X% of Nigerians have a graduate degree, Y % have a bachelor’s degree).

c. As stated above, there should be at least three of such findings per paragraph. You don’t have to talk about the entire data set.

C. An analysis/conclusion: What did you learn from the data? Can you explain any of it?

You should have six such paragraphs. You do not need a separate paragraph for the white population. You can integrate that data into each paragraph for comparison purposes.