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Draft Social Research Report
Anthony Urbanowski
SS3150 – Research Methods
17 July 2015
Kimberly Clark
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Draft Social Research Report
ABSTRACT:
Project Part one of this assignment entails a rough draft for a qualitative research question. This report is divided into part as required by the project guideline handout, the give research question, the methodology that was used in the research and finally literature. The qualitative research question as previously mentioned is “How has unemployment affect student graduates in the past several years?”
This study posed an important research questions: “How unemployment affect student has graduates in the past five years?” The nature of these relationships, which is not addressed in current literature, could help school personnel and community leaders to further address the school dropout problem. To answer these research questions, the unemployment rate and the dropout rate for each of the 100 counties and 105 school districts in North Carolina were analyzed. In addition, a literature review of relevant related articles was conducted.
Introduction
The main aim of this study is to distinguish the link between unemployment with both college and high school graduation rates. The information gathered from this report can come in handy when determining how to spend government efforts to grow the economy that is if it can be proven that school dropouts caused slow economy growth for the past five years. With that given that, it would mean that unemployment rates affect the high school and college graduation rates, thus automatically making the null that high school and college graduation rates are the causes of the high unemployment rate. The aim of the research will then to make the null true. For the purpose of proving this a vast amount of data will be collected and the research done would have to be trustworthy and also extracted from verified sources for the conclusion to be accurate.
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Literature Review
In this part of the report, the overview of the literary work that was use for the purpose of conclusion and analysis are displayed.
Amos, Jason. "Unemployment Rate For High School Dropouts Soars in Latest Government Jobs Report." Alliance For Excellent Education Unemployment Rate For High School Dropouts Soars in Latest Government Jobs Report Comments. N.p., 08 Oct. 2010. Web. 01 Aug. 2014.
In this article the data that was used was from a research done by a licensed third party in order to register the unemployment rates for a three years gap between 2007 and the year 2010. The research examines unemployment rates by level of education completion across a US national average.
Anderson, Marie. "High School Dropouts Vs. Unemployment." Everyday Life. Global Post, n.d. Web. 01 Aug. 2014.
The article references research performed by “Alliance for excellent education” and provides little data but concludes that while unemployment is always highest for the less educated, the gap between the various levels stays relatively similar and that it is other external factors and not your education degree level that has the highest impact on your chances of employment.
Peng and Takai (1983) showed the complexity of the dropout dilemma using the High School and Beyond (HSB) longitudinal data. A key finding of Peng and Takai was that most of the dropouts reported they regretted their decisions to leave school early. Within a two- year period after dropping out, the participants in the study reported unemployment in addition to poor job satisfaction because of being trapped in low-paying jobs.
McCaul (1989) used data from the National Center of Educational Statistics’ High School and Beyond (HSB) study to identify some of the consequences of dropping out of school. More specifically, the study looked at salary for current job, work satisfaction, extent of unemployment, and number of jobs held.
Almost 600 dropouts participated in all four areas of the HSB study as well as over 1,300 graduates.Analysis revealed that dropouts reported lower work satisfaction, changed jobs more often, and experienced longer periods of unemployment as compared to the high school graduates.
Methodology
Though it appears a thorough state by state test has not been performed to the level desired, the analysis from the data from the various research articles and the actual test research they reference all conclude that the unemployment rate does affect whether people attend or stay in school, but the swing affects high school dropouts and master degree holders all the same with just a difference in baseline unemployment. There was no found research indicating that the lack of positions filled due to qualifications has significant weight in whether or not people complete college and only a slight impact on their field of study. For the most part, Americans pursue the field they are most interested in and not the highest in demand.
Conclusion
This research looks at the unemployment rates on a specific scale looking state by state at the unemployment rates, then examining the high school and college graduation rates, including the graduates field of study. It examines the amount of open jobs that went unfilled for the same period of time due to not having the qualified persons available for the positions. The timeline will be examined year-by-year dating back from 2012-20087as results for 2013 are not completely available. Based on the findings of the research sources found to be valid and in the time frame desired. This research finds sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis that education levels have the highest impact on unemployment rates for the past five years.
Reference:
Employment Growth in Rural Areas, Andrew Crookston, ASA
http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.itt-tech.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=85f0fb4c-cc00-4c15-b3f9-63ede4dfbcd1%40sessionmgr4001&vid=2&hid=4205
Do recessions keep students in school? Damon Clark, Economica 2009
Underemployment and College Graduates, Jon James & Chris Vecchio, Regional Economics
Anderson, Marie. "High School Dropouts Vs. Unemployment." Everyday Life. Global Post, n.d. Web. 01 Aug. 2014.
Amos, Jason. "Unemployment Rate For High School Dropouts Soars in Latest Government Jobs Report." Alliance For Excellent Education Unemployment Rate For High School Dropouts Soars in Latest Government Jobs Report Comments. N.p., 08 Oct. 2010. Web. 01 Aug. 2014
