Quantitative Variables
Quantitative variables are variables that can be measured numerically (Hogg, Mc Kean & Craig,2005) and they may include things like weight, height, temperature, the population of a town or even scores of a certain test. One general rule on quantitative variables is that they can be added together. There are two types of quantitative variables, discrete and continuous variables.
A discrete variable contains specific points on a scale an example is a class that might have 20 to 65 students but not 38.6 students. Continuous data is data that has continuous variables on the scale (Knapp, 2013). An example is a soccer team mandated to have between 7 to 11 players.
For my project, I thought about a project for building a social hall for my community. There was a total of 13 respondents, 7 of the male gender and 6 of the female gender. Don't use plagiarised sources.Get your custom essay just from $11/page
| gender | |||||
| Frequency | Percent | Valid Percent | Cumulative Percent | ||
| Valid | Male | 7 | 50.0 | 53.8 | 53.8 |
| Female | 6 | 42.9 | 46.2 | 100.0 | |
| Total | 13 | 92.9 | 100.0 | ||
| Missing | System | 1 | 7.1 | ||
| Total | 14 | 100.0 | |||
Below is a bar graph showing the distribution of the sampled data;
The attached descriptives of all questions are as shown;
| Statistics | |||||||||||
| q1 | q2 | q3 | q4 | q5 | q6 | q7 | q8 | q9 | q10 | ||
| N | Valid | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| Missing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Mean | 1.38 | 1.15 | 1.46 | 1.46 | 1.69 | 1.46 | 1.46 | .85 | 1.00 | 1.69 | |
| Median | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | .00 | .00 | 2.00 | |
| Mode | 1a | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0a | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| a. Multiple modes exist. The smallest value is shown | |||||||||||
For the first question which asked on the extent of need o the social hall building project, there was a mean of 1.38 which represents “sometimes” and nearly represents “frequently”. The median of the question is 1 representing “sometimes”. The modal answer was also 1 representing “sometimes” variable.
The question “Do you think the hall project will be a success?” had an average of 1.15, a median of 1 “sometimes” and a mode of 0 meaning many of the respondents never thought of the project as a success.
For the question “Do you think it should be open to everybody in the community?” had a mean of 1 “sometimes” median of 1 “sometimes” and a mode of 1 “sometimes’. The respondents were unsure about this.
For the question “Do you think it should be open to everybody in the community?” had a mean of 1.46 median of 1 and a mode of 1.
Question 5 had a mean of 1.69 median of 2 and a mode of 2. The majority of the respondents believed that the community will frequently get an impact on the construction of the hall.
Question 6 had a mean of 1, a median of 1.46 and a mode of 1. The respondents believed that “somehow” the community hall will help reduce the rate of idleness among community people.
For question 7, there was a mean of 1, a median of 1.46 and a mode of 0. The majority of the respondents, unfortunately, did not have a positive belief that the social hall will help boost the economy of the town.
Question 8 had a mean of 0.85, a median of 0.00 and a mode of 0. On enquiring whether the building of the social hall will be a success, the majority of the respondents lacked the belief it will prompt success hence the values 0 representing “Never”.
On question 9, the mean was 1 median 0 and mode 0. While an average number of respondents claimed that sometime the social hall might encourage monotonous activities among the community members, the majority believed it won’t encourage monotonous activities.
Question 10 had a mean of 1.69 median of 2 and a mode of 2. The majority of the respondents backed by the median mode and mean values thought the project should be done on other areas rather than the social hall building.