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Research Report 1 Data FilesSOWK 300 Computer Applications in the Social Sciences Spring 2011

LaShauna M. Crayton T TH 02

HYPOTHESIS

In this project, I researched how marital status and

income relates. The respondents that are married will

have income than those that are separated. One reason

could be that the marry respondents has more than one

income source versus the respondents who has never

marry. The dependent variable is income and its values

are as follows: less than 1000 2500 or more, althoughsome of the respondents refused the question and some

also didnt know their income. The independent variable

is marital status and the values are married, widowed,

divorced, separated, and never.

Another variable that was measure in this research is the

control variable, which is race. The values of the control

variable are: white, blacks and others

RATIONALE

When married you have help with a lot of things; it s more

than you taking care of things alone. You have a spouse thatyou depend on, in a relationship you are able to split bills in

half and to also take up the slack when the other person is

lacking. A married couple income doubles each year

because in their household there are two income sources

coming to one house. The respondents that are widowsshould also have a higher income than independent (never

married) respondents. Im sure that their spouse had a job

with benefits that left them a stipend once they deceased.

The respondents that are independent income are very low

because they dont have any help; its only one income

source in the household. Race has a big effect on therelationship between income and the marital status of some

respondents. Now that race is included you can see which

race has the highest income in each marital status. The

Caucasians respondents that are married will have the

highest income; they tends to f ind good high paying jobs

and most of the Caucasians population are further their

education to get better jobs

The black respondents in the same income category

36.8 of them informed that they income is about 25000 or more, 9.1

of them are widows, 26.4 are divorced, 13.4 are separated, and

21.1 has never been married. Most of the respondents that

reported that they had an income of 25000 or more were in the

married category. The married category had a higher percentage in

almost every category. Also both the black and Caucasians

respondents that were married also had a higher percentage in thetop dollars. The respondents that had never been married had a

high percentage in the 25000 or more category.

MULTIVARIATE GRAPH 1

1.GSS Database

References

In the income category of 25000 or more, 47.4 of the respondents

reported that they were married, 13.9 of them were widows, 32.4 of them

were divorced, 22.9 of the where separated and 32.6 of them where nevermarried. .5 of the married respondents stated that they have an income

of a 1000 or less, 1.4 of the respondents were widows, 1.7 were divorced,

4.1 were separated, and 2.6 were never married. 48.2 of the Caucasian

respondents reported that they have an income

of 25000 or more, while 14.5 of the respondents are widows and 33.4

divorced. 29.3 of them are separated and 35.2 have never been married.

BIVARIATE GRAPH 1

Figure_1.The total family income by marital

status

The individuals that took this survey were mostly

successful in life. My hypothesis was right that the

respondents that were married would have a higher income

than those who never been married. As I stated before, the

responds from those who never been married were very

high, my rationale were also right because the respondents

that are married do have a someone to lean on, their

spouse. The results of the respondents that never been

married were only 15.7 respond off to be tied with themarried respondents. All the results were very shocking to

me, I would have thought that the percentage of the

never been married responds would be low in the incomerange 25000 or more. In conclusion, I

guess that if a person really wants to make top dollars they

would do whatever it takes to have a

high income. The people that have help or some kind of

benefits have a greater advantage in

having a higher income than those who are independent.

Benefits could consist of a child supportcheck or even social security.

Conclusions

Caucasians Blacks

Figure 1 Total Income by Marital Status Controlling forRace