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Data Profile Assignment Students choose topic, may be related to other coursework. Must define a research problem and include a literature review Minimum tables and charts; minimum 12 pages of text. Must include an assessment of data reliability and validity. Suggested Outline for the data component of the assignment………

Data Profile: suggested outline International Data (table or bar chart): General U.S. trends. Elaboration (depends on the topic) Public opinion data Cross sectional bivariate analysis

Data Profile: suggested outline I. International Data (table or bar chart): Purpose: * Define the scope of the problem * Indicate that the U.S. has very high or very low rates or levels. examples: Gun Deaths, Education Test Scores, Health Care Costs, Taxes and Size of Government, Incarceration Rates (poor, better: page 3), Teen birth rate, Child Poverty, Homicide Rates,Gun DeathsEducation Test Scores Health Care CostsTaxesSize of Governmentpooretter: page 3Teen birth rateChild Poverty Homicide Rates DATA SOURCES

Data Profile: suggested outline II. General U.S. trends. Purpose: Is the problem becoming more or less serious? Examples: Incarceration Rate, Wealth and Inequality,Incarceration RateWealth and Inequality ImmigrationImmigration, Money and Politics, Corporate Taxes, Poverty.Money and PoliticsCorporate Taxes Poverty –alternative measures of key concepts : –Voter turnout; Crime RatesVoter turnoutCrime Rates

Data Profile: suggested outline III. Elaboration (depends on the topic) –Trends in related variables. –More detailed demographic breakdowns. –Consideration of causal relationships. education bureaucracy,bureaucracy –Decomposing observed relationships.

Data Profile: suggested outline IV. Public opinion data: Trends in public opinion regarding the topic, best if using time series survey data Trust in Government V. Cross sectional bivariate analysis (tables, scatterplots and boxplots) example: TV viewing, attitudes and math scoresTV viewingattitudes

Data Profile: suggested outline 4. Public opinion data: Trends in public opinion regarding the topic, best if using time series survey data 5. Cross sectional bivariate analysis (tables, scatterplots and boxplots) example: TV viewing, attitudes and math scoresTV viewingattitudes