What are the differences in your variable between countries? Compare the distribution of your chosen variable across your two selected countries carrying out

Researching Social Life II SC203/SC208

Your end of term assignment is a data analysis paper. The aim is to show that you have a good grasp of the basic
statistical methods we have covered in the module and that you can write up statistical findings in a clear and
competent way.
The dataset you will analyse is from the European Social Survey (Round 8, 2016). The European Social Survey
(ESS) is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe since 2001. Every two
years, face-to-face interviews are conducted with newly selected, cross-sectional samples. You can download the
dataset and find out about the survey design, the questionnaires and the data here and there is a copy on Moodle too:
www.europeansocialsurvey.org/about/
The task
Select a variable and two countries to compare; carry out some statistical analyses and write the results up in a short
report in sections as described below. Your report should be no more than 750-1000 words not including tables and
figures and references.
What you should do
First: select two countries that you want to compare. They need not include the UK. In SPSS, you can select those
two countries and either filter out the other countries or save a new version of your datafile, discarding the other
countries. (You will see how to do this in the lab, and here is a video tutorial on how to do it:
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/spss-statistics-essential-training/selecting-cases?u=51088249
Topics
There are lots of interesting subjective and attitudinal variables on topics such as personal values, welfare attitudes,
sexual identity as well as several demographic variables. Some of these are measured on 11 point scales, some on
four or five point scales. You can use any of them as if they are interval variables for the purposes of this assignment.
You can also treat those that have four or five points as categorical variables if you wish. The demographic variables
are a mixture of interval/ordinal variables. You will need to look at the 2016 questionnaire in order to see the full
wordings of the survey items:
https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/docs/round8/fieldwork/source/ESS8_source_questionnaires.pdf
Some background on each of the question topics covered in the dataset can be found in the following references:
Basic Values
https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/docs/methodology/core_ess_questionnaire/ESS_core_questionnaire_human_
values.pdf
Welfare attitudes
http://www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk/latest-report/british-social-attitudes-32/welfare.aspx
Fear of Crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_crime
Happiness and life satisfaction
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/behaviouralscience/2016/01/04/happiness-research-draws-our-attention-to-both-structure-andagency/
Health
http://esr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/05/16/esr.jcw019.full
Data analysis tasks
1. Select one subjective (that is to say, attitudes, values, beliefs) variable as your variable of interest. This is the
focus of your report. Write a paragraph explaining what your variable measures and what
sociological/psychological construct it taps into. You can include one or two references to literature on the
topic if you wish. (300 words max)
2. Using data from both of your chosen countries combined (what we call the pooled sample), do the following.
If your variable is quantitative then present in a table some summary statistics (mean, standard deviation,
range and confidence interval) and a histogram. If you are treating your variable as categorical (ie not more
than 5 possible values) then present a frequency table and a bar chart or histogram. Describe what you see
(250 words max)
3. What are the differences in your variable between countries? Compare the distribution of your chosen
variable across your two selected countries carrying out
a) a crosstabulation with chi2 test if your variable is categorical (up to five categories)
b) comparing means using an independent samples t-test if your variable is quantitative (five or more scale
points)
Write up what you see in terms of the differences in your variable between countries:
c) Are the distributions similar or different? If different (they almost certainly will be at least a bit different)
then say in what way (differences in mean, standard deviation, percentages in which categories and so on).
(250 words max)
d) Are the differences statistically significant? Interpret the results of either the t-test or the chi-square test,
depending on which you have carried out, to answer this question. You will need to mention what is the null
hypothesis and alternate hypothesis and to say what the p-value (sometimes shown as sig. in SPSS).
(200 words max)
General tips
Make sure that you label all of your tables and figures and include them in the main text, not in an appendix. Only
include SPSS output that you actually comment on in the text. You will not get marks for output that you do not
discuss. Format the report so that it looks neat and presentable. The easiest way to produce good tables and graphs is
by using Excel. You will get marks for presentation as well as what you write.
Some examples of the analyses and how to write up results:
Mean and standard deviation
https://0-methods-sagepub-com.serlib0.essex.ac.uk/dataset/disp-continuous-in-edfacts-cspr-2013
Frequency distribution tables
https://0-methods-sagepub-com.serlib0.essex.ac.uk/dataset/frequency-in-gss-2012
Crosstabulation
https://0-methods-sagepub-com.serlib0.essex.ac.uk/dataset/crosstab-education-in-gss-2012
Chi-Sq test
https://0-methods-sagepub-com.serlib0.essex.ac.uk/dataset/chi2-in-gss-2012
T-test
https://0-dx-doi-org.serlib0.essex.ac.uk/10.4135/9781473937789

Summarize, for the investors, what legal liabilities could arise for the directors or officers of that corporation. How could those liabilities for the directors and officers be minimized?

business forms and governance 13Resources
Legal Environment of Business: Online Commerce, Business Ethics, and Global Issues: Ch. 14, 15,
and 16
Week 2 resources from the University Library
Business Entities Assignment
Scenario: You are a sole proprietor presenting to a group of investors, seeking 20 million dollars to
raise capital for your solar panel manufacturing and installation company, Solar Co.
Prepare a 7- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Microsoft® Sway®, or Prezi® presentation
with speaker notes for your potential investors, and address the following items:
Choose one type of business entity that you plan to use for Solar Co., and explain why you would
choose this type of entity rather than the others. What risks and issues specific to this industry and
Solar Co.’s business influenced your decision?
Assume that at least one investor will question whether Solar Co. should be organized as a
corporation. Summarize, for the investors, what legal liabilities could arise for the directors or officers
of that corporation. How could those liabilities for the directors and officers be minimized?

What is the Dao and what are the principles of Ying and Yang?

Essay topic:
What is the Dao and what are the principles of Ying and Yang? How does an understanding of these concepts lead us to live according to the principle of wuwei? What does the ideal Daoist political state look like? What do you find attractive or unattractive about this view?

Provide a description of an existing intervention in Canada, intended to improve health inequities. Include an explanation of the inequity and how the intervention targets upstream determinants of health. Describe the organizations involved and/or social policies enacted in the implementation of the intervention. Explain whether or not the intervention was/is successful and what lessons public health practitioners can learn from that experience that might improve population health in the United States.

The Canadian Best Practices Portal challenges Canadian public health practitioners and researchers to create upstream interventions aimed at the source of a population health problem or benefit. What is being done to address the influences on population health in Canada?
To prepare for this Assignment, review your Learning Resources. Search the Internet and scholarly
research for examples of Canadian “upstream interventions†that can be put forth as examples of
either effective or ineffective efforts to improve population health.
The Assignment
Provide a description of an existing intervention in Canada, intended to improve health inequities.
Include an explanation of the inequity and how the intervention targets upstream determinants of
health.
Describe the organizations involved and/or social policies enacted in the implementation of the
intervention.
Explain whether or not the intervention was/is successful and what lessons public health
practitioners can learn from that experience that might improve population health in the United
States.
Expand on your insights utilizing the Learning Resources.
Use APA formatting for your Assignment and to cite your resources.
“CUSTOM PAPER”
community discussion 11
School Health
Occupational Health
Please read chapter 29 and 30 of the class textbook and review the attached PowerPoint
presentations. Once done answer the following questions;
1. Discuss how Healthy People 2020 can be used to shape the care given in a school health setting.
Give at least one example.
2. Identify and discuss the eight components of a comprehensive school health program.
3. Identify and discuss the skills and competencies germane to occupational health nursing.
4. Describe and discuss a multidisciplinary approach for the resolution of occupational health issues.

INSTRUCTIONS:
Present your assignment in an APA format word document, Arial 12 font . A minimum of 3 evidencebased
references besides the class textbook no older than 5 years must be used and quoted
according to APA guidelines. A minimum of 800 words is required. Please make sure to follow the
instructions as given and use either spell-check or Grammarly before you post your assignment. I will
also pay close attention to spelling and/or grammar. Please review the rubric attached to the lecture

Identify a state or national politician , or aide, whom you would like to interview regarding current issues in health care reform. Write a 3 page paper providing a summary and analysis of the interview and the health care reform issues you discussed.

Identify a state or national politician , or aide, whom you would like to interview regarding current issues in health care reform.
As soon as possible, contact the individual’s office to request a meeting. Keep in mind that it may be difficult to get on their calendar, so plan accordingly. You may conduct the interview in person or by phone.
In advance of the interview, ask yourself:
What health care policy issue is important to me personally?
What issue do I want to bring to this person’s attention?
With this in mind, develop your list of questions for the interview around your selected health policy issue. In addition, you may wish to include questions related to health care reform:
What are your constituents most concerned about regarding health care reform?
What are the trade-offs associated with recent health care reform policy?

To complete:

Write a 3 page paper providing a summary and analysis of the interview and the health care reform issues you discussed.

Using Bronfenbrenner’s ecological stage theory, how has covid-19 impacted your microsystem, exosystem, mesosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem? Take a sentence to explain each type of system in your own words and then cite an example of how this pandemic has impacted your environment in the way described by Bronfenbrenner.

Covid -19 has reared its ugly head and impacted us in so many ways. Using Bronfenbrenner’s ecological stage theory, how has covid-19 impacted your microsystem, exosystem, mesosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem? Take a sentence to explain each type of system in your own words and then cite an example of how this pandemic has impacted your environment in the way described by Bronfenbrenner.

In Piaget’s theory, what do the words schema, accommodation and assimilation mean in your own words? Describe examples of assimilation and accommodation that an infant might display.

In Piaget’s theory, what do the words schema, accommodation and assimilation mean in your own words? Describe examples of assimilation and accommodation that an infant might display. Bring the concepts to life with your examples. Which concept is more important in infancy…assimilation or accommodation? Make your case.

Review the Lavis et al. article on preparing and writing policy briefs provided in the Learning Resources. Select one of the recommendations within the IOM The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health: Report Recommendations to focus on for this assignment. Research the history of the problem behind the recommendation and what has been done to try to solve the problem

Health Policy Proposal Analysis (Policy Brief)

Review the Lavis et al. article on preparing and writing policy briefs provided in the Learning Resources.
Select one of the recommendations within the IOM The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health: Report Recommendations to focus on for this assignment.
Research the history of the problem behind the recommendation and what has been done to try to solve the problem.
What does the recommendation say should be done? Are there any groups, nursing and others, currently supporting work to implement the recommendation ? Does the recommendation suggest specific groups that should be involved in the implementation? Think critically about how the recommendation should be implemented – did the IOM get it right?

Develop a scholarly and professionally written 2 page single-spaced policy brief on the recommendation you selected from the IOM report following the format presented in the Lavis et al. article. Include the following:
Short introduction with statement of the problem.
The selected recommendation
Background
Current characteristics
The impact of the recommendation from the perspective of consumers, nurses, other health professionals, and additional stakeholders
Current solutions
Current status in the health policy arena
Final conclusions
Resources used to create the policy brief

How has the level of trust in the Media changed over the past 50 years as technology and the social struction of the American people has changed? What is the current state of trust in the media? Has the definition of a “Fact” changed in recent years?

Free Press Origins, Trust in Media, & Sources

Watch Frontline: “News War: Part 3 What’s Happening to The News” https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-news-war-whats-happening-news/

Watch the short video created by The Pew Center For Social Research

Trust in America: Do Americans trust the news media?(https://www.pewresearch.org/2022/01/05/trust-in-america-do-americans-trust-the-news-media/)

Then read the Opinion piece published on the erosion of trust in American Media from the Heritage Foundation available here
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/2021-media-did-more-erode-trust-repair-it

Based on your viewing and reading, answer the following:
American Trust in Media
– How has the level of trust in the Media changed over the past 50 years as technology and the social struction of the American people has changed?
– What is the current state of trust in the media?
– Has the definition of a “Fact” changed in recent years?
– How has media truts influenced the following issues impacting Americans today
– The Covid-19 Pandemic
– The attack/protest on the US Capitol one year ago on January 6th 2021
– The role of Race and America’s History of Dealing with Race in education
– The job that Police Forces are doing in America
– Should Americans be permitted to freely own and carry guns.
Briefly and concisely, address these questions in an essay of 275 words. Attribute all sources in some formal mechanism such as footnoes, endnotes or a “Works Cited” list

Using any or all of these skills, provide a persuasive argument to your manager (the instructor) why you should be given a pay raise.

Negotiation tactics and characteristics of a supply management professional that are helpful when negotiating.

Using any or all of these skills, provide a persuasive argument to your manager (the instructor) why you should be given a pay raise.
Be prepared to respond to your manager’s objections.
Guided Response: Your initial post should contain at least 150 words.