Force Field Analysis of [Insert Your Trend Here]

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Force Field Analysis of Insert Your Trend Here

• Your Name
• Political Sociology class
• Rutgers University
• Camden NJ
• Fall 2003

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The trend I am examining is...

• Choose a variable from the TrendSmp.mc4 file
  available in Microcase in the computer labs.
  Type its name here.
• It is defined as Type in the variable
  definition as given in the Variable Description
  box

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Instructions

• Use microcase to produce a trend graph for your
  variable
• Copy the trend graph using edit and copy
• Paste it into the next slide.
• Then delete this instruction slide with edit
  and delete slide

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A Graph of Trends in My Variable
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My Analysis of the Trends in the Graph

• First observation
• Second observation

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Instructions On the next screen, list the
forces that tend to drive the trend line up on
the left and the forces that drive the trend line
down on the right and assign a score to each from
1 (weak) to 5 (strong). Then delete this slide.
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• Forces driving the trend line up

• Forces driving the trend line down

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My Prediction of Future Trends

• I predict in the future the trend line will go
  up, down, be level, cycle
• I believe this because ..