Attitudes Toward Childrearing

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Attitudes Toward Childrearing

• Spring 2005

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Sample Comparison-Census Data
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Income Comparison

• Median Household Income L.A. County 42,189
• Median Household Income California 47,493
• Median Household Income U.S. 41,994
• Median Group in our Sample Group 7- which is
  61,000 to 70,000

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Given this Comparisons, how comparable do you
think our sample is?
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Exploring the Data- Religious Service Attendance

• How religious is our sample?

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Question 7

• 7. How often do you attend religious services
  (Excluding special events such as weddings or
  funerals)?
• ? More than ? About ? 1-3 times ? A few ?
  Less than ? Never
• Once a week Weekly a month times a Year Once
  a year

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Religiousity
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Does Religious Service Attendance Vary By Gender?
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Bar Graph
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• Hypothesis Women attend religious services more
  often than men.
• Null Hypothesis There is no relationship
  between sex/gender and how often one attends
  religious services.

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Step one Recode Gender

• Only males and females are covered by our
  hypothesis.

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• 8. What religion do you consider yourself to be?
• ? Catholic ? Christian ? Hindu ? Jewish ?
  Muslim
• ? Protestant ? Buddhist ? Agnostic ?
  Atheist ? Other

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Recode of Religion

• 11 Catholic
• 2,62 Christian
• 3 3-5, 10 Other
• 4 7 Buddhist
• 5 8-9 Atheist /Agnostic

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Recode of Religion
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Does Religion Affect Attendance?
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Creating Gender Traditionalism Index

• 21. Boys should not be allowed to play with
  Barbie dolls.
• 23. It is not as important to teach sons to cook
  and clean as it is to teach daughters.
• 24. It is not as important for girls to get a
  college education as it is for boys.
• 25. Girls need more love and affection from
  their parents than boys do.
• 26. Daughters need to be nurtured more than sons.
• 27. During the teenage years, boys and girls
  should have the same curfews when going to a
  party.
• 30. Boys should be given outside chores (mowing
  the lawn), and girls should be given inside
  chores (washing dishes).
• 47. Generally speaking, boys need to be spanked
  more than girls.? Strongly agree ? Agree ?
  Neither ? Disagree ? Strongly disagree

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Select for Index

• 21. Boys should not be allowed to play with
  Barbie dolls.
• 23. It is not as important to teach sons to cook
  and clean as it is to teach daughters.
• 24. It is not as important for girls to get a
  college education as it is for boys.
• 27. During the teenage years, boys and girls
  should have the same curfews when going to a
  party.
• 30. Boys should be given outside chores (mowing
  the lawn), and girls should be given inside
  chores (washing dishes).

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Do they all run the same way?

• In every case but one, I would expect the higher
  ones level of agreement, the more traditional
  one is.
• No, all run the same way except for 27

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Recode 27

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• 24
• 33
• 42
• 51
• sysmissysmis

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Constructing a Complex Index

• Transform
• Compute
• Target Variable INDEX, Numeric Expression
  (Variable1 Variable2VariableX)
• Nmiss 0

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• Possible Values Range from 5-25. The higher ones
  score the more traditional one is.

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Recode the Index

• 5-11 Low
• 12-18 Medium
• 19-25 High

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Confirming the Index
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Testing a Hypothesis

• Hypothesis There is a relationship between
  gender traditionalism and spanking.
• Null There is no relationship between gender
  traditionalism and spanking.

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Pearsons r

• By squaring r, we know that 13 of the variation
  in number of sex partners is explained by
  religious fundamentalism.

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Regression

• Constructing a regression equation
• SEX Partners 31.85 (1.629 X ReligIndex)

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ANOVA- Test of Significance
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Multiple Regression

• Independent Variables
• Gender
• Score on Religious fundamentalism Index

• Dependent Variable
• Number of Sex Partners

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Create a Dummy Variable for Gender

• Transform - Recode - Into Different Variables
• 1 - 1
• 2-3 - 0

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Regression Equation

• Number of Sex Partners 29.605 (Religindex X
  -1.625) (Male X 4.343)