The general social survey

http://gss.norc.org/Get-Documentation/questionnaires

The General Social Survey

In this project, you will need to access the questionnaire from the General Social Survey, available at http://gss.norc.org/Get-Documentation/questionnaires (Links to an external site.).

Make sure to note the Sample and Ballot form of the questionnaire.
Browse through the questionnaire.
Based on your browse, suggest a research hypothesis. Identify at least two questions from the GSS questionnaire that measure the dependent variable in your hypothesis and each one of your independent variables.
Find at least three academic research articles that pertain to your hypothesis (try very hard to find other articles that have used the same variables, and with luck, the same questions from the GSS). Make note of different variables used in these studies.
Return to the GSS questionnaire, and locate questions that pertain to additional variables identified through the literature review.
Construct a series of testable hypothesis using questions in the GSS questionnaire.
Test the hypothesis using GSS data. If you have already had statistics, you may do this on your own. The GSS website also allows you to run some simple statistics. Otherwise, you may ask your instructor for help.
Write a brief report in which you analyze the literature, and present your findings from the GSS data set.
Complete in a word document with title page and reference page.

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