Purpose of Study

As a policy researcher, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has asked you to explore a new dataset called the General Social Survey.  The CBO would like you to conduct a preliminary statistical analysis to describe the sample characteristics in the dataset and write a report for the CBO. They believe this dataset is representative of the American people and can be used to help leaders make important social and social policy decisions.  

Research Questions and Hypothesis

  1. What are the demographic characteristics in the GSS dataset?
  2. There is no hypothesis for this assignment.

Measures (Variables)

AGE, MARITAL, DEGREE, BORN, RACE1