Effects of divorce on children
My topic focuses on the effects of family divorce on children, the data provides variables Divorce cases compared with obedience of children. Divorce cases is a categorical variable having nominal scale from strongly agree, strongly disagree or agree, disagree scales.
StatisticsDIVORCE AS BEST SOLUTION TO MARITAL PROBLEMS / TO OBEY
N / Valid / 1265 / 3221
Missing / 3555 / 1599
Mean / 2.82 / 3.39
Median / 2.00 / 4.00
Mode / 2 / 4
Std. Deviation / 1.118 / 1.256
Variance / 1.250 / 1.577
Sum / 3568 / 10904
Frequency distribution table for divorce
DIVORCE AS BEST SOLUTION TO MARITAL PROBLEMSFrequency / Percent / Valid Percent / Cumulative Percent
Valid / STRONGLY AGREE / 91 / 1.9 / 7.2 / 7.2
AGREE / 561 / 11.6 / 44.3 / 51.5
NEITHER AGREE NOR DISAGREE / 187 / 3.9 / 14.8 / 66.3
DISAGREE / 336 / 7.0 / 26.6 / 92.9
STRONGLY DISAGREE / 90 / 1.9 / 7.1 / 100.0
Total / 1265 / 26.2 / 100.0
Missing / IAP / 3518 / 73.0
CAN'T CHOOSE / 29 / .6
NA / 8 / .2
Total / 3555 / 73.8
Total / 4820 / 100.0
Frequency distribution table for obey variable.
TO OBEYFrequency / Percent / Valid Percent / Cumulative Percent
Valid / MOST IMPORTANT / 427 / 8.9 / 13.3 / 13.3
2ND IMPORTANT / 343 / 7.1 / 10.6 / 23.9
3RD IMPORTANT / 546 / 11.3 / 17.0 / 40.9
4TH IMPORTANT / 1372 / 28.5 / 42.6 / 83.5
LEAST IMPORTANT / 533 / 11.1 / 16.5 / 100.0
Total / 3221 / 66.8 / 100.0
Missing / IAP / 1562 / 32.4
NA / 37 / .8
Total / 1599 / 33.2
Total / 4820 / 100.0
On the other hand to obey variable is measured by likert scale of most important to 2nd important to 3rd important, 4th important and least important. The variable thus is a nominal variable.