Title: Tutorial activity
Course: UGQuants (SSPS) > Section: Introduction to Quantitative Analysis

Tutorial activity

1. The file QDA EU questionnaire contains questions selected from a recent European Union Eurobarometer survey. Open the file and for each question decide:

- How you would convert each of the questions into one or more variables and value codes in order to prepare a dataset based on the results of the questionnaire.
- What level of measurement the variables you would create would take.

2. Open the file European Social Survey practice dataset and answer the following questions:

- What is the level of measurement of each variable in the dataset?
- How many values does the variable 'rlgdgr' take?
- Which variables have missing values?
- Why does the variable agea have no value codes?

3. Open the file World Development Indicators dataset. Examine the dataset with the help of statistical software by looking at the description of the variables and try to answer the following questions.

- What are the cases in the dataset? How many are there?
- How many variables does it hold?
- How many of these variables are on the nominal measurement level?