The document discusses the analysis of a continuous variable, 'problems with public health clinics,' indicating a mean of 7.43 and high variability among scores. It also analyzes a categorical variable, 'country’s present economic condition compared to 12 months ago,' which shows low variability with tied modes of 'same' and 'better.' References are provided to scholarly works for the statistical measures discussed.

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Continuous Variable
The continuous variable I selected is “Problems w/Public Health
Clinics”. The means for this data is 7.43, the median is 7.4335
and the mode is 0. For the variable, the mean is the best
measure it incorporates every value of this variable making it
more representative of the variable (Frankfort-Nachmias, Leon-
Guerrero, & Davis, 2020). The standard deviation is 5.11961,
this number represents the difference of the data points from the
mean. This number means that the scores regarding problems
with health clinics differed from the mean by 5.11961. The
variance is 26.210 describes the degree to which the data points
are spread. I would describe this variable as having a lot of
variability and extreme. Those that had no problems with
public clinics more than double the amount of those that had a
median amount of problems and triple those that had lots of
problems.
Categorical Variable
Categorical variables are nominal or ordinal and cannot be
described with mean or median. The best central tendency for
these variables are mode, which is the score that shows up most
frequently (Frankfort-Nachmias, Leon-Guerrero, & Davis,
2020). The categorical variable I selected is “country’s present
economic condition compared to 12 months ago”, is mode is a
tie for same and better all with the frequency of 2872 and a
percent of 27.8%. This variable has low variability. Most of
the participants believe there has been a small change or no

2. change in economic conditions over the past 12 months.
References
Frankfort-Nachmias, C., Leon-Guerrero, A., & Davis, G.
(2020). Social statistics for a diverse society (9th ed.).
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Wagner, III, W. E. (2020).
Using IBM® SPSS® statistics for research methods and social
science statistics
(7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
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