You were hired as a consultant to analyze the factors that influence an individu

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You were hired as a consultant to analyze the factors that influence an individual’s propensity to watch TV. You are asked to use the General Social Survey 2002, which is a nationally representative sample of the US population. Having conducted an extensive literature review, you proposed the following theory and identified the following measures (the measurement of each variable - how it is coded in the data - is explained in each box below). You ran a multivariate regression model (the SPSS output is shown on the next page). Please, inspect the output and conduct a regression analysis.

THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLES                                      THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE

HOURS PER DAY WATCHING TV

reported by each respondent

Measured in #hours

RESPONDENT’S SELF-IDENTIFIED AS “LOW OR WORKING CLASS” (rather than middle, or upper class)

1= Yes, 0 =No.

RESPONDENT’S HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED

Measured in # years

AGE OF RESPONDENT

Measured in # years

RESPONDENT’S SEX

Measured as a dummy variable 1=Male, 0=Female

NUMBER OF HOURS WORKED LAST WEEK

Measured in # hours

NUMBER OF CHILDREN

Measured in # kids

HOURS PER DAY WATCHING TV

reported by each respondent

Measured in #hours

Explanation / Answer

In multivariate regression model, there is a relationship between the dependent variable Y and various independent variables. The output is depend upon the coefficient of the corresponding regressor depicting the nature of relationship of Y with it. For better interpretation, a significance level is consider where p-value is shows the variablew is significance or not. In this question, various variable are independnet and HOURS PER DAY WATCHING TV is a dependent variable. Therefore select a better suitable model which discribe your model complete . Thus, some variable may be omitted due to non presence in the model.

So, provided a data set which may be analysis a multiple regression model.

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