The Gallup Organization (www.gallup.com) or Pew Research Center (www.pewresearch

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The Gallup Organization (www.gallup.com) or Pew Research Center (www.pewresearch.org) provides data on all aspects of lifestyles of people around the world. There are many other organizations who try to determine what the public is thinking about a certain topic by conducting scientific polls.

What is the title and source of the report you found?

What was the population of interest?  

How was the sample selected? What was the sampling method used?

What was the sample size?

How were the subjects contacted? By phone, by mail, by web poll, etc…

When was the survey conducted?

Give a statistics from the report.

Describe the parameter of interest in your report. This may or may not be given numerically in the report, but you should be able to describe it. (Remember parameter describes the population)

Describe the variable(s) studied in the survey.

Explanation / Answer

A) Intermarriage in the U.S. 50 Years After Loving v. Virginia
One-in-six newlyweds are married to someone of a different race or ethnicity

B)The population of interest is U.S. newlyweds that have a spouse of a different race or ethnicity

C)This is a stratified sample selected using qualitive variables.
D) The sample size used was in 2015 670,000 couples and in 1980 270,000 couples. The difference in sample size is most likely due to the increase in interracial couples

E) The subjects for this survey were contacted using telephone survey and census results

F). The survey was conducted between 1980 through 2015(Livingston & Brown, 2017)

G)According to the pew research report “Asian and Hispanic newlyweds are by far the most likely to intermarry in the U.S. About three-in-ten Asian newlyweds3 (29%) did so in 2015, and the share was 27% among recently married Hispanics. For these groups, intermarriage is even more prevalent among the U.S. born: 39% of U.S.-born Hispanic newlyweds and almost half (46%) of U.S.-born Asian newlyweds have a spouse of a different race or ethnicity (Livingston & Brown, 2017)”.

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