2. The elderly are characterized as being more politically engaged than younger

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2. The elderly are characterized as being more politically engaged than younger individuals. We will test this relationship by examining the relationship between RAGE (age categories) and CNTCGOV (how often have you contacted a politician or civil servant) based on GSS 2014 data. entctgov CONTACTED POLITICIAN OR CIVIL SERVANT TO EXPRESS VIEW RAge recoded Age Crosstabulation Total I Have done it in the past yr Count % within RAge recoded Age Count %within,RAge 19.7%| 13.3% 12.1% 15 25.9% OR 10.2% 10.4% 2 Have done it in the more distant TO EXPRESS 61% 23.9%| 17.3% recoded Age %within RAge Count t but might doit 26.8%| 37.3% 42.9% 20 40.8% 44.2% 26 33.8% 36.2% 15 25.9% 4 Have not done 21 % within RAge recoded Age 29.6%| 32.2% never do it % within RAge recoded Age 100.0% 1 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% a. Which is the independent variable? b. How would you describe the relationship between the two variables? c. What might be some other social factors related to contacting politicians to express view? Identify two reasons.

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(i) the independent varaible : Here dependent variable is the age group which a random person belongs

(ii) Here the relationship between both variables is an association or can say an interaction which defines the relation between two relationship that both events "Age of a random perso" and "Political exposure of that person" are how much asscoiated.

(iii) Two other social factors.

(a) Work profile of any person. There are some jobs which are required to have an association with politicianse.

(b) Gender : Male gender is more tend to have relationship with politicians than females. same for higher earning class and lower earning class.

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