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Demographics and Non-Traditional Civic Participation: A Data-Driven Learning Guide
Interpretation & Summary
Think about the answers to the application questions before clicking through to the interpretation guide for help in answering them.
Which age group has the most respondents?
Which income group has the most respondents? Which income group has the least number of respondents?
Which age groups are most likely to have volunteered for the 1988 campaign?
What percentage of men in this dataset volunteered to help a campaign effort in 1988? What percentage of women volunteered?
Are people with higher family incomes more likely to volunteer to campaign? What percentage of those respondents making less than $25,000 volunteered for the campaign?
Which age groups were more likely to give money to a campaign? What does the pattern here tell you about the relationship between these two variables?
Are men or women more likely to contribute money to a campaign? Does this pattern look similar to the pattern in the crosstab between gender and volunteerism?
Do you observe a pattern that is consistent with the hypothesis that respondents with higher family income will be more likely to contribute money to a campaign? How does this relationship compare to the one between income and propensity to volunteer? Taking the past three crosstabs into consideration, what can you say about demographics and one's propensity to contribute money to a campaign?
Which age group is most likely to take part in a protest? How does this differ from the other age crosstabs? If there is a difference among these three crosstabs, why might this difference exist?
Are men or women more likely to take part in a protest? Does the relationship between protest and gender seem to be different than the relationship between gender and either volunteering for or contributing to campaigns? If so, what is one reason for the difference?
Which income group is most likely to take part in a protest? Which income group is least likely? Is the pattern here similar to the patterns shown in the other income crosstabs?
CITATION: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Demographics and Non-Traditional Civic Participation: A Data-Driven Learning Guide. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-04-16. Doi:10.3886/demcivpart
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