Practice exam style questions

Note. These are practice questions and have not been designed to be
any easier or harder than the exam content

PART 1:

Please use the following information to answer questions 1

You have been hired as a business analyst by a company to try to figure out why the
employees are so unhappy. You have given the company a survey to complete
regarding their job satisfaction. A sample of 60 surveys is completed by upper-level
managers, mid-level managers, supervisors, and employees. The CEO asks you to
identify if the employees have less job satisfaction.

Use the SPSS output below to write up the results, make sure you include:
 The null and alternative hypothesis

 Name the test, report which hypothesis is rejected and the test statistic
o See workshop slides for example

 Name the post hoc test and report which means are significantly different from
each other
 Report the Means and SDs of each group

 Give a recommendation based on the results

Descriptives
Job satisfaction

N Mean Std. Deviation Std. Error

upper Level Manager 10 65.7000 8.73117 2.76104
Mid-Level Manager 14 52.7857 6.75025 1.80408
Supervisor 26 63.1923 6.44372 1.26372
Employee 10 22.7000 7.64562 2.41776
Total 60 54.4333 16.57788 2.14019

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 ANOVA
Job satisfaction
Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig.
Between Groups 13372.138 3 4457.379 87.812 .000
Within Groups 2842.596 56 50.761
Total 16214.733 59

Post Hoc Tests

Multiple Comparisons
Dependent Variable: Job satisfaction
Bonferroni
Mean 95% Confidence Interval
Difference (I-
(I) Position (J) Position J) Std. Error Sig. Lower Bound Upper Bound
*
upper Level Mid-Level Manager 12.91429 2.94989 .000 4.8457 20.9829
Manager Supervisor 2.50769 2.65111 1.000 -4.7437 9.7591
Employee 43.00000* 3.18624 .000 34.2849 51.7151
*
Mid-Level Manager upper Level -12.91429 2.94989 .000 -20.9829 -4.8457
Manager
Supervisor -10.40659* 2.36180 .000 -16.8666 -3.9466
Employee 30.08571* 2.94989 .000 22.0171 38.1543
Supervisor upper Level -2.50769 2.65111 1.000 -9.7591 4.7437
Manager
Mid-Level Manager 10.40659* 2.36180 .000 3.9466 16.8666
*
Employee 40.49231 2.65111 .000 33.2409 47.7437
Employee upper Level -43.00000* 3.18624 .000 -51.7151 -34.2849
Manager
Mid-Level Manager -30.08571* 2.94989 .000 -38.1543 -22.0171
*
Supervisor -40.49231 2.65111 .000 -47.7437 -33.2409
*. The mean difference is significant at the 0.05 level.

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Please use the following information to answer question 2-3.
You have been hired as a business analyst by a company to try to figure out why the

employees are so unhappy. The output below shows the relationship between

stress and job satisfaction, use this output to answer the following questions

Correlations
Stress Job satisfaction
Stress Pearson Correlation 1 -.424**
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 213 213
**
Job satisfaction Pearson Correlation -.424 1
Sig. (2-tailed) .000
N 213 213
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

2. The correlation output above shows what type of relationship:

a. A positive relationship

b. A curvilinear relationship

c. No relationship

d. A negative relationship

3. Based on the output you would conclude the following:

a. As stress increases, job satisfaction increases

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 b. As stress increases, job satisfaction increases to a point and then it

drops off

c. As job satisfaction increases there is no impact on stress

d. As stress increases, job satisfaction decreases

Please use the following information to answer question 4.

Paired sample t-test

A manager has measured job stress in 1,057 workers across two years.
They want to see if job stress from 2019 is the same or has changed compared to
stress in 2020.

Use the SPSS output below to write up the results, make sure you include:
 The null and alternative hypothesis

 Name the test, report which hypothesis is rejected and the test statistic
o See workshop slides for example

 Report the Means and SDs of each group

 Give a recommendation based on the results

Paired Samples Statistics

Mean N Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean
Pair 1 Job Stress 2019 3.1893 1057 .40301 .01240
Job Stress 2020 2.6641 1057 1.21222 .03729

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 Paired Samples Test
Paired Differences
95% Confidence
Interval of the
Std. Std. Error Difference Sig. (2-
Mean Deviation Mean Lower Upper t df tailed)
Pair Job Stress 2019 – .52516 1.34727 .04144 .44385 .60647 12.673 1056 .000
1 Job Stress 2020

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Please use the following information to answer question 5.

Independent t-test
A researcher wants to know if people who work full-time have different life
satisfaction compared to people who work part-time. A random sample of workers
from different industries was collected, with 720 Full-time and 332 Part-time.

Use the SPSS output below to write up the results, make sure you include:
 The null and alternative hypothesis

 Name the test, report which hypothesis is rejected

o See workshop slides for example

 Report Levene’s test

 Report whether the test is significant and the test statistic

 Report the Means and SDs of each group

 Give a recommendation based on the results

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 Group Statistics
DV: Current labour force Std. Error
status - detail N Mean Std. Deviation Mean
Life satisfaction Employed FT 720 7.82 1.258 .047
Employed PT 332 8.14 1.245 .068

Independent Samples Test

Levene's Test
for Equality of
Variances t-test for Equality of Means
95%
Confidence
Sig. Interval of the
(2- Mean Std. Error Difference
F Sig. t df tailed) Difference Difference Lower Upper
Life Equal .190 .663 - 1050 .000 -.313 .083 -.476 -.150
satisfaction variances 3.761
assumed
Equal - 649.927 .000 -.313 .083 -.476 -.150
variances 3.776
not assumed

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Please use the following information to answer question 6.

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A researcher is interested in seeing whether parents who worry about their children
at work effects their overall life satisfaction. They collect a random sample of 291
parents to complete a survey.

Use the SPSS output below to write up the results, make sure you include:
 The null and alternative hypothesis

 Name the test, report which hypothesis is rejected and the test statistic
o See workshop slides for example

 What proportion of variance is accounted for by the model?

 What does beta 1 tell us
 Recommendations based on the results

Descriptive Statistics
Mean Std. Deviation N
Life Satisfaction 7.5773 1.04593 291
Worry about children while at 5.7526 1.07027 291
work

Model Summary
Std. Error of Change Statistics
Mode R Adjusted R the R Square F Sig. F
l R Square Square Estimate Change Change df1 df2 Change
a
1 .179 .032 .029 1.03075 .032 9.603 1 289 .002
a. Predictors: (Constant), Worry about children while at work

ANOVAa
Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig.
1 Regression 10.203 1 10.203 9.603 .002b
Residual 307.050 289 1.062
Total 317.253 290
a. Dependent Variable: K_Life Satisfaction
b. Predictors: (Constant), Worry about children while at work

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 Coefficientsa
Standardized
Unstandardized Coefficients Coefficients
Model B Std. Error Beta t Sig.
1 (Constant) 6.569 .331 19.853 .000
Worry about children while at -.175 .057 .179 3.099 .002
work
a. Dependent Variable: K_Life Satisfaction

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