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Mr. Zahid, hereafter named as Mr.

Z, has been affiliated with a local research firm for


the last seven years. He has expertise in quantitative research with hands-on
experience in SPSS and Stata software. Currently, Mr. Z is working on primary data
collected from interior Sindh migrants in Gilgit. These are high skilled individuals who
have migrated to Gilgit owing to different occupational choices. Assuming Mr. Z’s role
as research analyst, you are required to complete following tasks: (n =150)
1. Prepare a raw data file on following demographic and non-demographic
variables.
a) Gender (1= Male, 2 = Female)
b) Age (1 = 25years-35years, 2 = 36years-45years, 3 = 46years-
55years, 4 = 56years and above)
c) Education (1 = intermediate, 2 = Bachelors, 3 = Masters, 4 = Others,
please specify ____________)
d) Monthly income (1 = <Rs. 50,000, 2 = Rs. 51,000-Rs.100,000, 3 =
Rs. 101,000-Rs.150,000, 4 = Rs. 151,000 and above)
e) Employment status (1 = Temporary, 2 = Permanent)
f) City of residence (1 = in-city, 2 = out-of-city)
g) Personality Test (1-50 scores)
h) Smoking behavior (1 = Smoker, 2 = Non-smoker)
i) Skill level (1 = high skills, 2 = low skills)
j) Employee Creativity (1 = Low creativity, 2 = Somewhat creativity, 3
= Neutral, 4 = Moderate creativity, 5 = high creativity)
k) Employee Performance (1 = Poor Performance, 2 = Fine
Performance, 3 = Neutral, 4 = Good Performance, 5 = Excellent
Performance)
2. What is an appropriate test to summarize demographic characteristics of survey
subjects? Report demographic analysis.
3. What is the average age and income of survey subjects? Support your answer
with suitable analysis.
4. During survey, respondents were asked to undertake a personality test scoring
their responses to various questions on a scale of 1-50. Aggregate test scores
are provided in the dataset; is this data normally distributed?

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5. Mr. Z collected data related to gender and smoking behavior of respondents.
He is interested in seeing whether prevalence of smoking varies with gender or
not?
6. Mr. Z is interested in assessing whether employee performance is associated
with employee creativity. You are required to:
a) Write down the hypothesis statement based on the above scenario.
b) Which statistical test is applicable to the above scenario?
c) Perform and report results of your statistical analysis.
7. Mr. Z is interested in assessing whether employee creativity leads to employee
performance. You are required to:
a) Write down the hypothesis statement based on the above scenario.
b) Which statistical test is applicable to the above scenario?
c) Perform and report results of your statistical analysis

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