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Quiz #9 Survey research report
Quiz #9
Survey research report
Clinton Ferguson
Sowk 300-01 SP
Tuskegee University
March 10th
, 2010
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Abstract: In alcoholics anonymous it is taught that chemical dependency is a disease. I would
like to explore the feelings that respondents have towards this claim. This topic is interestingto me because when I consider diseases I never take into account the possibility of a self inflicted
disease so in further exploring this topic of chemical dependency. Looking at all this data I can
concluded that women are more likely than men to agree with the statement chemical
dependency is in fact a disease this is in line with the earlier stated hypothesis.
Introduction: The topic I will be investigating is chemical dependency and the question
specifically that I will seek to answer is do you think that chemical dependency is a disease.
Chemical dependency is a widespread problem and is viewed differently across the globe. I am
interested in the respondents feedback towards chemical dependency and if they believe it is a
disease. In alcoholics anonymous it is taught that chemical dependency is a disease. I would like
to explore the feelings that respondents have towards this claim. This topic is interesting to me
because when I consider diseases I never take into account the possibility of a self inflicted
disease so I chose to further explore this topic of chemical dependency. In addition to our
research question we will also be measuring different attributes as well. Attributes such as age,
gender, income, education, country, team, map and overview will be measured and analyzed. I
will be comparing all this data and looking for evidence that will support or reject my
hypothesis, as well as any significant statistics that were unexpected. The variables age,
gender, and education will be my background variables. Vote, overview, map, income, team and
country will be our questionnaire items. These variables are very important to my research as it
will help to determine the outcomes. By assessing these attributes I expect to find out that people
from America will view chemical dependency as a disease. I also believe that we will find
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evidence suggesting that lower income and lower educational attainment level respondents will
view chemical dependency as a disease as well. Taking into account age I think we will see that
younger respondents will hold a view that chemical dependency is a disease as well. With
gender involved I expect to see evidence that will prove that women will be more inclined to
hold the belief that chemical dependency is indeed a disease. Taking a deeper look into the
rationale behind my expectations are as follows. The reason I believe that those respondents
from America will view chemical dependency as a disease more than those respondents from
outside the country is that alcoholics anonymous a very popular group for those with chemical
dependency issues and they tell their members that chemical dependency is a disease. Having
never been to alcoholics anonymous I was familiar with this term which Im sure is the case for
other Americans as well. For lower income and lower educational attainment respondents I
believe that they will also view chemical dependency as a disease. My reasoning behind this is
that possibly lower income and lower educational attaining respondents are more likely to get
involved in the criminal justice system than higher income higher educational attaining
respondents. This is significant because in criminal justice systems across America alcoholics
anonymous is considered a self help tool that is often required as part of probation, parole,
rehabilitation or even for first time offenders and youthful offenders. Correlated with this I
mentioned the variable gender as playing a role in women believing that chemical dependency is
a disease. My rationale behind this expectation is the fact that women are more likely to seek
medical attention sooner than men and with this they will be enlightened to the alcoholics
anonymous teachings as well as the medical professionals who believe the same. Another reason
I hold this expectation is that in the medical world a disease is considered an abnormal condition
that impairs normal bodily function. With that being said there is a very strong case that women
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can make that pregnancy also falls under the same category and this I believe gives women a
tighter bond to the fact as well as a reason to wonder.
List of graphs:
Table 1
Gender of Respondents
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Sex Frequency Percent
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Male 30 76
Female 14 24
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Table 2
Age of Respondents
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Gender 18-25 26-55 56-65
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Male 9 13 4
Female 3 10 1
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Total 12 23 5
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Table 3
Education
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High School Bachelors Doctorate
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17% 23% 4%
Table 4 Table 5
Education
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High School Bachelors Doctorate High School Bachelors Doctorate
Women 15% 75% 10% Men 70% 30% 0%
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Table 1: In this table we see that 76% of our respondents are male and 24% female with a total
of 30 male Respondents and 14 female respondents. This is important and affects all of our
outcomes because we have more than double males giving us data.
Table 2: Here we further investigate our background variables looking at the age of our
respondents along with their gender. Here I collapsed age categories 65 into AGECAT 56-65+. What
we notice here is that majority of respondents are in AGECAT 26-55 with 18-25 coming in
second with 12 respondents and last the 56-65+ AGECAT with the least representatives at 5.
Table 3: we collapsed grade school & high school into high school, associates & bachelors into
bachelors, masters & doctorate into doctorate. What we see here is 23% of respondents fall into
the bachelors category while the doctorate category is only at 4% and the high school category
is 17%. What is significant in this data is that most of our respondents are in the high
school/bachelor category.
Chart 1: Here we illustrate the frequency with the age category by gender. This gives us a look
in another light at very important data findings. What is apparent in this chart is that men in the
26-55 age categories have the highest representation of respondents.
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Chart 2: gives us a new perspective on some similar data viewing the data we see that the data
from chart 1 with males in age category 26-55 as the highest representatives changes in a big
way. When were talking about percentage what we see here is that women mate 75% percentage
wise this is a big difference.
Summary: Looking at all this data I can conclude that women are more likely than men to agree
with the statement chemical dependency is in fact a disease this is in line with the earlier stated
hypothesis. This topic is interesting to me because when I consider diseases I never take into
account the possibility of a self inflicted disease so in further exploring this topic of chemical
dependency. In addition to our research question we measured different attributes that help in
bringing our research question to light. Attributes such as age, gender, income, education,
country, team, and map are measured and analyzed. It is determined through data analysis that
chemical dependency is viewed as a disease in America more than outside of America.
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