Data Presentation Survey Question #3. What is your total household income? Robyn Veitch Ferris State University

Data Presentation Survey Question #3. What is your total household income?

Robyn Veitch Ferris State UniversityJULY 27, 2013

PURPOSE AND TOOLSThe purpose of the assignment is to present ratio data using a histogram bar graph and a pie chart to show the results of the total household income of 34 participants.

RATIO LEVEL OF MEASUREMENT:Can be calculated and meaningfulCan be categorized and rankedDistance between the ranks is specificTrue zero point can be identified(Nieswiadomy,2012,p.165)

HISTOGRAM Histogram Bar Graph represents a frequency distribution of a variable measuredNumber of people out of 34 replies(Nieswiadomy,2012,p.209)

PIE GRAPHPie Graph shows proportions/percentages through comparison, for a total of 100%. It displays a whole and smaller part as they relate to each other (NCI,2011). The result is based on answers from 34 participants.

REFERENCESNational Cancer Institute (NCI) (2011) Making data talk: A workbook (NIH Publication No. 11-7724). Retrieved from http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/cancerlibrary/MDT-Workbook.pdf

Nieswiadomy, R.M. (2012) Foundations of nursing research (6th ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.