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Data Presentation Survey Question #3. What is your total household income? Robyn Veitch Ferris State University JULY 27, 2013. PURPOSE AND TOOLS.
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Data PresentationSurvey Question #3. What is your total household income? Robyn Veitch Ferris State UniversityJULY 27, 2013
PURPOSE AND TOOLS The 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 meaningful • Can be categorized and ranked • Distance between the ranks is specific • True zero point can be identified (Nieswiadomy,2012,p.165)
HISTOGRAM Number of people out of 34 replies (Nieswiadomy,2012,p.209) Histogram Bar Graph represents a frequency distribution of a variable measured
PIE GRAPH Pie 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.
REFERENCES National 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 nursingresearch (6th ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.