Question

At a state university, the student population is approximately one-third male and two-thirds female. Over a two-day period the gender of each student entering the student union is recorded, with the following results: males, 400; females, 500. Determine whether males and females are as likely to enter the union as would be predicted on the basis of their percentage in the student population.

Please use SPSS, copy and paste the SPSS results.

Answer 1

1)

Enter the data into one variable : gender

male and female in two different rows

then frequency 400 500

2)

Select : Analyze -> Nonparametric Tests -> Chi-Square.

in test variable list -> gender

3)

in values type 0.6666 0.3333

4.

Your output gives the expected frequencies table (Step 4.1), the Chi-Square test statistic and p-value(Step 4.3), as well as a footnote for checking the assumptions (Step 4.2)

	Oi	Ei	(Oi-Ei)^2/Ei
0.333333	400	300	33.33333333
0.666667	500	600	16.66666667
	900	x^2	50	crititcal	5.991465

p-value = 0.0000