Exercise 11.1: Identifying Different Types of Variables that Describe Collectivities

Two of the data sets that accompany this book, COUNTRIES and STATES, contain data from published sources that describe geographically defined units of analysis. Using SPSS to examine each of these data sets, provide three examples from each data set (variable names) of each of the following types of data: Countries, Census data, Governmental or Quasi-governmental statistics, Event Data, Judgmental Data, U.S. States, Census data, Governmental or Quasi-governmental statistics, Event Data, Judgmental Data: