There are 10 graded homework exercises to be completed for this course, one exercise for each week of class. Each Thursday an exercise will be assigned in class, as well as posted here. To earn the points for each exercise students, working either individually or in pairs, must complete the exercise and submit their answers via Canvas no later than 1pm on following Monday. Thus exercise 1 will be assigned on the Thursday of week 1 and submitted on the Monday of week 2 and so on. Exercise 10 will be due in the exam slot, on Wednesday March 20 between 4 and 7pm. Since each week’s exercise will receive detailed review and discussion in class each Tuesday, late assignments will not be accepted except in the most extraordinary of circumstances. 

Each exercise will require students to access and analyze recent survey data files using SPSS. Thus students should have SPSS installed on their own computers. Students may also be able to use SPSS in one of UCSC’s Mac labs, e.g., at Social Sciences 1, Rm 135, Crown 201, Porter Arts D-240 or Rachel Carson 101. Essential information on use of SPSS is available in Chapter 1 of Almquist et al.

The exercises listed here for the most part compare 2023 California and Texas public opinion data on attitudes regarding immigration though attitudes toward other issues will also be analyzed.

HW1 2024 Answers
HW2-24 Answers
HW3-24 Answers
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ReworkedHW4
HW5-24 Answers
HW6-24 Answers
HW6a
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Exercise Link	Exercise Title	Cal Syntax	Tex Syntax	Due	percent
Exercise 1	Frequencies & Crosstabs	HW1-24Cal	HW1-24Tex	Jan 15	5
Exercise 2	Summary Measures	HW2-24Cal	HW2-24Tex	Jan 22	10
Exercise 3	Reliability	HW3-24Cal	HW3-24 Tex	Jan 29	10
Exercise 4	Inference/Chi-square	HW4-24Calc	HW4-24Texc	Feb 5	10
Exercise 5	Anova	HW5-24Calc	HW5-24Texc	Feb 19	10
Exercise 6	Correlation/Regression	HW6-24Calc	HW6-24Texc	now Mar 4	10
Exercise 7	Multiple Regression	HW7-24Cal	HW7-24Texc	now Mar 11	15
Exercise 8	Path or Interaction Model	none	HW8-24 Tex	now Mar 19	10
Exercise 9	Cancelled
Exercise 10	Cancelled

Link to Homework Exercises 2022-3 focussed on Covid policy preferences.