MUST USE R / R STUDIO PROGRAMS! MUST SUBMIT WORD DOCUMENT FOR ESSAY, POWERPOINT FOR THE SLIDES, WORD DOCUMENT FOR R SCRIPT AND CALCULATIONS, AND A FILE FOR THE DATA SET ALL SEPERATELY!
https://cps.ipums.org/cps/index.shtml – THIS WEBSITE HAS INSTRUCTIONS FOR DATA SELECTION AND EXTRACTION.
You work as an analyst for the City of New York, tasked with improving the health and wellbeing of New Yorkers. The City is organized into several agencies, each focusing on a different dimension of health/wellbeing. Next Monday your supervisor will meet with City leadership in order to discuss the City’s agenda for the upcoming year. Your supervisor would like to present evidence-based recommendations to leadership based on results from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Your supervisor has asked for the following deliverables to be submitted by 11:59pm on Saturday, June 10th [though, of course, in practice, the deadline would likely be mid-week COB]:
overall presentation to leadership. [10 points]
points/talking points should appear on a separate sheet of paper in the appendix to the
memo, regardless of whether or not they appear in the presentation. [10 points]
Final deliverables should be submitted electronically as two documents: a word document with
the memo, tables, charts, bibliography/reference page, and appendices, including the
bullet/talking points to accompany the power point slides; and a power point file. The word
document should be called “LASTNAME FIRSTNAME” and the power point document should
be called “LASTNAME FIRSTNAME”.
You also need to submit your R script and calculations (how you got your numbers and
figures) along with your data set.
Research Question:
The City is interested in learning if self-employed (not incorporated) workers are at higher
risk of poverty than wage workers in NYC [look at just 2020]. Use the Current Population
Survey (https://cps.ipums.org/cps/index.shtml) to examine whether poverty rates differ
depending on whether a worker is self-employed or a wage worker and include an
explanation for why differences (if any) exist. Results from the study will be used to inform
services for independent contractors and other self-employed workers. To make sure that
resources are optimally allocated, look into underlying demographic trends (e.g., younger v.
older residents).
Some guidelines for your memo:
assume your supervisor is educated but not necessarily trained in advanced statistical
techniques.
set and measures.
text.
the appendix.
The best memos will:
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