ATA
BA/EC 311 – QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE
ATTITUDES TOWARD ABORTION
You have been hired as a political consultant to determine what effect, if any, religious preference has on voters’ attitudes toward abortion. The variables in your study are:
ATA – a scale to
measure an individual’s attitude toward abortion.
RP - Religious Preference (either Protestant, Catholic, Jewish or other).
Load the Excel dataset “ATA Recoded” provided below into SPSS. Note that RP has been dummy coded.
Conduct a regression analysis that will enable you to answer your research question.
Write a report that summarizes your findings. What is your regression equation? Be sure to
discuss which religious preferences are having an effect on one’s attitude toward
abortion and the magnitude of that effect. Save your report as a word doc and post on Moodle.