The following is a cross-tabulation of whether respondents rent or own their home by social class for a sample of 240 heads of household:

Question

Social Class Rent Own Total
Lower class 62 18 80
Middle class 47 63 110
Upper class 11 39 50
Total 120 120 240
Housing Status
a. Which is the independent variable and which is the dependent variable?
b. Compute row percents for the cross-tabulation.
c. What percent of the sample owns their home?
d. What percent of the sample rents?
e. What percent of the lower-class respondents owns?
f. What percent of the middle-class respondents rents? (f
g. Which social class has the greatest tendency to rent?
h. Which social class has the greatest tendency to own?
i. What can be concluded about the relationship between social class and housing
status?

What would be an ideal response?

Answer 1

a. IV = social class, DV = housing status
b.
Social Class Rent Own Total
Lower class 62 18 80
77.5% 22.5% 100.0%
Middle class 47 63 110
42.7% 57.3% 100.0%
Upper class 11 39 50
22.0% 78.0% 100.0%
Total 120 120 240
50.0% 50.0% 100.0%
Housing Status
c. 50.0%
d. 50.0%
e. 22.5%
f. 42.7%
g. Lower class
h. Upper class
i. The higher the social class, the greater the tendency to own rather than rent.