Excluding the nonvalid response categories the variable DEMTODAY has _____ valid response categories.

A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.1, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents’ sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question “On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?”



a. 9

b. 10

c. 11

d. 12


c. 11

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