In general, as respondents’ educational attainment increases, the percentage of those who say they “pay rent” for their current home:
A team of researchers is interested to know whether educational attainment affects the likelihood of owning or renting a home. They create a cross-tab with DWELOWN (Do you/Does your family) own your (home/apartment), pay rent, or what?”) and DEGREE (respondents’ highest educational degree), using a filter of “YEAR (2010-2014).” Figure 8.1 shows the resulting analysis.
Figure 8.1
a. decreases
b. increases
c. stays about the same
a. decreases
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a. "I can earn my own income, so I don't need to marry." b. "I was married once, and it didn't work out, so I'd rather be a single parent than try again." c. "Marriage is important and valuable, but for me, marriage would probably make life worse." d. "I need to prioritize caring for my child over building a relationship with the child's father."
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a. Ideal b. Real c. Material d. Universal
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a. compatibility; sexual attraction b. individualism; identity loss c. sexual attraction; love d. psychological needs; material needs
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A. discrimination by members of a more powerful ethnic subpopulation against those of a less powerful subpopulation B. discrimination by a larger group against a smaller group C. discrimination by one race against another D. none of the above