Data Management and Visualization: Second Assignment - Running Your First Program

I thought this was going to be much harder than it actually was! Just looking at code, that we had to eventually type, just does not seem to make any sort of sense to my brain. However, once watching the videos and taking it one step at a time, it was much easier to produce.

My quest for this overall assignment is to assess the desire to go to college, and how or if that is connected to parents view of college and if they attended college. I used the Adolescent Health data provided as part of the course.

Below are my responses to three questions asked in our assignment.

1.) MY PROGRAM

1 - LIBNAME mydata "/courses/d1406ae5ba27fe300 " access=readonly;

2 - DATA new;set mydata.addhealth_pds;

3 - label h1ee1="How Much Do You Want To Go To College?"

h1ee2="How Likely Is It That You Will Go To College?"

h1nm4="How Far Did Bio Mom Go?"

h1nf4="How Far Did Bio Dad Go?"

h1rm1="How Far Did Mom Go?"

h1rf1="How Far Did Dad Go?";

4 - proc sort; by AID;

5 - proc freq; tables h1ee1 h1ee2 H1nm4 h1nf4 h1rm1 h1rf1;

6 - run;

2) MY OUTPUT VARIABlES AS FREQUENCY TABLES

The FREQ Procedure

How Much Do You Want To Go To College?
H1EE1	Frequency	Percent	Cumulative Frequency	Cumulative Percent
1	233	3.58	233	3.58
2	177	2.72	410	6.30
3	664	10.21	1074	16.51
4	842	12.95	1916	29.46
5	4535	69.73	6451	99.19
6	14	0.22	6465	99.40
8	39	0.60	6504	100.00

How Likely Is It That You Will Go To College?
H1EE2	Frequency	Percent	Cumulative Frequency	Cumulative Percent
1	351	5.40	351	5.40
2	294	4.52	645	9.92
3	899	13.82	1544	23.74
4	1343	20.65	2887	44.39
5	3560	54.74	6447	99.12
6	14	0.22	6461	99.34
8	43	0.66	6504	100.00

How Far Did Bio Mom Go?
H1NM4	Frequency	Percent	Cumulative Frequency	Cumulative Percent
1	43	0.66	43	0.66
2	114	1.75	157	2.41
3	6	0.09	163	2.51
4	232	3.57	395	6.07
5	38	0.58	433	6.66
6	41	0.63	474	7.29
7	76	1.17	550	8.46
8	87	1.34	637	9.79
9	27	0.42	664	10.21
11	33	0.51	697	10.72
12	30	0.46	727	11.18
96	3	0.05	730	11.22
97	5764	88.62	6494	99.85
98	10	0.15	6504	100.00

How Far Did Bio Dad Go?
H1NF4	Frequency	Percent	Cumulative Frequency	Cumulative Percent
1	108	1.66	108	1.66
2	249	3.83	357	5.49
3	13	0.20	370	5.69
4	757	11.64	1127	17.33
5	57	0.88	1184	18.20
6	82	1.26	1266	19.46
7	174	2.68	1440	22.14
8	324	4.98	1764	27.12
9	116	1.78	1880	28.91
11	189	2.91	2069	31.81
12	96	1.48	2165	33.29
96	2	0.03	2167	33.32
97	4281	65.82	6448	99.14
98	56	0.86	6504	100.00

How Far Did Mom Go?
H1RM1	Frequency	Percent	Cumulative Frequency	Cumulative Percent
1	263	4.04	263	4.04
2	568	8.73	831	12.78
3	41	0.63	872	13.41
4	1811	27.84	2683	41.25
5	217	3.34	2900	44.59
6	426	6.55	3326	51.14
7	770	11.84	4096	62.98
8	1241	19.08	5337	82.06
9	512	7.87	5849	89.93
10	7	0.11	5856	90.04
11	179	2.75	6035	92.79
12	42	0.65	6077	93.43
96	4	0.06	6081	93.50
97	370	5.69	6451	99.19
98	53	0.81	6504	100.00

How Far Did Dad Go?
H1RF1	Frequency	Percent	Cumulative Frequency	Cumulative Percent
1	219	3.37	219	3.37
2	379	5.83	598	9.19
3	27	0.42	625	9.61
4	1302	20.02	1927	29.63
5	130	2.00	2057	31.63
6	254	3.91	2311	35.53
7	512	7.87	2823	43.40
8	922	14.18	3745	57.58
9	535	8.23	4280	65.81
10	9	0.14	4289	65.94
11	155	2.38	4444	68.33
12	50	0.77	4494	69.10
96	7	0.11	4501	69.20
97	1952	30.01	6453	99.22
98	50	0.77	6503	99.98
99	1	0.02	6504	100.00

3) A FEW SENTENCES DESCRIBING MY FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS

Most of the data results are easy to understand, as there is so much repetition in the responses. I was working with questions who's answer results were placed on scales (1 to 5), or for grades completed making a review of the data reasonably simple. 

In the first two tables 1 is low, and 5 is high, 6 is refused to answer, and 8 is don't know. 

In the rest of the charts each number represents a grade (1st grade through 12th grade); however there are a couple responses that vary from this logical sequence including: 96 = refused, 97 = legitimate skip, 98 = don't know, 99 = not applicable.