First Coding Assignment

03082017.txt

## This is due on 3/17 in the Dropbox on D2L
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Refer to the following Rmarkdown file for a template: https://gist.github.com/ryanburge/1bce7a48995cbf82995668c5c3e18d2c

1. What is the code that you would use to give me a frequency table for the following question: 

“Do you favor or oppose cuts in state spending on state universities?”

What is the code that you would use to make a histogram of that question? 

How would you describe the results of this question? 

2. Using the same variable that was the focus of Question 1, do the following: 

Create a new variable called highered and then recode that variable to where “Other/Don’t Know” is zero
What’s the code for doing those two things? 

Now, I want you to create a dataset of just African-Americans. 
What’s the code you used for doing that? 

Finally, make a histogram of that African-American dataset using the “highered” variable you created earlier. What’s the code for that? 
What does this histogram tell you? 

3. I want you to make a series of crosstabs using the “party_aff” variable and the following questions on the Simon poll: 

cuts_he, cuts_cops, cuts_parks, cuts_poor, cuts_dis, pen_cuts

What is the code that you used? 

What results do you find?