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How The Estimated Poor Rates May Be Calculated By Some Actual Data Such As Deprived Rates And Demographical Factors

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1. Introduction
The aim of this paper is to examine that the estimated poor rates could be calculated by some actual data such as deprived rates and demographical factors and to explore the linear model for the purpose of statistically demonstrating the result of this examination. It was speculated that estimation could be induced by actual data; the poor rate may be one of the indicators for assessing social issues in the world from the perspectives of economic and other social dimensions. This study used data from Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics, which is survey-based data conducted by Scottish Government, and selected the case of Stirling, where is located in the position between Highland and Lowlands in Scotland and seems to have …show more content…

• The dependent variables are Percentage of total population who are income deprived (hereafter, Income deprived); Percentage of working age population who are employment deprived (hereafter, Employment deprived); and Urban Rural Classification 2003-2004 (hereafter, Urban/Rural).

The objective of this paper is following: Firstly, descriptive statistics are provided with detailed values of selected variables and histogram and bar chart explained particular data in details; secondary, the relationships between variables are conducted by correlation for numerical data and cross-tabulation and chi-square for ordinal data; after that, hypothesis tests (one-sample t-test, two-sample independent t-test and F-test) are performed to deepen this study; and finally, regression analysis explores a liner model, based on results in previous sections. Further, it is noted that all calculations were performed by SPSS.

2. Descriptive Statistics
In this section, descriptive statistics are shown on Table 2.1 and Figure 2.1 and 2.2. Descriptive statistics describe the raw data and helped to create research question. This study applies mean, mode, median, standard deviation and standard error (Table 2.1); bar chart and histogram which are factors helping to assume data, are provided. It should be denoted that in case of Stirling, the population size is 110 (Table 2.1).
Mean, median and mode are representative values and they are important factors in statistics. As seen in

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