Some people believe that social class influences the number of children that couples decide to have. Use SPSS to investigate this question with the GSS data file. (The variable CHILDS measures the respondents number of children.) To get the necessary information, have SPSS split the file by CLASS and then run Frequencies for CHILDS.
a. What is the best measure of central tendency to represent the number of children in a household? Why?
b. Which social class has more children per respondent?
c. Rerun your analysis, this time with the variable CHLDIDEL (ideal number of children). Is there a difference among the social class categories? Explain.