A graduate student interested in political sociology comes across research that theorizes that the presence of certain types of natural resources in a region may lead to different forms of political violence. To test this hypothesis, she studies 119 different regions in which intergroup conflict occurs and creates a cross-tab that indexes three major natural resources—oil, diamonds, and coltan (a precious mineral used in most major electronic devices)— with three possible conflict types: ethnic conflict, intrastate conflict, and interstate conflict. Based on the following cross-tabulation, calculate a contingency coefficient and a Cramér’s V, and determine whether they are statistically significant.

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Conflict Type Ethnic Conflict Intrastate War Interstate War Resource Available Oil Diamonds Coltan 9 3 31 16 30 6 7 13 4