The Australian Public Service Commission's State of the Service Report 2002-2003 reported job satisfaction ratings for employees. One of the survey questions asked employees to choose the five most important workplace factors (from a list of factors) that most affected how satisfied they were with their job. Respondents were then asked to indicate their level of satisfaction with their top five factors. The following data show the percentage of employees who nominated the factor in their top five, and a corresponding satisfaction rating measured using the percentage of employees who nominated the factor in the top five and who were "very satisfied" or "satisfied" with the factor in their current workplace (www.apsc.gov.au/stateoftheservice).

a. Develop a scatter diagram with Top Five (%) on the horizontal axis and Satisfaction Rating (%) on the vertical axis.
b. What does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables?
c. Develop the estimated regression equation that could be used to predict the Satisfaction Rating (%) given the Top Five (%).
d. Test for a significant relationship at the .05 level of significance.
e. Did the estimated regression equation provide a good fit? Explain.
f. What is the value of the sample correlation coefficient?

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Satisfaction Rating (%) Workplace Factor Top Five (%) Appropriate workload Chance to be creative/innovative Chance to make a useful contribution to society Duties/expectations made clear Flexible working arrangements Good working relationship Interesting work provided 38 3 Opportunities to develop my skills Opportunities to utilize my skills Regular feedback/recognition for effort 42 53 Seeing tangible results from my work 42