B4. In this exercise you will be running correlations between a variable measuring the women’s overall satisfaction with their material well-being (satovrl) and a variable measuring hunger and food insecurity (foodscor). Begin, however, by examining how scores on the variables foodscor and satovrl were distributed by running Descriptives ➜ Frequencies.

Then run the correlation analysis, using Analyze ➜

Correlate ➜ Bivariate. On the main dialog box, select all three options for Coefficients: Pearson, Kendall’s tau, and Spearman. Click OK and then answer these questions:

(a) What is the level of measurement of the food insecurity variable? What is the range of scores?

(b) What percentage of women and their children were in the group “Food Insecure with Hunger”?

(c) What is the level of measurement of the overall satisfaction variable? What is the range of scores?

(d) According to Pearson’s r, what is the correlation between food insecurity and overall satisfaction?

(e) What are the correlation coefficients for Kendall’s tau and Spearman’s rho between the two variables?

(f) Which of the three possible coefficients do you think is most appropriate?