Data Analysis Paper

[WLO: 5] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3]

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review theKIDS COUNT Data CenterLinks to an external site.This website is a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation to track the well-being of children in the United States. Data can be accessed by location or by topics such as demographics, economic well-being, education, family and community, health and safety, and risky behaviors.

For this assignment, you will chart data using Microsoft Excel to produce charts that will be included in your Data Analysis paper.

To complete the Data Analysis Paper,

• Go to theKIDS COUNT Data CenterLinks to an external site.
• The following data topics:
  • Education
  • High School students not graduating on time in California and New York between 2014-2018.
• Research your topic by extracting three scholarly, peer-reviewed articles on your chosen topic from the University of Arizona Global Campus Library.
• Choose your two state locations.
• Choose your national indicators.
• Choose a minimum of four years of data.
• Graph the data from the two different states the three following ways:
  • Line
  • Pie
  • Bar
• Analyze the findings in your data for each state relative to the peer-reviewed articles that you read on your chosen topic.

• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
• Address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
• Include a description of the data found, and the data source. (Summarize the data found, and how it was collected and eventually made available to the data center.) Include your three graphs and analyze which graph is most appropriate for the data and state why.
• Describe any trends found in the data.
• Include a minimum of three reasons why the data is similar or different from the two locations or over time.
• Summarize three articles from scholarly sources (excluding your textbook) that discuss the data you selected.