The welfare of Ghanaian households is determined by several factors. The collective welfare of household members is expected to influence and be influenced by the well-being of individual members due to the complex intra-household interactions. For example, if the income received by the breadwinners in a household is shared among household members including dependent children, then the physical well-being of breadwinners may affect directly or indirectly the well-being of the rest of the household members, especially the well-being of dependents such as children and elderly.

Motivated by this, a post-graduate student of UEW business school aimed at assessing the determinants of household welfare in Ghana and how they vary across locations. The has already been run. welfare is measured in monetary terms (GHS), defined as the amount of money a household has. Location is measured as urban and rural (loc2). The independent variables of interest to the student are sex, age, education, household size, employment status (emp_status), and poverty status (status).

Required

ai. age in years= mean 47.57, Standard deviation =16.281, Variance =265.079, Skweness=0.486, Kurtosis = -0.503

ii. Employment Status = Mean 3.67, Standard deviation =1.618, Variance = 2.618, Skweness =0.458, Kurtosis = -0.110

iii. Urban =mean 1.56, Standard deviation = 0.497, Variance =0.247, Skweness = -0.228, Kurtosis = -1.953

Additional information

The Independent Variable which is an age in years is recoded into Youth (15- 35 years), Adults (36-60 years), and aged (above 60years) also

The independent variable which is Employment status is recoded into Unemployed, employee, self-employed, and retired/inactive

And the Dependent Variable Location is measured as Urban and Rural.

Solve B. Using the distribution above and the information is given, write a brief report of the results obtained.

1. The student sought to test the association between five independent variables (sex, age category, education, employment status (recoded), and poverty status) and location.
   1. State and explain the choice of a statistical test that will be appropriate in testing the association between the independent variables and location?
   2. What are the assumptions underlying this test?.
2. From the literature review, the student found that the average welfare of Ghanaians is GHS3,800. The student wishes to test if the average welfare of the sample is different from the average welfare stated in the literature.
   1. State and explain the choice of a statistical test that will be appropriate for performing this analysis?
   2. What are the assumptions underlying this test?

(d) The student further wishes to assess if the welfare of Ghanaians varies by location.

1. State and explain the choice of a statistical test that will be appropriate for performing this analysis?
2. What are the assumptions underlying this test?

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