You will use data from theGSS Data Explorerwebsite, which contains archival data. Archival data is pre-existing data that has been collected by another individual or organization and is available to be analyzed, enabling you to draw new conclusions about the data. The website requires you sign up for an account. If you need help with sign-up, watchGSS Data Explorer Instructions, which walks you through the process of creating an account with the website (free of charge), finding your variables for the research report, and extracting the data to an Excel spreadsheet.

Decide Your Variables

Begin by selecting two variables of your choice from the following list of variablesit's recommended that you choose one from List A and one from list B. Note that "r" represents the participant.

List A

• Labor force status (wrkstat).
• Marital status (marital).
• R's highest degree (degree).
• Have gun in home (owngun).
• How often does r read newspaper (news).
• Www hours per week (wwwhr).

List B

• People helpful or looking out for selves (helpful).
• People fair or try to take advantage (fair).
• Can people be trusted (trust).
• Days of poor mental health past 30 days (mntlhlth).
• Told have depression (depress).
• Happy or unhappy with life today (hapunhap).
• R's rating of life overall now from 0-10 (lifenow).
• R's quality of life (quallife).
• R's mental health, mood, and ability to think (hlthmntl).
• In the past 7 days, how often r has been bothered by emotional problems (emoprobs).
• How often r was unhappy or depressed in past 4 weeks (unhappy).

If you want to report demographic information on your participants (optional):

• Respondent's sex (sex).
• Respondent's race (race).

Extract Your Data

When you decide on your variables, extract your data from theGSS Data Explorerwebsite. If you need help, watchGSS Data Explorer Instructions. Be sure to name your project for this course.

After you've extracted your data, design a research topic involving the two selected variables. For example, if you select "condition of health" and "How often r attends religious services," you may want to research how religion impacts an individual's health and wellness.

I understand the concept of building a research paper but the raw data I receive from this site it 60k plus and non-numerical so I can't run the excel data analysis software it just keep rejecting me for using non-numerical data