Popular Names by Birth Year
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To complete this exercise, you’ll need to have read about simple random sampling and how to use a table of random numbers (Babbie, pp. 220-222).
Visit the website http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/. In the box titled “Popular Names by Birth Year,” enter the year 1900, and select the Top 100 names, then click Go. You will see lists of the 100 most popular male and female names from people born in 1900. From each of those two lists, select a simple random sample of five names, using the random number table as instructed on pages 220-222. Then describe the steps you took to create your samples.
A. SAMPLE OF MALES’ NAMES SELECTED:
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B. SAMPLE OF FEMALES’ NAMES SELECTED :
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C. Describe what you did to generate these samples.
Required Source ONLY:
Chapters 8 and 7 in Earl Babbie, The Basics of Social Research, 6th ed. Wadsworth, 2014. ISBN 113359414X
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