Statistical Analysis Assignment



Statistical Analysis Assignment

Introduction

The given data has comprised of many factors that directly or indirectly related to HIV Aids diseases. It have various factors that defines the psychological, social, cultural and economical effects that faced due to HIV Aids diseases which has considered as a most dangerous and plague diseases that ruined the life of a person. The data of 679 respondents have collected that help the researcher to examine the HIV Aids characteristics (Heckerman, et.al, 1995). The data has various parts which help to distinguish according to different variables. The variables of the data area as follows:

Demographic Data

Knowledge

Perception

Compression about disease

Event about disease

Social factors

Medical treatment

Through all these factors, the researchers can easily evaluate the intensity of this HIV Aids data that help them to further comprehend according to their perceptions and needs.

Discussion

Demographic Characteristics and With Perceptions

In any research, demographic characteristics are used to evaluate the background, profile and status of the selected respondents of the study. These demographic data are effectual to categorize the targeted population in terms of age group, education, gender, marital status and the other variables that has used according to the nature of the research study. In this collected data, the researchers have targeted 679 respondents of different age groups. It is effectual for researchers to use the variables of demographic in the questionnaire because through this process, they are adequate to compile and categorize the respondents profile according to their demographic variables.

It is also effectual for researchers to use personal data of the respondents which affluent for them to examine the respondent's profile. The perception defines the opinions of the selected respondents about HIV Aids. The spread of this diseases has discussed in perception that provided by the respondents. The perception data includes various options that have collected by open ended question. The HIV is a serious epidemic disease that has enhanced in the society due to various factors. The demographic characteristics and perception of the respondents has affluent for identify the total number of respondents in different perception (Weisberg, 2013).

Location

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Othaya

161

23.7

47.9

47.9

Mathari

48

7.1

14.3

62.2

Nursing

42

6.2

12.5

74.7

Kipipiri

85

12.5

25.3

100.0

Total

336

49.5

100.0

Missing

System

343

50.5

Total

679

100.0

See Appendix A (Demographic Characteristics & Perception Frequency charts)

Interpretation

The researchers the respondent's data from four main regions in which the number of respondents has participated in the lowest number of data has collected from nursing department. Half of the data was used from secondary sources which help the researchers to highlight the variables that has used in the data collection. The age group of the respondents has categorized from 18 to 74 years which covers almost all age level groups respondents. The different frequencies in the age group define the variation in data set. The education level of the selected respondents is from primary to graduate level where majority of the respondents are from primary to college level. In gender, 40.9 were the male participants whereas 58.6 are female with different marital status. The perception values and frequencies are different in terms ...