Skill-based
Using software to access and analyze Census data
Identifying independent and dependent variables
Employing control variables
Quantitative writing
Learning how to construct, read, and interpret bivariate tables displaying frequencies and percentages
Using real world data to enhance and support key course concepts
Substance
Examine trends in never married across race and sex between 1950-2020. Are Black women less likely to marry than Black men? By how much has the probability of never marrying increased over this time period?
This activity is used in an Introduction to Social Statistics class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of marital status, race, and sex in the United States over the past seven decades.
The activity demonstrates patterns of marriage and never marriage across cohorts, age, race, and sex.