BHS Stat
October 14, 1999
The Data Desk file DUI by State contains
data collected by the Mothers Against Drunk Driving [1], and
the US Department of Justice [2] on juvenile(under 21) DUI
arrest rates.
The variables in this data file are:
- State (name of
state),[3]
- Pop (1995 population for each state in
1995),
- Male Pop (number of males in each state in
1995),
- Fem Pop (number of females in each state in
1995),
- U21 Pop (number of juveniles in each state
in 1995),
- U21 Male (number of juvenile males in each
state in 1995),
- U21 Fem (number of juvenile femailes in
each state in 1995)
- %Juv (percent of state population that is
juvenile)
- %JuvM (percent of state population that is
juvenile males)
- %JuvF ((percent of state population that is
juvenile females)
- DUI/100k (number of juveniles arrested per
100,000 juveniles in the state)
- Region1, Region2 (region within which state
lies -- two variables for two categorization
methods)
- %Report (percent of districts within the
state that reported data for this survey),
Examine this data using any tools provided by
Data Desk.
- Present the data in ways that show
interesting patterns or relationships. Remember, Muck
Around with the data. Don’t fixate on answering a
specific question.
- Describe the patterns and relationships
that you find.
- Take the perspective of a
person who wants to communicate to an audience (who has not
analyzed the data) the pattern or relationship you found.
Accordingly, your descriptions should be clear and precise
--say what you intend they understand, and say it in a
way that will help them understand it fully.
- Suggest plausible explanations that answer
the question why the data might have the patterns or relationships
you found.
- A "plausible explanation" is
one that, if accurate, provides insight into the cases being
represented. Good explanations tend to focus more on the
situation and the cases than on the data itself. A plausible
explanation is one that leads you to say "Of course! That makes
sense!" as you look at a presentation of the data.
Notes
[1]
http://www.dui.com/ids/kids.html
[2] Snyder, Howard N. (1995). Juvenile
arrests for driving under the influence, 1995. OJJDP Fact Sheet,
October, 1997.
[3] Population figures derived from US
Census Bureau data:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/stagesex.html