Business 350
1. I want to study the relationship between GDP per capita and the adolescent fertility rate. To do this, I have made GDP per capita (constant 2000 US$) my main independent variable and adolescent fertility rate (births per 1000 women ages 15-19) my dependent variable. I also plan to analyze data from other variables such as life expectancy, public spending on education, and the total fertility rate, in order to draw conclusions and deduce if there is a statistically significant relationship among them.
2. This topic in particular is of interest to me because, as a child of a teenage mother, I have always been concerned with the contributing factors, which can cause adolescent pregnancy. I think that adolescent fertility rate and GDP per capita are very key variables and that they could have a strong negative correlation. Also, I will be able to draw other conclusions from the variables I have selected, and will be able gain insight into additional topics from certain countries. An example of this would be if a particular country has an exceptionally low GDP per capita, and public spending on education as well as a low life expectancy, and high fertility rate it would not be completely unwarranted to assume that this is not a particularly wealthy country. In addition, by studying this issue, I will be able to evaluate how adolescent fertility rate relates to my other variables such as life expectancy, public spending on education, and total fertility rate.
3. My sample was from the WDI, or World Development Indicators source. I chose to use this website to collect my data because I am interested in analyzing data from several countries rather than data from several companies, primarily all located in the United States. Since I knew that I wanted to study the relationship of adolescent fertility rate and GDP per capita, I started collecting my sample by looking in the variable indexes for subjects that I thought could also be somehow related to
2. This topic in particular is of interest to me because, as a child of a teenage mother, I have always been concerned with the contributing factors, which can cause adolescent pregnancy. I think that adolescent fertility rate and GDP per capita are very key variables and that they could have a strong negative correlation. Also, I will be able to draw other conclusions from the variables I have selected, and will be able gain insight into additional topics from certain countries. An example of this would be if a particular country has an exceptionally low GDP per capita, and public spending on education as well as a low life expectancy, and high fertility rate it would not be completely unwarranted to assume that this is not a particularly wealthy country. In addition, by studying this issue, I will be able to evaluate how adolescent fertility rate relates to my other variables such as life expectancy, public spending on education, and total fertility rate.
3. My sample was from the WDI, or World Development Indicators source. I chose to use this website to collect my data because I am interested in analyzing data from several countries rather than data from several companies, primarily all located in the United States. Since I knew that I wanted to study the relationship of adolescent fertility rate and GDP per capita, I started collecting my sample by looking in the variable indexes for subjects that I thought could also be somehow related to