Case Study
Analysis: The relationship between crime and unemployment rates
MNGT 213
Course Work
P KALYAN
CHAKRAVARTHY
BBA (B.S) 2st year
110170
INTRODUCTION
“Crime is an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited.” Crime includes activities of assault, sexual offences, fraud, corruption, robbery with force and theft of personal property. The measure of crime is known as crime rate.
“People who are willing and able to work but cannot find a job is known as unemployment.”
The more the unemployment in a country the less it is developed.
The main objective of this project is to study the relationship of the crime rate and unemployment rate by using various statistical tools like bar graphs, histogram, scatter plot, etc. DATA DESCRIPTION
Secondary data of 30 country’s crime and unemployment rate across the globe have been taken. The sample size of the data is 30. Since the data is collected only for a single year
(2006) the data is cross-sectional. Statistical analysis is done with the help of excel and SPSS
Dependent Variable: Crime Rate
Independent Variable: Unemployment Rate
The below table shows the primary data of Crime Rate and Unemployment Rate for the year
2006 obtained from secondary research.
S.
No
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
COUNTRY
Mozambique
Zambia
Tanzania
Nigeria
Uganda
Zimbabwe
Lesotho
Swaziland
Botswana
Namibia
Egypt
South Africa
Tunisia
CRIME
RATE
58
46
63
42
47
63
34
63
34
48
36
48
54
UNEMPLOYMENT
RATE
25.3
21
29
19
21.7
27
18
30
15
22.6
18.4
24
23
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Somalia
Brazil
Mexico
Russia
Colombia
Iraq
United States
United Kingdom
France
Canada
India
Georgia
Italy
Australia
Serbia
Singapore
Turkey
66
32
15
18
28
31
21
19
25
References: 1) global finance. 2012. Unemployment Rates in Countries Around the World. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.gfmag.com/tools/global-database/economic-data/11856-worldsunemployment-rates.html#axzz2DUgqjqlI 3) dictionary.com. 2012. crime. [ONLINE] Available at: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/crime 4) David Anderson, R. Dennis Sweeney, J. & Thomas Williams, A., 2001. Statistics for Business and Economics