1.13 Attending college in your state or in another state.
The U.S. Census Bureau collects a large amount of information concerning higher education.1 For example, the bureau provides a table that includes the following variables: state, number of students from the state who attend college, and number of students who attend college in their home state.
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(a) The states are the cases. (b) The name of the state is the label variable. (c) Number of students from the state who attend college—quantitative, number of students who attend college in their home state—quantitative. (d) Answers will vary. This would tell you which states have large percentages of students that like to stay “at home” versus small percentages which indicate students’ preference to leave home to attend college.