The Effects of Politics on Marital

Status
By: Miles D. Robinson Jr.
SOWK 300-01
Exercise #5
 Variables and Values
Variables Name Values
Dependant Variable Marital Status Marries
Widowed
Seperated
Divorced
Never Married

Independent Variable Politics Liberal

Tend Lib
Moderate
Tend Con
Conservative

Control Variable Gender Male

Female
Hypothesis and Rationale Bivariate
The choice of a person’s political outlook affects his or her marital status. A
larger percentage of respondents who are conservatives will stay married.

Politics Marital Status

Hypothesis and Rationale Multivariate
The choice of being a Liberal Increases the
percent of genders never being Married.

Gender

Politics Marital Status

 Findings: Bivariate table
Marital Status by Politics

Politics

Marital Liberal Tend. Liberal Moderate Tend.Cons Conservative

Married 48.4 47.7 51.4 56.5 61.3
Widowed 7.8 8.3 10.8 9.7 13.3
Divorced 11.5 18.7 15.0 15.3 10.3
N. Married 3.6 1.6 4.2 2.4 .4
 Findings: Multivariate Table
Marital Status By Politics
By Gender

Gender of Respondents
Male Respondents Female respondent

Politics Politics
Marital Liberal Conservative Marital Liberal Conservative
Married 53.7 72.2 Married 44.5 51.7
Widowed 3.9 3.0 Widowed 10.0 22.1
Divorced 3.7 8.3 Divorced 17.3 12.1
Separated 1.2 .8 Separated 5.5 0.0
N. Married 36.6 15.8 N. Married 22.7 14.1
 Bivariate Graph & Discussion
Relationship Between Marital Status and Politics
100%
90%
80% Never Married
70%
60% Seperated
50%
40% Divorced
30% Widowed
20%
10% Married
0%

Your political outlook has a great affect on your 61.3 percent of the respondents that were
Percentage of staying or becoming married. Conservatives were married compared to only 48.4
percent that were Liberals.
 Multivariate Graph & Discussion
Relationship between Marital Status and Politics Controlling for
Gender

100

50
Men
0 Women
Men

The beneficial effects of politics on 71.2 percent of males who are conservatives
marital status is greater for Males. Are married compared to Females with the
Same political outlook.