Work Load in Campus Students
Work Load in Campus Students
For this project, a total of 20 students from Campus where interviewed regarding the amount of credits they are taking, as well as how many hours per week they work in paid employment. The amount of credits taken constitute the variable ‘Class Load’, while the amount of hours per week at a paid job constitute the variable ‘Work Load’. It could be argued that students who take more credits have less time to work, or vice versa, so an inverse correlation is expected. Descriptive statistics were calculated and presented as mean ± standard deviation for each data set. In the case of Class Load, students took on average 11.4 ± 3.47 hours of credits. For Work Load, students worked on average 32.15 ± 19.66 hours per week. The distribution graphs are as follows:
A high degree of variability was found in terms of work hours per week. The minimum value in this variable was 0 hours per week, while the maximum value was 80 hours per week, thus explaining the variability.
In order to determine if there is any relation between the study variables, a correlation coefficient was calculated, which resulted in r = -0.26. Additionally, a scatterplot to visualize this relationship was plotted as follows:
A correlation coefficient of r = -0.26 indicates a very weak inverse relationship between the variables. This phenomenon is visualized in the scatterplot, where at plain sight it appears to exist no relationship whatsoever. Therefore, within this sample, it cannot be concluded that the amount of credits taken and the amount of hours per week worked share either a positive or a negative relation between them.
