A Researcher Is Interested to Know Whether People of Different

Multiple Choice

A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.2, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents' sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question "On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?" The researcher re-coded DEMTODAY with the command "DEMTODAY (R: 0-2; 3-5; 6-7; 8-10) ."
Figure 5.2

-Which of the following statements best describes the meaning of the 19.8, in the upper-left corner of Figure 5.2?

A) Of all the respondents surveyed, 19.8 % of respondents identified as lower-class and believed that democracy in America is not working well at all.
B) Of the respondents who believed that democracy in America is not working at all, 19.8% described themselves as being from the lower-class.
C) Of those respondents described themselves as lower-class, 19.8 believed that democracy in America is not working at all.
D) About 20 people surveyed identified as lower-class and believed that democracy in America is not working well at all.