Activity 16.1
Reading a Multivariate Percentage Table

Name the independent and dependent variables in Table 16.7 (below).
What are the values of the dependent variable?
In the upper left-hand corner of the table is the value 50.8 percent. What does that percentage represent?

Are 25.9 percent of those against less government regulation of business liberal women?
Is ideology related to attitude regarding regulation of business, regardless of sex?
Regardless of ideology, do males show greater opposition to regulation of business than females?
Write a paragraph describing the relationship among the variables in the table.