Maddie Ganzlin PUAD 5003 Professor Huss 3/7/13 Data Analysis After administering the survey to 300 alumni,

100 responses were collected to be analyzed. 49 respondents were male and 51 respondents were female. Over half (52%) of respondents were between the ages of 22 and 25, followed by 35% of respondents between the ages of 26 and 29, and only 13% were 30 or older. As described earlier, 50% of the chosen respondents were chosen from each graduate major in the School of Public Affairs: Public Affairs and Administration and Criminology and Criminal Justice. 78 of the 100 respondents reported having completed an internship in either their undergraduate or graduate career, with the greatest percentage (40%) having completed one internship and the next highest percentage (32%) having completed 2-3 internships. 27 of the 100 respondents reported that their longest internship lasted between 4 and 6 months, followed by 22 of the 100 respondents reporting between 7 and 9 months. Of the 100 respondents, 89 of them obtained a job in their field following graduation from the School of Public Affairs. The greatest percentage of these 89 respondents (28%) obtained their job within 3 to 5 months of graduation, with the next highest percentage of respondents (23%) obtained their job within 0-2 months. After completing a statistical analysis the data revealed a significant relationship between the completion of an internship and the number of months it took respondents to obtain a job after graduation. After completing the chi-square

test, the p-value for this cross tabulation is .018. Another significant relationship arose between the number of months of the respondents longest internship and the number of months it took respondents to obtain a job after graduation. According to the chi-square test and a p-value of .003, those with longer internships obtained jobs faster upon graduation. After running several regression analyses, several observations can be noted. First, the analysis shows that the completion of an internship accounts for 10% of the variance between the months it took the respondent to obtain a job postgraduation. Also, after comparing these two variables coefficients using t-statistics and their 2-tailed p-values, one can see that the dependent coefficient is not significantly different from zero (.002). This means that the two variables are statistically significant. After completing another bivariate regression analysis, the analysis shows a significant relationship between the number of internships and the number of months it took to obtain a job after graduation, with a significant p-value of .015. There was also significance in this analysis between GPA and the number of months it took to obtain a job after graduation, with a p-value of .002.