The Effects of Age and Race

on Political Outlook
By Clinton Ferguson
SOWK 300-01 Spring
Exercise #5
 Variables & Values
Variables Name Values
Liberal
Tend Lib
Dependent Variable Political Outlook Moderate
Tend Cons
Conservative

18-29
Independent Variable Age 30-39
40-49
50+

Black
Control Variable Race White
 Hypothesis and Rationale
Bivariate
The age of a person affects his or her political outlook. The older a
person gets, the more their political outlook becomes conservative.
In this way a large percentage of respondents in the 50+ age group
will be conservative compared to the 18-29 age group which will be
more liberal.

Political
Age
Outlook
 Hypothesis and Rationale
Multivirate
The age of a person affects his or her political outlook. The older the
person is the more conservative their political outlook will be.
Younger age groups tend to be more liberal compared to older age
groups which have a more conservative political outlook. Taking
race into account black people hold more liberal views in contrast to
white people who tend to be more conservative.

Race

Political
Age Outlook
 Findings: Bivariate Table

Political Outlook By Age

Political Outlook
Age Liberal Tend Lib Moderate Tend Cons Conservative
18-29 14.4 16.6 37.2 17.7 14.1

30-39 12.2 16.9 37.9 19.2 13.7

40-49 17.3 12.5 38.0 16.6 25.6

50+ 11.4 9.8 34.5 25.9 28.4

 Findings: Multivariate Table
Political Outlook By Age
By Race
Race of Respondents
White Respondents Black Respondents
Political Outlook Political Outlook
Age Liberal Conservative Age Liberal Conservative
18-29 14.5 14.0 18-29 10.5 15.8
30-39 11.2 14.0 30-39 21.1 7.9
40-49 14.0 15.3 40-49 35.3 11.8
50+ 10.9 29.0 50+ 16.7 22.9
 Bivariate Graph & Discussion
Relationship By Age By Political Outlook
Percent With Conservative Political Outlook By Age
30
25
Percent in 20
Conservative
15
Category
10
5
0
18-29 30-39 40-49 50+

Age Category

28% of respondent’s in the

The older a person
50+ age category hold a
gets the more their
conservative political
Political outlook
outlook compared to 14% of
becomes conservative.
respondent’s in the 18-29
age category.
 Multivariate Graph & Discussion
Relationship By Age By Political Outlook Controlling for Race
Percent With Conservative Outlook By Age By Race
35

30

25

Percent in 20
Conservative White
15
Category
10
Black
5

18-29 30-39 40-49 50+

Age Category
The percentage of conservative In most age categories White people
political outlook is greater for Black hold a significantly higher conservative
people than White people. Political outlook than Black people do.