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Alcohol Consumption and employment rate.

First Assignment

I've chosen the Gapminder data set. I think it would be interesting to see different aspects referred to the development of each country and the differences between them. I decided that I'm particularly interested in the relationship that could exist between alcohol consumption and employment rate over the countries and maybe other relationships like the suicide rate.

A good starting point to determine if there is a correlation between alcohol consumption and the employment rate per country is to identify the associated variables. I need to determine what it is about alcohol consumption that I am interested in. In this case, the first variables to consider are the employment rate and the alcohol consumption rate. Another variable to consider could be the income per person because I think it relates to both variables, in the fact that the average income per person is related to the employment rate cause if there is a low employment rate, the average income per person is reduced possibly that produce an increase in the alcohol consumption rate, or maybe a high alcohol consumption rate produces a low employment rate and is reflected in the average income. I added to my codebook variables that reflect this data.

A second topic that is related to the first one is trying to find a correlation between alcohol consumption and the income per person and try to see if there exists some relation between them. I think it would be interesting to see if a high consumption of alcohol is related to a low income or vice versa. To make all this, I do a series of questions to explain what result I'm trying to obtain from the data for solving these questions, these questions were

Is a high alcohol consumption rate associated with a low employment rate?

Is alcohol consumption related to the average income per person?

High alcohol consumption is associated with low income?

Also, search on the internet to find research that has been done previously on this topic. And I found that this has been extensively studied, I selected a list of different articles referring to this topic, to use them to try to create a hypothesis. After looking at the different articles I figured out that is real that there exists a relationship between the level of alcohol consumption in a country and low employment rates, so I hypothesize that a high level of alcohol consumption is related to a low employment rate.

In summary, I've decided to work with the Gapminder dataset and try to find if there exists a correlation between the level of alcohol consumption and the employment rate. For do this I selected the variables alcconsumption, employrate, and incomeperperson. And I hypothesize that a high level of alcohol consumption is related to a low employment rate.

References

Forcier, M. W. (1988). Unemployment and Alcohol Abuse: A Review. Journal of Occupational Medicine, 30(3), 246–251. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45007884

Rodriguez E, Lasch KE, Chandra P, et al Family violence, employment status, welfare benefits, and alcohol drinking in the United States: what is the relation? Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2001;55:172-178.

Rodriguez E, Lasch KE, Chandra P, Lee J. The relation of family violence, employment status, welfare benefits, and alcohol drinking in the United States. West J Med. 2001 May;174(5):317-23. doi 10.1136/ewjm.174.5.317. PMID: 11342506; PMCID: PMC1071386.