Voter Participation by Categories in Essay

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In the gender category the most likely to vote is the female voter that has a mild advantage over the male type of voter. This assumption should be analyzed carefully, as often in survey as well as in collected votes some mistakes may appear. The difference between the female and the male voter is very small which indicates that both genders have more or less equal vote intentions and, therefore, reasons for such a small gap cannot be traced to any significant difference in the two elements of the analysis.

In the race category, it is not difficult to asses which of the mentioned races are more likely to vote, as the segment White race is higher than the next identified ones: Black and Hispanic. Nevertheless, in any voting behavior analysis is it important to also identify which of the "all races" element is predominant, as it might turn out that another race could have a higher percentage than, for example, the third race, the Hispanic one.

In the category the elderly people seem to have the highest percentage in voting, with a small difference for the 45-65 years age which can be identified as the middle years.


Based on income, the 1996 Presidential Elections show that the registered voters most likely to vote are those that earn $50.000 or over with 60% of them, followed closely by those between $35.000 and $49.999 with over 48% and those that earn between $25.000 and $34.999.

Based on year of education, college graduates and higher education citizens voted in a proportion of more than 60%, compared with 1-3 years College citizens that voted in less than 50% of their entire number.

In one well-developed paragraph, explain your analysis of the data presented on voter participation for 1996.

The analysis on voter participation for the 1996 Presidential elections shows a rather standard image of voting behavior, similar to the analysis in the first part of the assignment. Taking into consideration the five categories, the voter that has the highest percentage would be an elderly White woman from the upper class with a rather high education. This type of analysis should be taken with reservations in a voting analysis as it only shows the voter with the highest percentage in its demographic factor and, for example, if measured on numbers.....

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