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Performance ratings of government agencies. The U.S.
Chapter , Problem 129E(choose chapter or problem)
Performance ratings of government agencies. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requires government agencies to produce annual performance and accounting reports (PARS) each year. A research team at George Mason University evaluated the quality of the PARS for 24 government agencies (The Public Manager, Summer 2008). Evaluation scores ranged from 12 (lowest) to 60 (highest). The PARS evaluation scores for two consecutive years are shown in the next table.
a. Construct a scattergram for the data. Do you detect a trend in the data?
b. Based on the graph, identify one or two agencies that had greater than expected PARS evaluation scores for 2008.
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QUESTION:
Performance ratings of government agencies. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requires government agencies to produce annual performance and accounting reports (PARS) each year. A research team at George Mason University evaluated the quality of the PARS for 24 government agencies (The Public Manager, Summer 2008). Evaluation scores ranged from 12 (lowest) to 60 (highest). The PARS evaluation scores for two consecutive years are shown in the next table.
a. Construct a scattergram for the data. Do you detect a trend in the data?
b. Based on the graph, identify one or two agencies that had greater than expected PARS evaluation scores for 2008.
ANSWER:Step 1 of 3
Let us consider a data set:
Agency |
Year1 |
Year 2 |
Transportation |
55 |
53 |
Labor |
53 |
51 |
Veterans |
51 |
51 |
NRC |
39 |
34 |
Commerce |
37 |
36 |
HHS |
37 |
35 |
DHS |
37 |
30 |
Justice |
35 |
37 |
Treasury |
35 |
35 |
GSA |
34 |
40 |
Agriculture |
33 |
35 |
EPA |
33 |
36 |
Social Security |
33 |
33 |
USAID |
32 |
42 |
Education |
32 |
36 |
Interior |
32 |
31 |
NASA |
32 |
32 |
Energy |
31 |
34 |
HUD |
31 |
30 |
NSF |
31 |
31 |
State |
31 |
50 |
OPM |
27 |
28 |
SBA |
22 |
31 |
Defense |
17 |
32 |
Here our goal is:
a). We need to construct a scatterplot for the data. Also we have to check the trend in the data.
b). We need to identify one or two agencies that had greater than expected PARS evaluation scores for year 2.