PAD 121 RESEARCH PROJECT
You must submit a research report and an Excel file (if you use Excel to complete this assignment) to Blackboard during Week 15. No late submission will be accepted.
Your report must not exceed 4 pages of double-spaced, 12-point font, including a cover (title) page, charts, graphs, tables, footnotes and references in Word Document. Texts in charts, graphs, and tables should be single-spaced. Appendices are not included in the 5-page count. •
Along with a report in Word Document, you must also submit an Excel file that contains the data you uses and displays your calculations, graphs, and charts.
On the cover page, the title, the date of submission, your name and course information.
The body of the report must include following four sections: (1) Identification of A Problem and Research Question, (2) Data and Method, (3) Results, and (4) Discussion. If you use information obtained from any sources in the paper, references should be listed at the end of the paper in APA Style. For detailed information about the required sections of a research report, please see below.
Identification of A Problem and Research Question. In this section, you should address what problem(s) local, state, or federal government is facing, what research question you study to help the government solve the problem, and why answering to the research question is important in tackling the problem.
Data and Method. In this section, you should explain about the data and research method(s) you use to answer the research question. With respect to the data, you should provide (a) data title and a link to the data set (copy and paste the URL of the web page) that you found on a government website, (c) the name of data provider 2 (organization or department name) and (d) a short explanation about data contents (what is the data about?).
To explain your research method(s), the following items should be discussed in this section: (a) data analysis tool (e.g., Excel 2016) and (b) analysis process through which you went to analyze the data in order to answer the research question.
Results. Answer the research question by presenting your findings. Tables, charts, and graphs that support and/or summarize your findings should be provided in this section.
Discussion. Based on the findings in the previous section, suggest recommendations (what government should do) to solve the problem that you stated early in the paper.
References (if applicable). Using the APA citation format, list the sources of information that you use in the body of the paper.
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