Engaging in politics

(1) Research Question (RQ) #1: To what extent does age influence level of trust for people in government?
Possible item for dependent variable: “govdook” most recently in 2014 General Social Survey data
Possible item for independent variable: “age” in all years of General Social Survey data
(2) Research Question (RQ) #2: To what extent does age influence level of trust for people in
government?
Possible item for dependent variable: “trustgov” or “bigintrst” in 2020 American National
Election Studies Time Series Pre-Election data
Possible item for independent variable: “VCF0101” in 2020 American National Election Studies
Time Series Pre-Election data
(3) Research Question (RQ) #3: What factors increase the likelihood of a person engaging in
politics?
Possible items for dependent variable: “polfunds” , “volpol”, “vote12”, “vote16” in General
Social Survey data
Possible item for independent variables: “age”, “partyid”, “region”, and/or “sex” in General
Social Survey data