created January 13, 2003

 Deciles Reports

     Both the Spring 2003 BSAD 8010 "Legal, Ethical, and Social Environment" and the Spring 2003 LAWS 3910 "Introduction to Business Law and Ethics" have an Extra Credit assignment dealing with "Deciles Reports".  These assignments are not identical.  However, they have similar building blocks based on "decile variables".  This web page deals with those decile variables.

    Below are listed a variety of variables for decile reports.  With each variable is listed the student name(s) that are responsible for preparing a report based on that variable.  Within each class section, only one student or student group may prepare a report on a specific variable.

    Each Deciles Report contains six PowerPoint slides, printed in horizontal handout form, on one sheet of paper.  See your syllabus.  Those six slides include three graphs and three accompanying slides commenting upon the graphs.  Those three graphs will display data for the world, the USA, and Nebraska.  Those three graphs will display how, in 10% increments, the population is distributed over a given variable.

    The variables below are only some of the variables that would be acceptable.  If student has a particular interest in an area, then that student should propose a variable to the professor.

    DECILES  VARIABLES

INCOME
    wage earner
    per capital
    family

TAXES
    wage earner
    per capital
    family

FAMILY  ISSUES
    age of marriage
    duration of marriage (termination by all causes)
    age of first child's birth
    household family size

HEALTH  CARE
    wage earner's covered by insurance
    children covered by insurance
    per capital annual expenditures on health care
    physicians per capita
    infant mortality
    life expectancy

ENERGY  CONSUMPTION
    oil (aggregated in all of its forms [e.g., gasoline, kerosene]
    electricity

INPUT  CONSUMPTION
    water
    paper
    metal
    pharmaceuticals
    calories per day

POLLUTION  OUTPUT
    waste water
    paper
    metal
    SOx
    NOx

COMMUNICATIONS  INPUTS
    telephone service (includes all forms)
    internet service
    computer ownership
    radio ownership
    TV ownership