Week 1 asks to describe the data management steps taken for the dataset selected by describing 1) the sample, 2) the data collection procedure, and 3) a measures section describing the variables and how its been managed to address the research question. The sample The sample dataset being used for the study is the gapminder dataset. This dataset consists of data on 213 countries. Looking at the sample based on incomeperperson a substantial portion of the countries have income below $10000 (N=143; 66%) and a small percentage above $30000 (N=16; 7.5%). The oilperperson has a substantial portion of country data missing (N=150;70%). Barring this most of the other non missing data have countries (N=51;24%) consuming less than 2 tonnes per year per person. The frequency distribution of the polityscore variable shows that most of the countries are highly democratic i.e. score > 5 score (N=97;45%). The armedforces category shows 23% of the data ...