Question

If we wanted to determine whether states that pass clean air legislation (no smoking in public areas) are more likely to enact laws requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets than are states that had not passed clean air legislation, the unit of analysis would be:a. the individual states.b. the individual act of legislation.c. passage or nonpassage of the clean air legislation. d. the clean air legislation.e. states that passed clean air legislation.

Answer 1

A) the individual states.

Step-by-step explanation:

The unit of analysis is who or what is being analyzed as part of a research project. While the unit of observation is the thing (fact, response, action, etc.) that is observed in the research project.

In this case the unit of analysis are the individual states and the units of observation are laws requiting motorcyclists to wear helmets and clean air legislation.