Assignment: Country Profile (South Korea)
- Search for and download data for the United States and South Korea, for 1970-2015, for the following measures:
- Capital-income ratio, using the “net private wealth % of national income” measure.
- Income inequality, using on of the “Top 1% income share” measures.
- Gini Coefficient.
*Note that data may not be available for every year for each variable.
*Be sure you reference your data sources and include them in your reference list.
- Using Microsoft Excel, generate a separate line graph for each variable (3 separate line graphs, 2 countries each). Be sure to label all the variables and axes, and to add titles to your tables.
- Write a short paper that compares your country with either the United States or Canada (whichever you chose). Your paper should have the following sections:
Section 1: Introduction
The paper should begin with an introduction that briefly explains what the paper is about and summarizes your findings.
Section 2: Main Body
This is where you define your variables, discuss your findings for each variable, and present your data in line graph format. How would you classify your country with respect to its level of inequality? Explain.
Section 3: Conclusion
The final section of paper should end with a conclusion that briefly summarizes the main arguments you have made in the paper.
Section 4: References
Include a reference list according to APA format. The only sources you need to complete this assignment are the data sources, but if you consult and use information from other sources, including readings for the course, you must cite them correctly.
Assignment Referencing Style
My preference is that assignments use the American Psychological Association (APA) reference style. See https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ for a useful style guide. If you prefer to use a different established academic referencing system, please contact me to discuss.
Do not plagiarize: be sure to cite the sources of ideas that are not your own as well as direct quotations of words that are not your own. There is helpful information about plagiarism on this page on the library website: http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/dafoe/media/plagiarism.pdf