about our study

Stats Project Background

    Our project proposal is on the work habits of North Olmsted high schoolers. Before proceeding with our project we decided to gather some brief background information on studies similar to ours. First we proceeded to Google to search for information and studies. We first searched for “the percentage of high schoolers that have jobs”. This search resulted in many choices however, we decided on the website called: National Center For Education Statistics. The article on this website was titled “Employment of High School Students”, and discussed the statistics found for this topic. The article states that “approximately 16 percent of high school students age 16 years and above were employed; 7 percent were employed for less than 15 hours per week.” (http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_ehs.asp) Unfortunately this website did not have any further information on our topic, so we returned to Google to search for more information.

After spending time on Google and coming up with little results we turned to the Bing search engine in hopes of finding more results. On Bing we searched “percentage of high schoolers that
work”. After looking through one or two websites we discovered one (http://www.ur.umich.edu/9293/Mar29_93/21.htm) that gave us futher information. The article on this website was: “Part-time work for high schoolers may cost more than it pays”. The article stated that “nearly one-third of U.S. high school seniors report working more than 20 hours per week, with 15 percent of males and 9 percent of females working 31 hours a week or more.” After viewing this web page we returned to Bing to search for more studies. On Bing we entered “ Do high school students make above or below minimum wage on average?” we came upon the website: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/01/who-earns-the-minimum-wage-suburban-teenagers-not-single-parents . The title of the article was “Who Earns the Minimum Wage? Suburban Teenagers, Not Single Parents”. Even though it was from 2007 and pertained to a larger age group of people the data is similar to the data we hope to find from our study. The article stated that 52 percent of those earning $5.15 (the minimum wage for the time) or less per hour are between the ages of 16 and 24. After visiting this web-site we returned to Bing to search for more background information. We next entered into Bing ‘ Do high school students work above 20 hours a week?’. This search came up with many web-sites but one contained some very interesting information. The site, http://www.querycat.com/question/d272f33cf61d0f739d663ddeddea63f4, was a quesion and answer site. However, it contained a question that related to our study, which was: Can a student work more than 20 hours a week? The answer to this question was: “The student can work 20 hours a week during school and more that 20 hours during breaks if they have sufficient funding and their employer approves it.” On the same web-site a similar question was asked with a different answer. The answer to the question this time was: “Students may work a maximum of 30 hours per week while school is in session (40 hours/week during break periods). However, on average, students work approximately 10-15 hours per week.” Both pieces of information from this web-site only pertain to students in general. This means the information could include any student from high school up through college. However, this information still can slightly relate to our study on high schooler work habits.

With all the background information and studies we have discovered, it will be interesting to see if our study will 2013. All Rights Reserved. turn out with similar results or be affected by some of the factors.