Work/Allowance Survey
| Male - 33 | Female - 46 |
1. Do you receive an allowance?
| Yes - 64 | No - 19 | No response - 1 |
2. If you said yes to number 1, how much do you receive per week?
| $0.01 to $1.00 | 6 |
| $1.01 to $2.00 | 7 |
| $2.01 to $3.00 | 10 |
| $3.01 to $4.00 | 1 |
| $4.01 to $5.00 | 12(mode) |
| $5.01 to $6.00 | 8 |
| greater then $6.00 | 20 |
The team average of those receiving an allowance was $6.00 ($384 / 64).
The team average all students was $4.57 ($384 / 84).
3. If you said yes to number 1, do you complete a chore to earn the allowance?
| Yes - 54 (84%) | No - 9 (15%) | No response - 1 (1%) |
4. If you said no to number 1, would you be willing to do a chore to earn an allowance?
| Yes - 15 (79%) | No - 4 (21%) |
5. What do you spend most of your money on?
| Music | 11 | Food | 4 | Clothes | 13 | Savings | 42 |
Other answers (25) included Included: basketball cards, knives, restoring a car, movies, skating, dances, activities and other forms of entertainment.
Work/Allowance Analysis
We conducted this survey to find out information relating to sixth graders allowances. Eighty-four people participated in our survey. Below is a pie graph explaining the percentage of sixth graders who receive an allowance. Sixty-four students said they did receive an allowance and nineteen people said they received no allowance. One person did not complete the survey correctly.
From this question we discovered that the vast majority of sixth-grade students receive money weekly. Most of the students (forty-two of the sixty-four) who have an allowance deposited part of it into a saving account as indicated in question 5 of the survey.
The average amount for the 64 people who receive allowances was $6.00. Four dollars and fifty-seven cents was the average allowance of all students participating in the survey. The mode of those who receive allowances was $4.01 to $5.00. The graph below shows the results of this question. At the bottom of the chart, the dollars represent the amount of money the students receive for allowance. The numbers on the left side of the chart labeled number are the number of students responding.
The next question on the survey asked whether or not the students completed a chore to earn their allowance. We discovered that fifty-four students do complete a chore to receive their allowance, while nine people receive an allowance without working. One person did not respond correctly. The pie chart below indicates the results of this question in percentage form.
From this question we found out that the norm for most students receiving money weekly is to work for it. The survey did not asked the nine students who received an allowance without doing a chore if they would do a chore in order to earn their money.
The most interesting fact we discovered in this survey was revealed in question number 4, "If you don't receive an allowance, would you be willing to work to get one?". Out of the nineteen students who don't receive an allowance, four students stated that they would not be willing to work to earn one. The other fifteen would be willing to work to earn an allowance. The pie graph below indicates our findings.
If our fellow students represent the work ethic of most Americans, this would indicate that about 5% (4 students divided by 84 students surveyed) of the population is not willing to work for an income. We were wondering if this was indeed true of the adult population able to work. Therefore, we will send our survey results to the Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich. We thought he might be interested in our findings because there is a great deal of concern in America today about welfare reform and/or workfare.
Work/Allowance Survey by Natalie Perrin and Sara Pierotti. 1995
