Most Common Types of Home Improvements

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Most Common Types of Home Improvements
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What Home Improvement Items Did Male Readers
Purchase?
At least 75 of male readers bought home
improvement items.
Test of p 0.75 vs. not 0.75 X111, N 123
p 0.902439 95 CI (0.835781, 0.948565)
P-Value 0.000
Table 47
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Kitchen/Bath Items are purchased more often than
Light Fixtures.
We are 95 confident that the true percentage of
magazine recipients that purchase
kitchen/bathroom items is between 8 and 24
greater than those that purchase light fixtures.
95 CI for difference (0.0821886,
0.240618) Test for difference 0 (vs not 0)
Z 3.99 P-Value 0.0000409  
From Table 47
(z, n 285, p .0000409).
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How Many Did Their Own Home Improvements?
79
67
68
68
68
68
60
31
The graph shows that for each home improvement
item, at least 50 of Tennessee Magazine
respondents did their own home improvements
rather than hiring an outside contractor.
Tables 48-61
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• Data analysis
• suggests that there is
• no direct relationship
• between the amount of money earned and the hiring
  of outside contractors.

P50K P
Table 48
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Do Rural or City Households Perform Their Own
Plumbing Work More Often?
43 n14
or
73 n66
Due to insufficient sample size, particularly in
the city, it is not possible to determine whether
or not there is a relationship between locality
and households performing their own plumbing work.
95 CI for difference (0.0180911,
0.579312) Test for difference 0 (vs not 0)
Z 2.09 P-Value 0.037
Table 50 106
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Do Females Or Males Use an Outside Contractor for
Exterior Painting More Often?  
 
FEMALE
n40
MALE
n33
Although the percentage of females using outside
contractors is greater than that of males, we can
not determine any significant difference between
all female and male magazine recipients because
the sample size was too small.
95 CI for difference (-0.0238269,
0.331403) Test for difference 0 (vs not 0)
Z 1.70 P-Value 0.090
Table 60
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78 bought exterior paint
(20.5)
15
Used Cont.
Homeowners purchasing exterior paint are more
likely to hire the work done.
129 bought interior paint
10
(7.75)
Used Cont.
Tables 60 61
PE PI, 95 CI (0.0244200, 0.231500)
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Who Bought more paint men or women?
56.2
55.3
There is no significant difference in the number
of females and males who purchased paint
Table 47
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Paint or Wallpaper?
We are 95 confident that the percentage of all
recipients who purchase paint is between 34.7
and 48.8 greater than the percentage of all
recipients who purchase wallpaper/covering.
95 CI for difference (0.347182, 0.487906) Test
for difference 0 (vs not 0) Z 11.63
P-Value 0.000
Table 47
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How Many are Likely to Remodel
93
85
80
75
70
25
30
20
15
7
The graph shows that for each type of remodeling,
less than 30 of Tennessee Magazine respondents
said they are likely to do any type of remodeling
to their home in the next 12 months.

• Tables 64-68

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The percentage of Readers under 50 who will
remodel in the next year exceeds the percentage
over 50 by 15.
Sample 1 x 59, N 179 p 0.329609
Sample 2 x 55, N 115 p 0.478261
Estimate for p(1)- p(2) (-0.263008,
-0.0342959) Test for p(1)-p(2)0 Z
-2.55 P-Value 0.011
Table 81
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Of readers that will remodel, those with no
childrenat home exceed those with children by 24
38 have children at home
62 have no children at home
Sample 1 x70, N 113, p0.619469 Sample 2
x43, N 113, p0.380531 Estimate for p(1)-p(2)
0.238938. (0.112340,0.365537) Test for
p(1)-p(2) 0 Z 3.70 P-Value 0.0000
Tables 92, 95, 98, 101.
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Remodel the Kitchen

• 79 of the people who were likely to do Home
  improvement work will remodel their kitchen
• 21 of the people who were likely to do Home
  improvement work, will not remodel their kitchen

• Home owners who did home improvement work are
  more likely to
• remodel their kitchen in the next
• 12 months than home owners who didnt
• do any home improvement work within the last 12
  months

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Remodel the Bathroom

• A higher percent of home owners who did some form
  of remodeling within the past 12 months will also
  remodel their bathroom within the next year.
• 85 of the people who were likely to do Home
  improvement work will remodel their bathroom