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College of Economics and Business Administration
Macroeconomics BSBA2005
Group Assignment Guidelines
Macroeconomic Data Analysis: Trends and
Relationships
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Macroeconomics
OUTLINE OF ASSIGNMENT:
1. Select the country of your choice.
2. Collect the real-world macroeconomic datasets. (use following website to collect the data
https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators).
3. Conduct descriptive and graphical analysis to examine trends and relationships between variables
such as GDP, consumption, investment, inflation, and unemployment.
4. Then interpret their findings and draw conclusions about the state of the economy.
Assignment Components:
1. Data Selection: Please collect the data from the given website for your country of choice
for the following variables. Collect the data for atleast 20 years.
(a) GDP
(b) Inflation
(c) Unemployment
(d) interest rates
(e) government spending
(f) exports
(g) imports,
2. Data Cleaning: to clean and organize the data to ensure accuracy and consistency. This
may involve removing missing or erroneous data points, formatting variables
appropriately, and creating a tidy data set suitable for analysis.
3. Descriptive Analysis: Conduct descriptive analysis of the macroeconomic data to
summarize key trends and patterns over time. This may include generating summary
statistics (mean, median, standard deviation etc), creating time series plots, and identifying
notable changes or fluctuations in the data series.
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5. Interpretation and Conclusion: Interpret your findings and draw conclusions about the
state of the economy based on analysis.
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4. Correlation Analysis: Explore relationships between different macroeconomic variables
by calculating correlation coefficients and creating scatterplots or correlation matrices.
Then interpret the strength and direction of the correlations and discuss potential economic
explanations for observed relationships.
General Instructions for Assignment:
1. Check spelling and ensure consistency of layout, headings, typestyles and sizes: ▪
Font should be Times New Roman, 12
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Assignment should be 1.5 line spacing
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Main Headings – Size 16, Capital and Bold
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Sub-Headings – Size 14, Underlined, Bold
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Page Margins 1.25” on all the sides.
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Add number of pages (excluding the cover page)
2. Add a Table of Contents.
3. Produce a Cover page, which should have the University Name, Department Name,
Assignment Title, your full name and ID number. Border the whole page.
Some Guidance on Assignment Writing:
1. Moodle : The assignment must be submitted through Turnitin links created in Moodle and
also submit print copy.
5. Plagiarism: Do not plagiarise – Plagiarised coursework could result in a no
grade being awarded for the subject.
Work which submitted for assessment must be your own work. You must recognize
and reference any material from books, articles or websites that you incorporate
into your assignment.
The following are the suggested guidelines to deal with plagiarism for this assignment
until we get policy from ministry:
• 0 % to 25% = No reduction
• 26% to 50% = reduce 20% marks
• 51% to 75% = reduce 40% marks
assignment as follows: Surname of author, year, Title of book or article/Journal
Name, Publisher, Page Reference.
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6. References: should be listed alphabetically by author surname at the end of the
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• Above 75% = revise if not zero marks
E.g. Mankiw, N,G. (2006), Principles of Economics, Thomson South-Western, page
68.
Assessment Guide:
Criteria
A
An excellent answer. Shows evidence of relevant reading; illustrates and
applies appropriate examples; constructs logical analysis and argument; draws
to an appropriate conclusion.
B
As for A grade but lacks in comparison, either in terms of depth of argument,
the appropriateness of examples, or the logic and conclusion; evidence of
relevant reading must be shown.
C
Demonstrates good knowledge of some of the principles and theories
involved. Limited analysis, evaluation and research.
D
Worthy of a pass but is weaker in terms of depth, logic and conclusion to the
argument used; no/poor examples and illustrations; tends to be more
descriptive rather than analytical; limited evidence of relevant reading
F
Not worthy of a pass but does contain some relevant argument; tends to be
descriptive.
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