You are an economic consultant working for a pressure group. You have been employed to write a report in Microsoft Word containing a statistical analysis conducted in Microsoft Excel or R. Your employer will give you a question they want you to answer. Your employer will also tell you the conclusion that they wish you reach. The report must look professional and be written in a formal tone. It should not read like a polemic, and you should not do anything explicitly dishonest in your analysis. You must arrive at your conclusions by making defensible decisions about data and sample selection, data cleaning, and analysis.
Your report will be not be longer than 2500 words, all inclusive. It should contain:
 A brief abstract of less than 100 words, outlining your question and conclusions.
 An introduction outlining the question that you have been asked, the steps you will take to answer it, and a preview of what you find.
 A literature review containing a scholarly description three academic papers you have found, properly referenced in a bibliography. As your goal is to convince, you should choose the most reputable, published articles you can find, that happen to support your intended conclusions.
 A description of the data including at least a table of summary statistics, which should include the number of observations, mean, max, and minimum values for the variables you will use.
 A graphical and statistical analysis. You will use graphs and statistics to convince your reader. You should appear to be honest about sampling problems – you need at minimum a discussion of confidence intervals.
 A very brief conclusion. Just report your question, your answer, and what the consequences might be.
The statement:
Increase public satisfaction with the outcome of the 2016 "Brexit" vote. Demonstrate using data from Eurostat on GDP (in Euros) that the UK did comparatively well in Europe after the Brexit vote.