a) Identify the population of interest.

Question

Exercise One
The student union of University of Professional Studies conducts a study about alcohol abuse among students. One hundred of the 13, 867 members of the students body are sampled and asked to complete a questionnaire. One question asked is “ On how many days in the past week did you consume at least one alcoholic drink?”
a) Identify the population of interest.

b) For the 13,867 students, one characteristics of interest was the percentage who would respond zero to this question. This value is computed for the 100 students sampled. Is it a parameter or a statistic? Why?

Answer 1

population of interest is all students

although more likely it's just full time college students

0% is a statistic as it refers to the sample

a parameter is for the population