Question

The Ipsos Canada Voter Intention Survey of October 2-4, 2015, is one in a series of surveys held during the 2015 electoral campaign that queried respondents on their voting preferences and support for parties and candidates during the election. An online survey tool was used to examine Respondents’ voting intentions, their feelings toward the major political parties and their leaders, and their opinions on issues that would most affect the campaign and the election. Respondents in this wave were specifically asked their feelings toward various forms of coalition government. This survey has a sample of 1441 respondents. (2015-10-05)

There are three files associated with this dataset:

• can-vote-intent-wv555.MPJ, the data file in Minitab format
• can-vote-intent-wv555-dic.doc, the data dictionary
• can-vote-intent-wv555-que.doc, the survey questionnaire [optional]

Answer the following questions:

1. What are the individuals in this dataset?

2. What is the population for this data?

3. How many variables are in this dataset?

4. For each of the following variables, identify the type of variable. If it is a categorical variable, be more specific than simply “categorical”.
   • gta1
   • turnout4
   • rv1a
   • new3_2
   • socialh

Answer 1