Question

Problem 3) A committee on community relations in Las Cruces, a typical college town, plans to survey local businesses about the importance of students as customers. From the printed Yellow Pages Phone Directory, the committee chooses 150 businesses at random. Of these 73 return the questionnaire mailed by the committee.

a) Describe the population in this survey (not a general definition of a population)

b) Describe the sample in this survey (not a general definition of a sample)

c) What is the response rate?

d) Is this survey an observational study or an experiment?

e) This sample might suffer from undercoverage. Why could undercoverage could be a problem here? (Note that undercoverage is not the same thing as non response.)

Answer 1