Question

Suppose a researcher wishes to conduct a health survey in order to estimate the average number of cigarettes smoked per day by individuals living in the city of Toronto. Suppose that she uses a map of the city that shows each city block in detail. She plans to take a random sample of city blocks and then measures number of cigarettes smoked per day by individuals living in the sampled blocks.

What is the target population?

All individuals who smoke a cigarette per day

Individuals who live in Toronto

All individuals who live in city of Toronto

Map of city of Toronto

All individuals who live in the sampled city blocks

Answer 1

A researcher wishes to conduct a health survey in order to estimate the average number of cigarettes smoked per day by individuals living in the city of Toronto.

A map of the city shows all the blocks of the city.

She samples a few city blocks from the map, and then estimates the average number of cigarettes smoked per day by individuals living in these city blocks.

Now, as she wants to find out the average number of cigarettes smoked per day by individuals living in the entire city, so her target population is

option (B) Individuals who live in Toronto.