Question

Aiming to boost the economy within rural areas of Ontario, the Government of Ontario invested on a new initiative named Canada Rural Partnership (CRP). Two consultancies won the bid to undertake this project: Innovation Pursuit (IP) and North Consultancy (NC).

IP supported far northern communities and NC supported rural areas. IP and NC’s goal were to:

• Initiate collaboration between rural communities and stakeholders to address barriers and challenges to local development
• Prepare information and tools used by rural communities and regions to develop local amenities and other assets
• Initiate new economic activities in rural Canada

During four years they provided advice to 653 clients. At this point of time the government of Ontario is evaluating CRP’s effectiveness based on a sample of 150 (75 IP clients and 75 NC Clients). The sampled clients were asked to indicate their level of satisfaction with CRP on the following basis:

• Usefulness of the following services provided (on the basis of a continuous number that ranges from 1 (extremely ineffective) to 5 (extremely effective))
  • one to one consultation,
  • workshops
  • information packages
  • Funding.
• Client satisfaction with the government after receiving support from CRP on the basis of a continuous number that ranges from 1 (extremely unsatisfied) to 5 (extremely satisfied))
• Client satisfaction of IP and NC (as an indicator of performance) on the basis of a continuous number that ranges from 1 (extremely unsatisfied) to 5 (extremely satisfied)

* Assume the collected data has normal distribution

1. Question 1: Conduct a descriptive analysis of the sample focusing on usefulness of service provided by focusing on measures of central location and variance for two different variables, also use a graph to describe usefulness of one to one consultation
2. Question 2: Is there any relationship between usefulness of funding received and client satisfaction of government after receiving consultation, use a graph to depict this relationship and also conduct correlation analysis (10%).

Analysis: For each question propose hypothesis, justify the selected method of analysis, discuss test requirements and present the test results in tables.

- For each question discuss the findings of the study, what do they mean? how can they help in decision making?

Please use below link for data set only - data set is same but couldn't post it on Chegg due to space limit -

https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/questions-and-answers/four-years-provided-advice-653-clients-point-time-government-ontario-evaluating-crp-s-effe-q11681507

Answer 1