Q. 75 The Well-Being Index is a survey... [FREE SOLUTION]

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Introductory Statistics

Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean

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OER 2018 Edition 路 902 pages

ISBN: 9781938168208

Chapter 1: Q. 75 (page 55)

The Well-Being Index is a survey that follows trends of U.S. residents on a regular basis. There are six areas of health and wellness covered in the survey: Life Evaluation, Emotional Health, Physical Health, Healthy Behavior, Work Environment, and Basic Access. Some of the questions used to measure the Index are listed below. Identify the type of data obtained from each question used in this survey: qualitative, quantitative discrete, or quantitative continuous.
a. Do you have any health problems that prevent you from doing any of the things people your age can normally do?
b. During the past 30 days, for about how many days did poor health keep you from doing your usual activities?
c. In the last seven days, on how many days did you exercise for 30 minutes or more?
d. Do you have health insurance coverage?

Short Answer

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(a) The data provided will be qualitative.

(b) The number of days is a quantity entity, the data presented is quantitative discrete.

d) The given data will be qualitative.

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Given information

Given the Well-Being Index survey that follows trends of U.S. residents on a regular basis.

Explanation (part a)

The answer to this question would either be a yes or no, which would imply this response cannot be measured in numbers, hence it s not quantitative data, it is qualitative data.

Explanation (part b)

In this case, the response would be the number of days, since the number of days can be expressed in the numerical form it is considered to be quantitative data and the number of days is always expressed as a whole number it cannot be in decimals, hence it is considered to be a discrete variable. Thus the response for this question is a discrete quantitative data type.

Explanation (part c)

In this case, the response would be the number of days since the number of days can be expressed in the numerical form it is considered to be quantitative data and the number of days is always expressed as whole numbers, it cannot be in decimals, hence it is considered to be a discrete variable. Thus the response for this question is a discrete quantitative data type.

Explanation (part d)

The response to this question would be either a yes or a no, Since it is not measured in numbers, it cannot be considered to be a quantitative data type, hence it is a qualitative data type.