120MP Tutorial Question Sheet Week 5

DATA COLLECTION

1) Identify the types (ie nominal, ordinal, discrete or continuous) of the following variables
recorded by an estate agent:

a) House type detached, semi, etc.

b) Bedrooms 1, 2, etc.
c) Garage(s) none, single, double
d) Garden length (in metres)
e) Price sale price (£)
f) Band council tax band (A, B, C, etc)

2) You are collecting data regarding local restaurants.

Give an example of a
a) nominal
b) ordinal
c) discrete
d) continuous
variable that might be included.

3) The UK Star Trek Society has 8000 members, of which 6000 are male and 2000 female.
You have been asked by the committee to conduct a survey of 100 members to find out
their views on merchandising.
For each of the following sampling methods, describe in detail how you would carry out
the survey and any advantages/disadvantages.
a) simple random
b) systematic
c) cluster
d) gender stratified random

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120MP Tutorial Question Sheet Week 5

TABLES
1. 400 post graduate students were asked where their last takeaway was from and
whether they owned a car. The data are summarised in the table below:

PostGrad Student Car Ownership and Takeaway Choice

Frequency Car Owner
No Yes Total
Burger King 12 43 55
Last KFC 23 34 57
Purchased McDonalds 89 142 231
Pizza Hut 3 7 10
Other 19 28 47
Total 146 254 400

The conclusion was “Most McDonalds users own a car”

Criticise the usefulness of the above statement

Produce percentage tables and hence state some informative comparisons

2. 380 people from the Midlands were asked their favourite ice cream flavour.
The data are summarised in the table below:

Favourite Ice Cream Flavours in The Midlands

Frequency Favourite Ice cream
Vanilla Strawberry Chocolate Other None
Warwickshire 10 15 20 13 11
Leicestershire 15 14 30 9 28
County
Worcestershire 20 25 11 20 17
Northamptonshire 33 14 42 11 22

Produce percentage tables and draw some useful conclusions

3. Collect some data from your classmates regarding two variables and collate the figures
in a 2 way table. Then draw conclusions.