Assignment
The health care system in Ontario. The Ministry of Health in the Canadian province of Ontario wants to know whether the national health care system is achieving its goals in the province. The ministry conducted the Ontario Health Survey, which interviewed a probability sample of 61,239 adults who live in Ontario.45
(a) What is the population for this sample survey? What is the sample?
(b) The survey found that 76% of males and 86% of females in the sample had visited a general practitioner at least once in the past year. Do you think these estimates are close to the truth about the entire population? Why?
LPThe remaining exercises demonstrate the idea of a sampling distribution. Sampling distributions are the basis for statistical inference. We strongly recommend doing some of these exercises.
Percentage points for Hispanics. Sample sizes for most Hispanic nationalities, like Cubans or Dominicans, were too small to break out the results separately.44
(a) Why is the "margin of sampling error" larger for Hispanics than for all 3092 respondents?
(b) Why would a very small sample size prevent a responsible news organization from breaking out results for Cubans?
The response should include a reference list. Double-space, using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.