Question

Select a journal article that involves a statistical study, and write a paper answering the following questions.

(a) Is the study descriptive or inferential? Explain your answer.

(b) What are the variables used in the study? In your opinion, what level of measurement was used to obtain the data for the variables?

(c) Does the article define the population? If so, how is it defined? If not, how could it be defined?

(d) Does the article state the sample size and how the sample was obtained? If so, determine the size of the sample and explain how it was selected. If not, suggest a way it could have been obtained.

(e)Provide the full reference of the selected journal article in the latest APA style

Answer 1

TO FIND : A> Is study descriptive or inferention .

now

YES , the study is inferential

because

In several Asian countries’ 1/10 child labour.In India the number of children between the ages of 10-14 has crossed above 44 million, in Pakistan, this number is from 8 to 10 million, in Bangladesh 8-12 million, in Brazil 7 million, whereas their number is 12 million in Nigeria. In Pakistan children aged 5-14 are above 40 million; fifty percent of these economically active children are in the age group of 5 to 9 years. Even out of these 3.8 million economically active children, 2.7 million were claimed to be working in the agriculture sector.”

TO FIND :- B> What are the variables used in study.

1.Qualitative

2.Quantitative

we have  the above different variables.

Size and weight. The level of security in my opinion is quite reliable, since the sample is varied and representative

TO FIND ;-C>Does the article define the population.

yes the artile defines about the population as it difines the no. of people below the poverty line, no. of children, rate of unemployment and ratio of poverty and many other things so there fore it defines the population

TO FIND :-D>Does the article define the sample size.

no it is not selected for the sample size

now

sample size can be taken from 47 million people in Pakistan.

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