Question

2. Four political parties nominated candidates to contest the local by-election. In order to assess their relative popularity, a journalist conducted a telephone survey of 40 residents, asking them to identify the party for which they intended to vote. The responses were as follows: D H Z H Z M M D DH M Z Z H M Z H D Ζ Η H Z M M D H M HD Z Ζ Η Ζ H Ζ Η H D H M 1 I a) What level of measurement has been employed here? b) Construct a frequency distribution table for this data. c) Construct a frequency bar chart for the data. d) Interpret the distribution of scores.

Answer 1

a. The measurements has four levels as:

"D" "H" "M" "Z"

b. The frequency table is given by

labels	frequency
D	7
H	14
M	8
Z	11

c. The frequency bar chart is ploted by using frequency table as

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 D I M Z

d. The score is higher for party H and lower for party D.