The ministry of health in the canadian province of ontario wants toknow whether

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The ministry of health in the canadian province of ontario wants toknow whether the national health care system is achieving its goalsin the province. Much information about health care comesfrom the patient records, but that source doesnt allow us tocompare people who use health services with those who dont. So theministry of health conducted the ontario health survey, whichinterviwed a random sample of 61,239 people who live inontario.

(a) what is the population for this survery? what is thesample?
(b) the survey found that 76% of males and 86% of females in thesample had visted a gerneral practitioner at least once in the pastyear. Do you think these estimates are close to the truth about theemtire population? Why???

Explanation / Answer

The population is the entire amount of people that live in Ontario. The sample is 61,239 people. Yes because the sample size is large and if the sample size is large based on central limit theorum we can generalize this statement to the population.

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