Surveys are conducted to collect data for companies and corporations. This data can then be analyzed to understand how it ranks with the customers that shop in its stores. They are also conducted to help find the pros and cons that shoppers endure while shopping. In fact, Economics & Statistics Administration (2015) stated that “about 3.5 million households are sampled every year for the American Community Survey, and it takes respondents a total of about 2.4 million hours per year to answer the survey” (para. 2). What information might a survey collect? A good place to start is understanding the consumer’s attitude towards his or her shopping experience. Another expansion on this could be the age of the consumer …show more content…
In fact, Anderson, Sweeney, Williams, Camm, and Cochrane (2012) stated that “nonexperimental, or observational, statistical studies make no attempt to control the variables of interest. A survey is perhaps the most common type of observational study” (p. 13). This survey also asked the participants if they were male or female and whether or not he or she was married at the time. The major shopping areas in the community of Springdale include the Springdale Mall, West Mall, and the downtown area on Main Street. Do male or females have the same attitude towards the shopping centers? Did the marital status of the respondent have any bearing on the attitude towards the shopping …show more content…
The majority of the respondents were single or not married with 84 total. One interesting fact was, the unmarried shoppers were nearly equally satisfied at the Springfield Mall and Downtown. It would be interesting to know the sort of goods that are sold at these two places to see if they had goods that were catered to singles as in a collage town.
The Margin of Error Table 6 below depicts managements request for the size of sample required to obtain a 95% confidence with a margin of error of 0.05. Jaggia and Kelly (2014) stated that a confidence interval is generally associated with a margin of error that accounts for the variability of the estimator and the desired level of the interval” (p. 245). As the table shows, the sample size will need to be quite large to contain such a large number of the data. Springfield Mall will need to have the largest sample with 2416 followed by the West mall and Downtown, which need 2085 and 2028