Question

In 2010, the general social survey had a question which asked respondents if they were willing to pay higher prices to help the environment. in 2010, out of 1361 people that responded, 8.2% said that they were very willing and 14.6% said that they were not at all willing. what part of the field of statistics is this?

Answer 1

Answer: Both ‘8.2%’ and ’14.6%’ are descriptive statistics.

Descriptive statistics summarize and describe the features of the data in a study or survey numerically.

In this question, the information just tells us the percentage of people who had a particular opinion for a given question. Hence these percentages describe the data.