Q1 Suppose you are designing a questionnaire to gauge the spending of overseas visitors who attended the Rugby world

cup (how much spending, type, and location). (a) Describe the population for this study. The population for this study will be those people who came abroad for the Rugby World Cup. These are tourists, fans and people who want to socialize during an important sporting event. (b) Suggest how you might take a sample from this population, and any potential shortcomings of your sampling method. Sampling method will rely on the money spent during the Rugby world cup. Questions about expenses will cover the information on preferred houses, restaurants and souvenir shops, etc. Basing on the result of this survey, it will be possible to offer more attractive offers for the foreign guests and thus make more profit during the next world cup. (c) Develop two appropriate categorical questions to include in the survey, one giving nominal data and one giving ordinal data. 1. (Nominal)What is the reason of your visit here? 2. (Ordinal)How many times have you visited the country? (d) Develop two appropriate numerical questions to include in the survey, one giving discrete data and one giving continuous data. 1. (Discrete)What is the maximum price that you can pay for accommodation? 2. (Continuous) How many are you eager to spend during your visit here? (a) Construct % frequency distribution for the listing prices, and use it to complete the table below. Frequency Table for House Price (in thousands ofNZD) Price Midpoint % Freq 350< x < 500 431 19.78% 500 < x < 650 584 37.36% 650 < x < 800 695 34.06% 800< x < 950 858 4.4% 950 <x< 1100 0 0% 1100 <x< 1250 1200 1,1% 1250<x< 1400 1495 1,1% 1400 <x< 1550 1525 1,1% 1550 <x< 1700 0 0% 1700 <x< 1850 0 0% 1850 <x <2000 2000 1,1% Total matching houses: 91 (actual number is 108, but 17 houses cost less than the minimum set price) (b) Construct in Excel a histogram illustrating the frequency distribution, and insert into your assignment. Comment on what it shows.

45.00% 40.00% 35.00% 30.00% 25.00% 20.00% 15.00% 10.00% 5.00% 0.00% -5.00% 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500

This chart shows that houses of the price below 1000 are the most popular, so it is clear that they will bring more profit during further events than houses which are more expensive that 1000. (c) Calculate summary statistics for the data and use them to complete the table below: Statistic Mean Median 1st quartile 3rd quartile Price Summary 646 639 525 687.5

Interquartile range 162.5 Range 1650

Standard deviation 235.83

(d) Name 2 ways in which the statistics in (c) reflect the major attributes of the price distribution you mentioned in (b). First of all, the statistics shows the mean price which is paid by the visitors for the houses. Also, the statistics shows the average number of difference between the prices for houses. (a) For each year, give the percentage of visitors of each type. Note that this is not anexhaustive list of reasons for visiting, so the percentages in each column will notadd to 100%. Purpose Business Holiday VFR 1999 2004 2009

11,92% 10,66% 9,45% 51,01% 51,00% 48,43% 25,63% 28,27% 32,19%

(b) Draw a side-by-side barchart of the three visitor type proportions over the three years. Comment on what it shows.
60 50 40 Business 30 20 10 0 1999 2004 2009 Holiday VFR

(c) What important feature of the raw data is missing from the analysis in (a) and (b)? This data misses the information of others visitors that came to the country. This information could be useful in order to create more precise report on the real quantity of people visiting the country and their real purpose of their visits. Basing on this information, it is possible to offer the most essential things for tourists. (a) Create a boxplot that compares the listing prices for 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom houses in the Auckland North Shore and Palmerston North/Manawatu areas. Summarize the differences.
600 500 400 300 Price 200 100 0 Northcross Palmerston North

As we can see in the chart, houses of the given type in Palmerstone Beach cost half less than in the Northcross area. It means that houses located at Palmerstone area are of great popularity and bring more profit, so it is necessary to build more houses in that area. (b) Also included is the suburb for each listing. Suggest why one might want to consolidate some suburbs when making a pie chart or bar chart that shows what percentage of listings originates in each suburb. I believe that the reasons for such decision is proximity of these areas and if they are located too close to each other, then it is possible to unite them into one basis. (c) Would it be a good idea to aggregate suburbs based on their name? (Eg, Torbay and Takapuna since they both start with T)? Explain. Suggest a basis for a more sensible scheme. No, it is a bad idea. The same letter at the beginning of the name of areas is not a reasonable evidence for aggregating, as it gives no essential information. It would be better to aggregate the areas according to prices starting with the cheapest.