In 2010, the General Social Survey asked respondents if they agreed/disagreed with the statement, "Private Enterprise will solve
all of the US problems." Based on the results of this year, it is possible to conclude that about 2.89 to 6.28 percent of all Americans, strongly disagreed with the statement that private enterprise will solve all of the US problems(with pretty good confidence). What part of the field of statistics is this
The statement makes conclusions about the proportion of citizens of the United States of America with respect to a particular opinion. These conclusions or inferences are obtained from the statistical analysis of a sample of said citizens, assuming a probabilistic distribution for the variable of interest (proportion). This type of analysis is part of the interval estimation theme that is part of the statistical inference or mathematical statistics.
