Question

The Department of Education wishes to estimate the proportion of all college students who have a job off-campus. It surveyed 1600 randomly selected students, 451 had such jobs. The population of interest to the Department of education is: 1. All 1600 students surveyed 2. All college students o some of college students who have off-campus jobs 3. All college students who have off-campus jobs 4. The 451 students in the survey who had off-campus jobs

Answer 1

Answer:  2. All college students

Step-by-step explanation:

A population is a large group of individuals that have some common feature by the researcher's point of interest.

Herero , the Department of Education wishes to estimate the proportion of all college students who have a job off-campus.

So , he need data of all students to compute the exact proportion.

But instead of that he surveyed 1600 randomly selected students which determine the sample.

Sample just gives the estimate of the parameter.

Hence, the population of interest to the Department of education is " All college students" .