A political scientist wants to know how college students feel about the Social Security system. She obtains a list of the 3456 undergraduates at her college and mails a questionnaire to 250 students selected at random. Only 104 questionnaires are returned. What is the population in this study? Be careful: about what group does she want information?

For this case the population is described as:

All the college students

And the political have a list of 3456 undergraduates at her college for the sampling frame.

The sample would be the 104 students who return the survey.

Is important to notice that since he know the information about her college she can apply inference about the parameter of interest just at her college and not about all the possible students of college.

Step-by-step explanation:

For this case the population is described as:

All the college students

And the political have a list of 3456 undergraduates at her college for the sampling frame.

The sample would be the 104 students who return the survey.

Is important to notice that since he know the information about her college she can apply inference about the parameter of interest just at her college and not about all the possible students of college.

For this case we can also find the non reponse rate since we know that the total of questionnaires are 250 and she got back just 104 answered

So we have a non response rate of 58.4 %