An April 2012 Gallup Poll of low-income moms showed that 54% of stay-at-home moms experienced stress, and
Question:
An April 2012 Gallup Poll of low-income moms showed that 54% of stay-at-home moms experienced stress, and 49% of employed moms experienced stress. All respondents had an annual household income of less than $36,000.
a. Can we conclude, on the basis of these two percentages alone, that in the United States, a greater percentage of stay-at-home moms than of employed moms experienced stress? Explain.
b. Assume that the sampling was done with 1000 stay-at-home moms and 1000 working moms. Report the numbers you would need to enter into StatCrunch as shown in the figure. Let sample 1 be the stay-at-home moms.
c. Check that the conditions for using the two-proportion confidence interval hold. Note that polls such as Gallup do not ask poll questions of related people. For example, they do not ask questions of both husbands and wives.
d. Find a 95% confidence interval for the difference in proportions (stay-at-home minus working), and interpret the interval.
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Introductory Statistics Exploring The World Through Data
ISBN: 9780321978271
2nd Edition
Authors: Robert Gould, Colleen Ryan