You are interested in examining which collective factors may predict political engagement and which factors have the strongest effect on political engagement (measured on an index score of 0-10, 10 indicating strong political engagement). You draw a random and representative sample of 1,600 current undergraduate students attending PA state universities and ask each respondent: (1) their self-identified gender; (2) their self-identified race/ethnicity; (3) their major; and (4) how often they vote (never, sometimes, almost all the time, all the time). You also calculate for each respondent their political engagement score and go on to conduct the appropriate statistical analysis.

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What is the population?

Is it an inferential or descriptive statistic?

What are the variable(s) involved?

What are the level(s) of measurement?

What are the independent and dependent variable(s)? (if any)

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