12.28 The 2006 Expedia Vacation Deprivation Survey

(Ipsos Insight, May 18, 2006) described the results of a poll of working adults in Canada. Each person in a random sample was classified according to gender and the number of vacation days he or she usually took each year. The resulting data are summarized in the given table.

a. Is it reasonable to conclude that there is an association between gender and the number of vacation days taken?

b. To what population would it be reasonable to generalize this conclusion?

Gender Days of Vacation Male Female None 51 42 1–5 21 25 6–10 67 79 11–15 111 94 16–20 71 70 21–25 82 58 More than 25 118 79