Textbook Problem

The Hawaii Visitors Bureau collects data on visitors to Hawaii. The following questions were among 16 asked in a questionnaire handed out to passengers during incoming airline flights.

• This trip to Hawaii is my: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.
• The primary reason for this trip is: (10 categories, including vacation, convention, honeymoon)
• Where I plan to stay: (11 categories, including hotel, apartment, relatives, camping)
• Total days in Hawaii

1. a. What is the population being studied?
2. b. Is the use of a questionnaire a good way to reach the population of passengers on incoming airline flights?
3. c. Comment on each of the four questions in terms of whether it will provide categorical or quantitative data.