Access to education in rural Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa, has the lowest adult literacy rate in the world (25.3%). Over the past 15 years, the government has focused heavily on improving access to education across the country. Between 2008 and 2015, the primary school completion rate rose from 40% to 60%, and the high school completion rate doubled over the same period from 15% to 30%. Despite these encouraging statistics, children in rural areas, especially girls, continue to have limited access to quality education. Suppose you were sent to Burkina Faso as part of a team of summer interns to conduct fieldwork in a rural community to gather data on education. You put together a survey to distribute in homes a.What is the level of measurement of the following variables? Explain i) Age at last birthday: _____________________ ii)Distance from school: _____________________ iii)Level of education (Primary, Secondary, Post-Secondary): _____________________
Access to education in rural Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa, has the lowest adult literacy rate in the world (25.3%). Over the past 15 years, the government has focused heavily on improving access to education across the country. Between 2008 and 2015, the primary school completion rate rose from 40% to 60%, and the high school completion rate doubled over the same period from 15% to 30%. Despite these encouraging statistics, children in rural areas, especially girls, continue to have limited access to quality education. Suppose you were sent to Burkina Faso as part of a team of summer interns to conduct fieldwork in a rural community to gather data on education. You put together a survey to distribute in homes
a.What is the level of measurement of the following variables? Explain
i) Age at last birthday: _____________________
ii)Distance from school: _____________________
iii)Level of education (Primary, Secondary, Post-Secondary): _____________________
b. One of the members of your research team wanted to represent the variable level of education using a histogram. Explain to her why this is an appropriate or an inappropriate way to describe this variable. If inappropriate, suggest a more appropriate way to represent this information
c. What is the population of interest in this study?
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