Edexcel S3 2016 June — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2016
SessionJune
TopicNon-parametric tests

3. A company wants to survey its employees' attitudes to work. The company's workforce is located at three offices. The number of employees at each location is summarised in the table below.
Office locationNumber of employees
Bristol856
Dudley429
Glasgow1215
Each employee is located at only one office. A personnel assistant plans to survey the first 50 employees who arrive for work at the Bristol office on a Monday morning.
  1. Give two reasons why this survey is likely to lead to a biased response. A personnel manager has access to the company's information system that holds details of each employee including their place of work. The manager decides to take a stratified sample of 150 employees.
  2. Describe how to choose employees for this stratified sample.
  3. Explain an advantage of using a stratified sample rather than a quota sample.