The Universal Pulp Company Has a Plant in Portland, Oregon

Multiple Choice

The Universal Pulp Company has a plant in Portland, Oregon. Management wants to determine the average number of sick days taken per worker in this plant in 2012. To do this, the management gathers records on all the workers in the plant and averages the number of sick days taken in 2012 by each worker. This process is using ___.

A) categorical data
B) quantitative data
C) descriptive statistics
D) inferential statistics
E) a census