1.14 Attending college in your state or in another state. The U.S. Census Bureau collects a large amount of information concerning higher education.1 For example, the bureau provides a table that includes the following variables: state, number of students from the state who attend college, number of students who attend college in their home state.

  1. (a) What are the cases for this set of data?

  2. (b) Is there a label variable? If yes, what is it?

  3. (c) Identify each variable as categorical or quantitative.

  4. (d) Explain how you might use each of the quantitative variables to explain something about the states.

  5. (e) Consider a variable computed as the number of students in each state who attend college in the state divided by the total number of students from the state who attend college. Explain how you would use this variable to explain something about the states.