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know how it can be at times when scheduling classes. For this, I want to know how satised are
Purdue students with the current class availability. This will be answered by taking a survey of
Purdue students. The survey ranges on a scale from 1 to 5. The scale is listed below in Table 1.
I will also be looking at the overall demographics of the sample and most importantly, the major.

Table 1: Satisfaction Scale

The population for this sample will consist of Purdue students that were enrolled in 2013.
The data for this population was obtained from the Ofce of Institutional Research for
Assessment and Effectiveness at Purdue University using the publicly available Data Digest. In
this population, I have found important data related
to each students course studies as well as general
demographic information. This course information
includes whether they are enrolled as
undergraduate, graduate, or professionals; whether
part time or full time; which college/school they
belong to and various other metrics. Within each of
the student levels of undergraduate, graduate, and
professional, the data also provides which degree
the student is seeking or which classication (if undergraduate) the student is enrolled for. In
Figure 1 you can see the breakdown of enrollment by student level. This breakdown shows that
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21.67%
Professional
2.43%
Undergraduate
75.90%
Figure 1: Breakdown of enrollment by
student level
nearly 22% of the population is graduate students while only about 2.5% are professional
students. The remaining 75.9% of students translates to 29,440 undergraduate students out of
the total 38,788 students enrolled in 2013. Out of these 38,788 students, 90.78% of the
students are considered full-time students. When looking at the full-time student population in
Figure 2, it is apparent that the undergraduates alone are more than all of the full-time and part-
time professional and graduate students combined.
To take the actual sample I will create a two-stage sample based on college/school that
the students are enrolled and their level. This is chosen as the stratication because based on
being a current student and haven taken classes at every level except for professional, I think
this will make a difference in how satisfaction is rated. Some colleges only have classes where
there is one section of one class whereas others may have 10 sections of a class at many
different times. Out of the population of 38,788 students, 2,000 students will be sampled. Table
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Figure 2: Enrollment status of students
2 below shows the breakdown of the allocation of the population into the sample. Proportional
allocation was used to allocation the population into the 2,000 student sample. Using
proportional allocation will allow for a sample of every single strata whereas a regular SRS
would not guarantee this since it is completely random.

Strata Population Size Proportion Allocation Sample Size
Undergraduate:
College of Agriculture
2,704 0.06971 139
Undergraduate:
College of Education
590 0.01521 30
Undergraduate:
College of Engineering
7,463 0.1924 385
Undergraduate:
College of Health and
Human Sciences
4,161 0.10728 215
Undergraduate:
College of Liberal Arts
3,243 0.08361 167
Undergraduate:
College of Pharmacy
641 0.01653 33
Undergraduate:
College of Science
3,318 0.08554 171
Undergraduate:
College of Technology
3,155 0.08134 163
Undergraduate:
College of Veterinary
Medicine
280 0.00722 14
Undergraduate:
Exploratory Studies
1,150 0.02965 59
Undergraduate:
Krannert School of
Management
2,511 0.06474 129
Undergraduate:
Temporary
224 0.00577 12
Professional: College of
Pharmacy
627 0.01616 32
Professional: College of
Veterinary Medicine
314 0.0081 16
Graduate: College of
Agriculture
591 0.01524 30
Graduate: College of
Education
535 0.01379 28
Graduate: College of
Engineering
3,016 0.07776 156
Graduate: College of
Health and Human
Sciences
519 0.01338 27
(Table continued on next page)
Table 2: Allocation of sample after stratication

As time and resources will be limited for this, the easiest and most cost effective method
for collecting data for this is using Qualtrics. It will be free to create a Qualtrics survey since
Purdue University already pays a fee to the company and makes this service available to all
Purdue students and faculty that have a career account. In a normal situation using Qualtrics, it
would cost to have Qualtrics select a pool of people for your sample and have them sample
those people for you. In this scenario, this will not be used since the sample is assumed to be
known as it is Purdue University Record. Being Purdue University Record, the survey could be
created and the list could be retrieved or the survey sent to the party whom has access to the
list. This doesnt seem like an unreasonable scenario as I myself have received various emails
in the past to take a survey for some sort of student research interest. This being said, using
Qualtrics and utilizing University resources, this method will not require any monetary costs.
Graduate: College of
Liberal Arts
772 0.0199 40
Graduate: College of
Pharmacy
123 0.00317 6
Graduate: College of
Science
1,121 0.0289 58
Graduate: College of
Technology
485 0.0125 25
Graduate: College of
Veterinary Medicine
95 0.00245 5
Graduate:
Interdisciplinary and
Special Programs
381 0.00982 20
Graduate: Krannert
School of Management
769 0.01983 40
Total 38,788 1 2000
Strata Population Size Proportion Allocation Sample Size