Analysis: Breakfast Survey Class Population Grade 6: 70% of grade six students out of a sample size of 30 eat breakfast everyday during a school week. 16.6% eat every three to four days, 10% eat one to two days, and 3.3% never eat. On a typical day, 60% of students that do eat tend to pick cereal as their choice of nourishment of the day, which is the most from all the grades. Cereal has a reputation for being low in protein, jam packed with sugar, and overall simply lacking in nutritional value due to the extrusion process that it is put into when making the actual product. Needless to say, the inexpensive meal is something that children, especially those that are growing up, should not start off their day with. The same goes for the 20% …show more content…
15.6% eat every three to four days, 7.7% eat one to two days, and 31.5% never eat at all. If given the option, 36.8% of the sample would choose to eat cereal (which is the least amount from all the grades), 21% would eat bread/roti, 10.5% would eat a quick snack, 10.5% would also eat eggs, and 21% would drink a smoothie. Overall, this grade had the best eating habits, but not the most frequent eaters. A common trend noticed was that amount of daily eaters decreased as the age increased. Additionally, there are more people that never eat at all from the older grades. On the plus side, the value of what was eaten increased. There are substantially less people eating unhealthy options and more people eating the nutritional ones in grades 7 and 9. Although if you were to look at the grand scheme of things, you would notice that in general not many individuals circled the healthy options. Random Sampling (10): After looking at the data, we realized that the information we recorded from the random sampling was the exact opposite of what we got for the class samples. In the random sampling, the grade six column had the best/healthiest result, followed closely by grade eight, and then grade seven and nine (tie). Some factors that could have manipulate the end result would be the amounts of students in each category (ex. Grade six vs. Grade 9) since there was a drastic difference between both. As well, the amount of people we surveyed was actually too little for us to gain valid information from. Random Sampling