POPULATION VS

TRANSPORTATION REVENUES

Kendall KlimekData Culminating

Mr. Rancourt

Introduction

Topic: Population vs Transportation Revenues

Purpose: Researching the correlation between population in Canada and revenues made by transportation companies from 1995-2000

Introduction

Question: With population steadily rising in all provinces and territories, will revenues in the transportation sector rise also?

Hypothesis: With the increasing population in Canada, citizens will turn to more public modes of transportation, in turn raising revenues for transport.

The Variables Independent Variable: population Dependent Variable: revenues pulled in by the

transportation sector

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 200128,500,000

29,000,000

29,500,000

30,000,000

30,500,000

31,000,000

Population

Population

Linear (Population)

1994 1996 1998 2000 20020.00

500.00

1,000.00

1,500.00

2,000.00

2,500.00

3,000.00

3,500.00

4,000.00

4,500.00

Revenue

Revenue

Linear (Revenue)

The Results

Results Continued...

Results Continued...

Therefore... Since the correlation coefficient equalled

(.95) we can now say that population and transportation revenues positively correlate, with a strong correlation coefficient. Therefore, I must accept my hypothesis.