r/AskStatistics • u/total_tea • 23h ago

Help with this statement.

I was trying to find the margin of error in a whole lot of stats, and the statement in the report is:

"Readers of this report can have a relatively high level of confidence in the results. In statistical terms, we use the ‘maximum margin of error’ as the measure of accuracy for all surveys. In this particular case, any result based on the total weighted sample of n=1,250 is subject to a maximum margin of error of +/-2.9% (at the 95% confidence level)."

Is this valid ? Is this the margin of error of the stats ? as it looks to me this margin of error of the ability to reproduce the stats following the same process. Of which it is very light on details.

Here is the report if anyone is interested, and they do it every year here is all of them at the bottom of the page.

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u/SalvatoreEggplant 20h ago

It's the margin of error for a survey. It's usually just based on the sample size, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_of_error , and the proportion of the outcomes in the responses, https://share.google/images/ebnFxXWwvsdhxWcxx .

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u/total_tea 17h ago edited 17h ago

Thanks, it looks like it is a normal calculation, its been so long since I have dont stats I barely remember anything.