Question

You are a senior analyst in the marketing research department of a major steel producer. You have been requested to make a forecast of domestic automobile production for the forthcoming calendar year in order to predict the total tonnage of steel that will be used by the automobile manufacturers. This is PRIMARILY a(n):____________

Answer 1

descriptive study.

Step-by-step explanation:

• Descriptive study is designed to explain the distribution of one or more variables in relation to any cause or other hypothesis.
• Descriptive studies can be of many types, such as case reports, case series, cross-sectional studies and ecological studies. In the first three of these, data is collected on individuals, the last using data collected for the group.
• Descriptive research is used to describe the characteristics of the study of a population or event.