A study was done to determine the age, number of times per week, and the duration (amount of time) of residents using a local park in San Antonio, Texas. The first house in the neighborhood around the park was selected randomly, and then the resident of every eighth house in the neighborhood around the park was interviewed. The population is _____.

In any statistical research study, data of whole set of people, things or events for which study is being conducted is called population. Since in real world situation, collection data of entire things under consideration cannot be collected hence specific number of data is collected which can give result similar to entire object for which study is being conducted. Hence population of sample is collected for study.

one of the important feature of population in statistic is that it exhibit the attributes of entire object under study.

In the given study , age, duration and frequency of park visitor was to be determined and hence data from park neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas.

Hence here population of study can be defined as the houses in the neighborhood of the park in San Antonio, Texas