Eckart,+C

My question: Is there a relationship between the obesity rates and the amount of people with diabetes.

Hypothesis: there will be a moderate correlation between these two variables, due to the increasing obesity rates from the ever growing fast food restaurants and the fact that people that are over weight can get type two diabetes.

Why I choose this question: I decided to use this data for my project because it was readily available and to show the importance of these two things for our population.

Sampling Bias: Some sampling bias could come from the data being skewed do to changes in population size, not having all the years of data for both variables. but it's clear over the years what pattern emerges.

** BIBLIOGRAPHY ** http://cansim2.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-win/cnsmcgi.pgm- percentage of obese population in 1994 in Canada. http://cansim2.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-win/cnsmcgi.pgm- percentage of obese population in 2008 in Canada. http://cansim2.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-win/cnsmcgi.pgm- percentage of increased obesity rates from 1994-2009 in Canada. http://cansim2.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-win/cnsmcgi.pgm- percentage of diabetes internationally in 2005. http://cansim2.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-win/cnsmcgi.pgm- percentage of people with diabetes Canada, 1994.

Data total percentage and population of Canada with diabetes 1994 3%/ 722,491 total percentage and population of Canada with diabetes 1996 3.2%/ 787,924 total percentage and population of Canada with diabetes 1998 3.5%/ 865,908 total percentage and population of Canada with diabetes 2000 4.1%/ 1,063,698 total percentage and population of Canada with diabetes 2003 4.6%/ 1,222,882 total percentage and population of Canada with diabetes 2005 4.9%/ 1,325,120

obesity rate increase from 1994-2009 33.9%/ 4,805,982

total obesity percentage and population for Canada in 1994 12.7%/ 2,687,691 total obesity percentage and population for Canada in 1996 11.9%/ 2,627,678 total obesity percentage and population for Canada in 1998 14.1%/ 3,169,219 total obesity percentage and population for Canada in 2000 14.5%/ 3,353,633 total obesity percentage and population for Canada in 2003 14.9%/ 3,547,995 total obesity percentage and population for Canada in 2005 15.5%/ 3,764,664 total obesity percentage and population for Canada in 2007 16%/ 4,016,735

Conclusion: As you can see from the data there was a correlation between these two variables. The factors I stated in my hypothesis may be the cause, but my independent variable wasn’t completely independent, because even people that aren’t obese can get diabetes, but the larger portion of people who do are over weight and I think that’s what gives these two variables their correlation