By: DEEP PATEL MDM4U1 Culminating Project

TABLE OF CONTENTS
The project title Introduction Research methodology and techniques The main Problem or challenge! (Question) The predicted outcomes Individual GDP of United States Individual GDP of Canada Putting it together (Comparing both nations GDP) Comparing GDP by province Conclusions Credits!

RICH IN PAST OR RICH IN FUTURE!

Culminating project: Comparing United States and Canadas GDP

INTRODUCTION
This culminating project will include the study of comparison between 2 nations GDP (United States Of America and Canada. Studying factor that affect the GDP of this 2 nations You will be seeing that how if the GDP of one country drops another countrys GDP will have an affect of that change In order to get accurate results, research had to be done with considering provinces PPP (Purchasing power parity) for both nations.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES

Starting with coming up with a question and hypothesis statement, made the process of research more organized First task to accomplish was to decide for a scope and limitations of this research Continuing on with the research I had to decide for the variables of the research such as factors that affect each nations GDP Next step comes to data collection, I did my most of the data collection from the internet on statistics Canada and Bureau of economic analysis department of commerce US. In which, other many websites helped me.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES (Contd) In addition, after data collection I had to analyze the data and eliminate any irrelevant data to this research. When analyzing the data I had to plot (graph) them to see the different outcomes and possibilities. Using Fathom I partially plot my data, moreover I added excel to plot some data and regressions in the graph. Finding measures of central tendency and measures of spread was completely done in excel except finding of correlation of coefficient was found in Fathom.

PREDICTED OUTCOMES (HYPOTHESIS)

Strongest Hypothesis statement: Canadas GDP is directly proportional to USAs GDP

INDIVIDUAL GDP OF UNITED STATES

When examining the graph shown it is clearly shown that the GDP for United States is pretty much increasing in straight line. Making this even stronger the r2 value is also pretty close to one which explains the GDP of United States is growing is linear gradual change. Line of best fit is shown in the graph which also explains the reason of r2 value to be so close to 1.
GDP of The United States of America 13000 12000
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1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 Years GDPannualyinbillionsofdollars = 398.99Years - 788200; r^2 = 0.99

INDIVIDUAL GDP OF CANADA

When examining this graph there is a big drop in the data during and around the year of 1990 because of recession year. R2 value is close to 1 but not as close as the previous graph where the value was 0.99 and here the value is 0.95 because of the data drop in the graph in 1999.
GDP of Canada 1100000 1050000
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1996 2000 Year GDPinmillionsofdollars = 22690Year - 44456000; r^2 = 0.95

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COMPARING TWO NATIONS GDP TOGETHER

Comparing GDP
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United States GDP Canada GDP Expon. (Canada GDP) Expon. (United States GDP) y = 5898.8e0.0276x R2 = 0.969

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y = 4118.5e0.053x R2 = 0.9974

COMPARING TWO NATIONS GDP TOGETHER

Examining the graph on the previous slide shows the relationship between Canadas GDP and United States GDP Starting off with the data in year 1985 Canada has higher GDP then America. But because of recession years in Canada in 1990. The closest regression that matches both graph is exponential function When looking at this graph, there is a point where United States and Canada had the exact same GDP and after that GDP of both nation changed and America had higher GDP after that. After mid 1998.

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Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick New Foundland Northwest Territories
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Nova Scotia Nunavut Ontario

Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon Territories

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COMPARING 2 NATIONS GDP BY PROVINCE

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COMPARING 2 NATIONS GDP BY PROVINCE

Looking at the graphs in previous slide also explains the reason of high GDP in United States. The trend is not very linear, meaning that the graphs dots are not uniform or close to uniform. Unlikely in Canadas provincial PPP or provincial GDP the graph is almost in one range only a few such as Ontario, Quebec and Alberta are not uniform with having high GDP. This graphs are based on year 1999 which is just the year after both nations GDP was same.

CONCLUSION
Finally we can make conclusions from this research that some factor that affect Canadas GDP also affect United States and the factors which affect United States affects Canadas GDP. Stating that my hypothesis is correct, Canadas GDP and United States GDP is directly proportional to each other. Coming to an end, as the title suggests, Rich in future or Rich in past, talking about Canada, it was rich in past but that place has taken over by United States as of 1998!

THE ENDphew!