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 and, for this forecast, to make a forecast of the total tonnage of steel that will be used by the automobile manufacturers. This is primarily a(n)

descriptive study.

Explanation:A descriptive study is one that is designed to describe the distribution of one or more variables, without regard to any causal or other hypothesis.

Descriptive studies can be of several types, namely, case reports, case series, cross-sectional studies, and ecological studies. In the first three of these, data are collected on individuals, whereas the last one uses aggregated data for groups.

Descriptive research is used to describe characteristics of a population or phenomenon being studied.

answer; independent variable;