Use the following information to answer the next 3 questions.Parents of children with developmental disorders can apply forfederal funding, to help pay for psychosocial rehabilitation. Asociologist working for the annual Current Population Survey wantsto know the percentage of applicants for this funding who are inpoverty. She needs a sample of applicants from across the U.S., soshe groups all of the applications by state and randomly selectsapplicants from each state. She calculates the percentage ofapplicants in her sample that are in poverty. Is this percentage aparameter or a statistic, and why?