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Census or Survey?

• Target Population
– The population to which we want to generalize our
findings.

Target ?
Population

Female group

Use Census (or) Survey

Census: Gathering information about every individual
in a population
Survey: Selection of a small subset of a population 33

Advantages of survey ?

• Less expensive

• Less time-consuming

• More accurate
• Some samples can lead to statistical inference about
the entire population

that would be prohibitively expensive to study.

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