Census and Samples - Advantages and disadvantages table in A Level and IB Mathematics

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Created on: 26-03-19 19:30

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Advantages

Census: should give a completely accurate result.
Sample: less time consuming and expensive than a census, fewer people have to respond, less data to process than in a census.

Disadvantages

Census: time consuming, expensive, cannot be used when the testing process destroys the item, hard to process large quantity of data.
Sample: data may not be accurate, sample may not be large enough to give information about the small sub-groups of the population

Evaluation

A census observes or measures every member of a population. A sample is a selection of observations taken from a subset of the population which is used to find out information about the population as a whole.

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