Populations definitions

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Everything or everybody that could possibly be involved in an investigation
population
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Gathers data from the whole population
census
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Gathers data from some of the population
sample
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Should contain all the the characteristics of the population to avoid bias
representative sample
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The people or items that are to be sampled
sampling units
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A list of all the members of the population from which the sample will be taken
sampling frame
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A small sample that is analysed first before any large- scale samples
pilot survey
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a pilot where questions for a questionnaire are usually tried out
pre-test
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Gathers data from the whole population

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census

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Gathers data from some of the population

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Should contain all the the characteristics of the population to avoid bias

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The people or items that are to be sampled

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