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Published in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology • Oct 26, 2015
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Authors:
Roger E. Kirk

Abstract

A census, which is a survey of every unit in a population, is rarely used to gather information in the social sciences because it is often costly, time consuming, or impracticable. Instead, researchers gather the information from a sample that is assumed to be representative of the population. Such ...

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