AP Statistics › How to conduct a census
Kate would like to determine what flavors of ice cream are most popular among students in her AP Statistics class. In total, there are 100 students in the class. Which of the following would be an appropriate sampling methodology?
Obtain a census of the class and survey each person in the class to determine their favorite flavor of ice cream
Ask every fifth person that walks through the door what their favorite flavor of ice cream is before class starts
Randomly select several of the most popular students in the class to answer questions about their favorite ice cream flavor
There is no effective way to obtain a representative sample from the target population
Group students into several homogeneous groups and choose one group to survey in order to determine the class's favorite ice cream flavor
In this situation, it is best to conduct a census in order to determine what the class's favorite flavor of ice cream is. Since there are only 100 students in the class, a sample of the class would be very small and may not be representative of the class as a whole.
Census is to __________ as survey is to __________.
population; sample
sample; population
population; group
cluster; stratum
There are no similarities between these two.
A census gathers data from an entire population of people. A survey targets a representative sample of a population.