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Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which of the following is an advantage of a census?
It gives a completely accurate result
It is time efficient
It is cost efficient
It is easy to process large amounts of data
A sample can be better than a census because:
It is less time consuming
Fewer people have to respond
There is less data to process
The data is more accurate
Which of the following is an example of a sampling frame to get the opinions of residents for a new recycling centre?
A list of the recycling centre employees
A list of the residents
A list of the local MPs
None of the above
If I had a list of 60 sampling units in a sampling frame, and I wanted to use a systematic sample to get a sample of 12 units, I would choose every.....
4th unit
5th unit
6th unit
10th unit
Interviewing people in a shopping centre as they are passing by would be an example of....
Simple random sampling
Quota sampling
Opportunity sampling
Stratified sampling
If a class for continuous data was labelled 20-25 (to the nearest whole number) then the class boundaries would be:
20 and 25
19.51 and 24.49
19.5 and 20.5
None of the above
The daily maximum gust is measured in:
Knots
Octa
hectopascals
hours
In the large data set, tr represents:
total rainfall
trickle
the rainfall
trace
Which of the following places are coastal?
Leeming
Camborne
Heathrow
Beijing
Daily mean pressure is measured in?
decametres
hectopascals
knots
%
For which months does the large data set cover?
May-September
June-October
May-October
January-December
An advantage of simple random sampling is....
It is free of bias
It is good for large populations
It does not require a sampling frame
It guarantees proportional representation
Rainfall is an example of what type of data?
Quantitative
Qualitative
Continuous
Discrete
Daily mean total cloud, measured in oktas, is what type of data?
Discrete
Continuous
Qualitative
Quantitative
Which of the following is a step in obtaining a random sample?
Selecting every 5th person in the sampling frame
Using a random numbers table to select the sampling units
Choosing people who are available as they pass by
Dividing the population into mutually exclusive strata
