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GCSE Geography · key term
The complete set of people, places, objects or observations that an investigation aims to draw conclusions about.
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The whole set of people, objects or sites that an investigation seeks to understand.
Revise: Designing Fieldwork and Sampling StrategiesThe population is the whole set being investigated—for example, all residents of a town or all pebbles on a beach. A sample is the smaller set actually studied. Sampling saves time, but the aim is to capture the important variation in the population rather than an unusually narrow part of it.
Specification 1.2 · Component 1, Component 2, Component 3
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The population is everything your investigation aims to draw conclusions about: perhaps all pedestrians using an area, all pebbles on a beach or all possible measurement locations in a field. Usually there is not enough time to investigate the whole population, so you select a sample.
The complete set of people, places or features being investigated.
