Terms used in official statistics

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Stratum


Definition:

The subpopulation of the population studied is a subset of the population selected in the specified population, which is a new population (stratified random sampling). The purpose of dividing the studied population into strata, that is, stratification, is to isolate in a diverse population the possible homogeneous groups of individuals, e.g. in the opinion poll strata, are defined as occupational groups


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