Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The U.S. Government uses tax dollars to conduct the Census.
2. Quota sampling requires that the researcher have some prior knowledge of characteristics in the population.
3. The proportion of the whole population that the sample represents is more important than the size of the sample for determining the sample's representativeness.
4. We can mathematically determine the likely degree of sampling error in an estimate based on a random sample, provided we have a reasonable response rate.
5. Qualitative research methods tend to use probability sampling methods.


1. True
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. False

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