A student found that her survey respondents did not reflect the population of the city she was studying. She used existing population characteristics including race and age to adjust her results. This is called

a. Oversampling
b. Stratified sampling
c. Post-stratification weighting
d. Disproportionate sampling


c. Post-stratification weighting

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