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Investigate techniques for collecting data, including census, sampling and observation (ACMSP284)

Elaborations
  • identifying situations where data can be collected by census and those where a sample is appropriate
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
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Data collection

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