A sample of households in a community is selected at random from the telephone directory. In this community, 2% of households have no telephone, 14% have only cell phones, and another 25% have unlisted telephone numbers. The sample will certainly suffer from

A. nonresponse.

B. false responses.

C. undercoverage.

D. None of the above.

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Giancarlo Garcia

Mathematics

10 May, 00:09

A sample of households in a community is selected at random from the telephone directory. In this community, 2% of households have no telephone, 14% have only cell phones, and another 25% have unlisted telephone numbers. The sample will certainly suffer from

A. nonresponse.

B. false responses.

C. undercoverage.

D. None of the above.

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Ingrid Jones · Answer 1

under coverage

Step-by-step explanation:

From the given information we can say that 2% of households have no telephone, 14% have only cell phones, and another 25% have unlisted telephone numbers. Since, the facility is available some part of population and not available to the whole population so, clearly its an examples under coverage.