The plaintiffs originally sought a larger sample of 300,000 households.

Altogether, 60 speakers were recorded, taken from a random sample of 120 households.

So far, three annual surveys have been conducted, in 1985/86, 1987, and 1988/89, each based on a sample of nearly 1,000 households in Britain.

The literacy data come from a 1992 survey of a representative national sample of 27,000 households and 1,100 prisoners.

The study took a random sample of 1,600 households last July.

In addition, the original plan called for the census takers to conduct interviews with a nationwide sample of 750,000 households.

Resources are available for a sample of 300 households.

The committee has met almost daily in recent weeks, poring over data from the actual census, plus the results of the sample of 314,000 households.

She performs the analysis using a sample of 2,750 households surveyed in eight Peruvian cities in 2000.

To avoid a large undercount, officials plan to conduct a nationwide survey of a randomly selected sample of 300,000 households.