INTRODUCTION Many professions (business, government, engineering, science, social research, agriculture, etc.) seek the broadest possible factual basis for decision-making. In the absence of data on the subject, a decision taken is just like leaping into the dark. Sampling is a procedure, where in a fraction of the data is taken from a large set of data, and the inference drawn from the sample is extended to whole group. [Raj, p4] The surveyor’s (a person or a establishment in charge of ...
