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A survey is used more often than a census because a census requires everybody to respond, while a survey only needs a few people. This means a survey is advantageous for many reasons:

  1. It doesn't matter if not everyone responds, you can just survey more people.
  2. It is much cheaper to survey than hold a census.
  3. It is less effort to hold a survey than hold a census.
  4. It takes less time to hold a survey than hold a census.
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