If they are randomly drawn and large enough.
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There are two equivalent ways of defining a simple random sample from a larger population. One definition is that every member of the population has the same probability of being included in the sample. The second is that, if you generate all possible samples of the given size from the population, then each such sample has the same probability of being selected for use.
Samples
If repeated samples are taken from a population, then they will not have the same mean each time. The mean itself will have some distribution. This will have the same mean as the population mean and the standard deviation of this statistic is the standard deviation of the mean.
different samples of respondents from the population complete the survey over a time period
There are 324,632 possible samples.