31.   Statistical sampling is best understood as using information derived from a portion of a population to infer information on the population as a whole.

32.   Statistical sampling is a method by which the Census Bureau would contact a portion of those households that fail to mail back their census form.

33.   Statistical sampling, Clinton said, would include in the count people who might be missed by traditional techniques.

34.   Statisticians, on the other hand, have endorsed the practice of statistical sampling.

35.   That statistical sampling, while scientifically sound, has run afoul of partisan politics.

36.   That would depend on whether the Republican-led Congress, which opposes statistical sampling, provides enough money for the Census Bureau to conduct two counts.

37.   The Academy recommended the use of statistical sampling as a followup to mail-in forms and door-to-door interviews.

38.   The administration also said that neither the federal Census Act nor the Constitution prohibits statistical sampling.

39.   The administration immediately said it would appeal the ruling, which was made by a special three-judge panel that said statistical sampling violated federal law.

40.   The clash over whether to adjust the population count using a method called statistical sampling is contentious.