These analyses are based on the assumption that the animals collected represent a randomly selected and thus representative sample of the population.
The Public Services Department is heading up the waste strategy, and is trying to involve as broad a sample of the population as possible.
However, people are unlikely to confess to breaking the law, and tax inspectors do not usually check on a random sample of the population.
The new results are the first from an ongoing study intended to assess mental health in a representative population sample, balanced for demographics and including people who returned home and those who remain dispersed around the country.
The technique allows statisticians to make guesses about the size and make-up of a population based on only a small sample.
The sample population is also asked whether they recognize an individual and, in the case of the candidates, whether they would consider that person an appealing choice for president.
This sentiment was echoed in the report, which stated that only 1.3% of the companies had a female founder, 6.5% had a female CEO, and 20% had one or more female C-level executives, most commonly in sales and marketing roles - accounting for 27% of the total population sample.
At the national level it is easy enough, though expensive, to account for this by surveying CPOs and including them in the sample in proportion to their share of the population.
Britain does not have an unusually high proportion of migrants among its population (higher than France and Italy, but lower than the other five countries in the sample).
Instead, they are considering gathering information from the vast, centralised databases held by government, such as tax records, benefit databases, electoral lists and school rolls, as well as periodic polling of a sample of the population.
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For clarification the study, per the statement quoted below in the last paragraph, was limited to a sample of individuals referred into comprehensive community mental services and not indicative of the general population of people on the spectrum.
The survey researchers and statisticians associated with the government were committed to obtaining a representative sample of the U.S. population in order to provide a true reflection of the country.
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