The population of a town is divided into three age categories. A random sample of each category is surveyed about voting choices. This type of sampling is called

The population is divided into age categories, and a random sample is taken from each category. This is stratified sampling: each category is a stratum, and individuals are sampled from every stratum. Cluster sampling would instead select only some groups and survey members within those selected groups.

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