A county planning commission is attempted to survey 1500 households from the counties 400,000 households. A random sample was selected and surveys were mailed to the randomly selected households, but only 1075 were returned. The inability to collect data from the 425 households that didn't return the survey would be considered which type of sampling problem?
A) selection bias
B) nonresponse bias
C) measurement error 2 Unethical Statistics

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Nonresponse bias occurs when a significant number of selected participants do not respond to a survey, potentially skewing the results if the non-respondents differ in relevant ways from respondents.

A County Planning Commission Is Attempted to Survey 1500 Households