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title: Subset/subgroup
description: "What it says! Used pretty interchangeably and generally in the context of comparing different subsets/subgroups: do people in full-time employment DNA more often than part-time or unemployed people? #### Try also [Population](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/population/) [Subpopulation](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/subpopulation/) [Sample](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/dataset/) [Dataset](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/dataset-and-database/) #### Chapters Mostly chapter 5…"
url: "https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/subset-subgroup/"
updated: "2021-11-12"
category: All OM book glossary entries
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# Subset/subgroup

What it says! Used pretty interchangeably and generally in the context of comparing different subsets/subgroups: do people in full-time employment DNA more often than part-time or unemployed people?

#### Try also

[Population](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/population/)
[Subpopulation](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/subpopulation/)
[Sample](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/dataset/)
[Dataset](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/dataset-and-database/)

#### Chapters

Mostly chapter 5 but these distinctions of subsamples from whole samples and of sample data from population data, and likewise of subsample data from subpopulation data, run through the chapters 7 and 8.

#### Dates

Created 12/11/21.