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SEGMENTATION VARIABLES: Characteristics of organizations, groups, and individuals which are used to divide a market into smaller units or segments. Some of these characteristics would be age, gender, geographic location, or psychological factors. Typically, these can be grouped into 4 categories; demographic, geographic, psychological, and behavioristic.The marketer uses these variables to develop a target market for their products or services.

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PUBLIC SECTOR: A fancy-schmancy term for government, which for the United States includes all three levels--federal, state, and local. The term public sector is most useful as a contrast to the term private sector, which includes households and businesses.

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DATA

Observations or measurements that quantify or otherwise identify some aspect of the real world. Data are used to track economic performance, quantify economic characteristics, and test economic hypotheses. Data collection is often the most challenging part of undertaking an empirical analysis.

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