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by dclowd9901 3816 days ago
Statistically, doesn't a sample size of 2000 get you pretty close to +/- a 5% margin of error?
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I'm not sure what you mean by 'statistically' above.

In general you can't say whether a sample size of 2000 will get you within a specific margin of error without additional information. It very much depends e.g. on what the hypothesis you're testing is or what you're trying to estimate.