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	Quota may refer to: A level business Quota sampling Quota sampling In quota sampling, the population is first segmented into mutually exclusive sub-groups, just as in stratified sampling. Then judgment is used to select the subjects or units from each segment based on a specified proportion.... Affirmative action Racial quota Reservations in India Quotas in Pakistan Quotas in Pakistan Quotas in Pakistan were introduced in order to give equal opportunity for jobs, representation in assemblies and educational institutions to women, non-Muslims and people from under developed rural areas.... Computing Disk quota Disk quota A disk quota is a limit set by a system administrator that restricts certain aspects of file system usage on modern operating systems.... Download quota Upload quota Electoral systems Election threshold Election threshold In party-list proportional representation systems, an election threshold is a clause that stipulates that a party must receive a minimum percentage of votes, either nationally or within a particular district, to get any seats in the parliament.... Droop quota Droop Quota The Droop Quota is the quota most commonly used in elections held under the Single Transferable Vote system. It is also sometimes used in elections held under the largest remainder method of party-list proportional representation .... Hagenbach-Bischoff quota Hagenbach-Bischoff quota The Hagenbach-Bischoff quota is a formula used in some voting systems based on proportional representation . It is used in some elections held under the largest remainder method of party-list proportional representation as well as in a variant of the D'Hondt method known as the Hagenbach-Bischoff System.... Hare quota Hare quota The Hare quota is a formula used under some forms of the Single Transferable Vote system and the largest remainder method of party-list proportional representation.... Imperiali quota Imperiali quota The Imperiali quota is a formula used to calculate the minimum number, or Quota Share, of votes required to capture a seat in some forms of Single Transferable Vote or largest remainder method party-list proportional representation voting systems.... Military Quota System (Royal Navy) Quota System (Royal Navy) The Quota System , introduced by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in 1795, required each English county to provide a quota of men for the Royal Navy, based on its population and the number of its seaports — London, for example, had to provide 5,704 quotamen, while Yorkshire had to provide 1,081.... Trade Import quota Import quota An import quota is a type of protectionism trade restriction that sets a physical limit on the quantity of a good that can be imported into a country in a given period of time.... , is a type of protectionist trade restriction Individual fishing quota Individual fishing quota Individual fishing quotas are one kind of catch share, a means by which many governments have tried to regulate fishing. Due to the widely recognized decimation of wild fish populations, governments set a species-by-species limit of Common Fisheries Policy#Total allowable catch .... See also Quota share Quota share A quota share is a specified number or percentage of the allotment as a whole , that is prescribed to each individual entity .For example, the United States of America imposes an import quota on cars from Japan.... , distribution of a quota amongst individual entities Tobacco quota, the maximum amount of tobacco that a farmer can grow in a single growing season