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What is Unit of ecological study is: and explain in detail?
Ref. Foundations of Community medicine. Page. 107
 
In ecological studies the unit of observation is the population or community.

Disease rates and exposures are measured in each of a series of populations and their relation is examined.
Often the information about disease and exposure is abstracted from published statistics and therefore does not require expensive or time