MODULE 3 - Sampling Procedures

Question 1

What sampling procedure groups participants according to
preselected criteria relevant to a particular research question?

Answer 1

Purposive Sampling

Question 2

A researcher relies on the initial participants to help identify
additional study participants.

Answer 2

snowball sampling procedure

Question 3

What sampling procedure is typically used by journalists who need
quick and easy access to people from their population of interest?

Answer 3

Convenience Sampling

Question 4

A researcher who wanted to study how people with genital herpes
cope with their medical condition has been referred by the first
interviewee to another potential subject. What sampling procedure is
employed?

Answer 4

Snowball Sampling

Question 5

A case study that seeks to examine the financial and economic lives of
Philippine indigenous people was conducted by interviewing 16
participants from three selected indigenous communities in the
Philippines with the following characteristics: four elderly (2 males, 2
females), four adolescents (2 male and 2 female), and the remaining
eight informants were household heads and their spouses. What
sampling procedure was used?

Answer 5

Quota Sampling

Question 6

How does quota sampling differ with purposive sampling procedure?

Answer 6

Quota sampling is more specific with respect to sizes and
proportions of subsamples

Question 7

The researcher seeks out elements that meet specific criteria.

Answer 7

purposive sampling procedure

Question 8

Participants of a case study on working street children were recruited
by two former street working children who recommended some of their
friends on the street to participate in the study. Which method was
used?

Answer 8

Snowball Sampling