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What are the types of sampling?

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Random Sampling

Quasi random sampling (every tenth or hundredth name selected)

Stratified random sampling (dividing population into groups and then taking a small sample of each)

Quota sampling (researcher looks for the right people)

Snowball sampling (people find more people with the same characteristics)

Cluster sampling (dividing a population into groups - usually geographically)

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Advantages

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quick, cheap, reliable, representative, generalisable, patterns cuz of pre-coded questions, objective

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Disadvantages

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Inflexible, low response rate, can be biased, can be unvalid

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