Sampling

Question 1

Sampling Units

Answer 1

list of elements of characteristics

Question 2

Sampling Frame

Answer 2

lists that help you filter for your sampling units

Question 3

Non-Probability Sampling

Answer 3

Exploratory/ Qualitative Research

-focus on forming a hypothesis

Question 4

Convenience

Answer 4

sample most accessible to researcher

Question 5

Purposive/ Judgement Sampling

Answer 5

choose people who you know have specific experience or opinions on the topic of your research

Question 6

Snowball

Answer 6

ask participants to recruit other participants

Question 7

Voluntary Response

Answer 7

People volunteer themselves

Question 8

Probability Sampling

Answer 8

Quantitative/ Descriptive/ Causal
more effort to make a randomized sample of your target population
-effort is put in to create a representative sample of the whole population

Question 9

Simple

Answer 9

every member of population has equal chance of being selected
–random number generator

Question 10

Systematic

Answer 10

similar to Simple, but less work to randomize

- individuals are chosen at regular intervals

Question 11

Stratified

Answer 11

being aware of subpopulations in target population

Question 12

Cluster

Answer 12

we think each subgroup has characteristics that match the total population
- randomly select entire subgroups