Chapter
Seven. The Logic of Sampling
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF SAMPLING
President Alf Landon
President Thomas E. Dewey
Two Types of Sampling Methods
NONPROBABILITY SAMPLING
Reliance on Available Subjects
Purposive or Judgmental Sampling
Snowball Sampling
Quota Sampling
Selecting Informants
THE THEORY AND LOGIC OF PROBABILITY SAMPLING
Conscious and Unconscious Sampling Bias
Representativeness and Probability of Selection
Random Selection
Probability Theory, Sampling Distributions, and Estimates
of Sample Error
POPULATIONS AND SAMPLING FRAMES
Review of Populations and Sampling Frames
TYPES OF SAMPLING DESIGNS
Simple Random Sampling
Systematic Sampling
Stratified Sampling
Implicit Stratification in Systematic Sampling
Illustration: Sampling University Students
MULTISTAGE CLUSTER SAMPLING
Multistage Designs and Sampling Error
Stratification in Multistage Cluster Sampling
Probability Proportionate to Size (PPS) Sampling
Disproportionate Sampling and Weighting
Illustration: Sampling Churchwomen
PROBABILITY SAMPLING IN REVIEW