Students learn about sampling by tracing improvements in sampling procedures over the twentieth century. Scientific inquiries involving flawed sampling are illustrated and discussed using the Literary ...

Probability sampling has enjoyed a privileged position for good survey practice since the beginning of last century. Jerzy Neyman (1934) decisively contributed to this situation with his theory for ...

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in probability sampling, and some proponents of the method have urged its use in public opinion surveys. This article reports on a comparative study of ...

Activists challenging the validity of the reservations for Marathas have questioned the objectivity of the data gathering exercise undertaken to establish the need for a quota. Bombay high court (File ...

To study the relationships between the Eating Inventory (EI) factors (restraint, disinhibition and hunger), body adiposity and prevalence of selected diseases in a quota sample of Czech adults. The ...

Commercial Radio Australia and The Nielsen Company have announced that quota sampling of the P10 – 17 and P18 – 24 age groups will be tested from the next survey (April 2009 – Wave 3), as part of the ...