Sampling Assignment

1. Simple Random Sampling:

The chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board decided to increase the training time
of the players in the off-season period to keep the players fit and well-
prepared for the tournaments and series. The mentor of the national team
advised not to do this because this would cause a mental pressure and
increase working stress. He used the simple sampling method to take the
responses of few of the players from 25-member active contracted squad,
which includes players of different fitness level, areas, playing style and
other attributes.

2. Stratified Random Sampling:

A researcher interested in how having a doctoral degree affects the wage gap
between gender identities among graduates of a certain university.
Because only a small proportion of this university’s graduates have obtained
a doctoral degree, using a simple random sample would likely give you a
sample size too small to properly compare the differences between men,
women, and those who do not identify as men or women with a doctoral
degree versus those without one.
Therefore, you decide to use a stratified sample, relying on a list provided by
the university of all its graduates within the last ten years.

3. Systematic Random Sampling:

Suppose IoBM’s canteen owner wants to study the students’ buying habits.
With systematic random sampling, they can choose every 10th or 15th
student entering the canteen. Then, they can conduct the study on this
sample.

4. Cluster Sampling:
IoBM’s canteen owner is planning to expand her business into every
building of the university. Before that, she wants to know how many
students belongs to which program and in which building do they spend
most of their time and comes to the canteen to buy the products. She
 splits the university into parts by buildings and randomly selects students
to form cluster samples. Then she surveys every member chosen from the
buildings for her research. 

5. Area Sampling:
IoBM’s management wants increase the number of dustbins to keep the
campus clean and for that they want to know the places where the dustbins
should be installed. They asked the sweeper to identify the places where they
find trash most often, so that the management can install dustbins theirs.

6. Double Sampling:
As of the previous data collected, the owner of the canteen wants analyze the
information collected. She might take the list and check the buying behavior
of students belonging to different departments and semesters. Also, their
buying behaviors in different weather seasons.

7. Convenience Sampling:
A marketing student wants to get feedback on the “scope of content
marketing in 2020.” The student can quickly create an online survey, send a
link to all the contacts on his phone, share a link on social media, and talk to
people he meets daily, face-to-face.

8. Judgement Sampling:
Consider a scenario where a panel decides to understand what are the factors
which lead a person to select ethical hacking as a profession. Ethical hacking
is a skill which has been recently attracting youth. More and more people are
selecting it as a profession. The researchers who understand what ethical
hacking is will be able to decide who should form the sample to learn about
it as a profession. That is when judgmental sampling is implemented.
Researchers can easily filter out those participants who can be eligible to be
a part of the research sample.

9. Quota Sampling:
Suppose a tech company wants to know the opinion of customers about a
new product. They decide to collect data from 1,000 customers from the
following age groups in the corresponding proportions:

 Age 18 – 30: 40%

 Age 31 – 50: 40%
 Age 51-70: 20%