SAMPLING

PROCESS STEPS
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STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3
STEP 4
CLEARLY DEFINE SELECT CHOOSE
DETERMINE
TARGET SAMPLING SAMPLING
POPULATION
SAMPLE SIZE
FRAME TECHNIQUE

STEP 6
STEP 5
ASSESS
COLLECT
RESPONSE
DATA
RATE
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STEP 1
CLEARLY DEFINE GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS,
TARGET
POPULATION THAT THE INTERVENTION
INTENDS TO CONDUCT
RESEARCH IN AND DRAW
CONCLUSIONS FROM.
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STEP 2
SELECT
SAMPLING
FRAME
THE SAMPLING FRAME MUST BE
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
POPULATION.
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STEP 3
CHOOSE SAMPLING TECHNIQUES CAN BE
SAMPLING
DIVIDED INTO TWO TYPES:
TECHNIQUE
THE PROBABILITY OR
random sampling and the Non- probability or
non- random sampling.
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STEP 4 IN ORDER TO SIMPLIFY FROM A

DETERMINE
SAMPLE SIZE RANDOM SAMPLE AND AVOID
SAMPLING ERRORS OR
biases, a random sample needs to be of
suitable size.
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STEP 5
COLLECT COLLECT DATA
DATA
coming from the subjects of
your research study
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STEP 6
ASSESS RESPONSE RATE IS THE NUMBER
RESPONSE
RATE
OF CASES AGREEING TO TAKE PART
IN THE
study.
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IN REALITY, MOST
STEP 6 researchers never achieve a 100 percent response rate.
ASSESS
Reasons for this might
RESPONSE
RATE include refusal to respond, ineligibility to respond,
inability to respond, or the
respondent has been located but researchers are unable
to make contact.
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STEP 6 In sum, response rate is important because each

ASSESS nonresponse is liable to bias the final sample. Clearly
RESPONSE defining sample, employing the right sampling
RATE technique, and generating a large sample, in some
respects can help to reduce the likelihood of sample bias.