SOCI 2150Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Macedonia Football Clubs Association, Quota Sampling, Royal Institute Of Technology
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Sampling: refers to the process of selecting subjects or participants whose responses to our questions are observations" . Element: that unit about which information is collected and that provides the basis of analysis (i. e. families, social clubs, individuals) * - more than one element can be studied. Population: the theoretically specified aggregation (formation of things into a cluster) of study elements - the collection of elements we want to generalize about: a study population (ex. Universities) is that aggregation of elements from which the sample is actually selected); (ex. only trent university) Select elements from a population, because it"s too expensive to sample every population. Sampling frame: list (or quasi list) of elements composing a population from which a probability sample is selected: for the sample to be representative, the sampling frame must include all (almost all) members of the population. Canada census, it would be hard to collect every canadian.
