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 ...

This paper describes certain quota sampling procedures and attempts to show that they are very close to traditional probability sampling. Quotas are shown to depend on availability for interviewing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...