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- Title
Statistically Nonrepresentative Stratified Sampling: A Sampling Technique for Qualitative Studies.
- Authors
Trost, Jan E.
- Abstract
When doing quantitative studies, we usually need a statistically representative sample. The same is often not the case with qualitative studies where we need a sample with variations along the independent variables. The technique described here is simple to use and guarantees variations. A statistically representative sample, on the other hand, if small, often gives few variations. Thus, one could say that the technique presented is a kind of statistically nonrepresentative stratified sampling useful in qualitative studies.
- Subjects
QUALITATIVE research; QUANTITATIVE research; SOCIAL sciences fieldwork; CASE method (Teaching); STATISTICAL sampling; STATISTICS
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1986, Vol 9, Issue 1, p54
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00988249