Indicate what would be the relevant population and the most

Indicate what would be the relevant population and the most appropriate sampling design. Be sure to give the reasons for your answers.

Scenario: A consultant had administered a questionnaire to some 285 employees using a simple random sampling procedure. As she looked at the responses, she suspected that two questions might not have been clear to the respondents. She would like to know if her suspicion is well-founded. State the relevant population and the most appropriate sampling design. Be sure to discuss the reasons for your answers.

Solution

RELEVANT POPULATION :

EMPLOYEES TO DO THE QUESTIONNAIRE

sampling design :

Stratified Sampling • Stratified sampling is more complicated than SRS. The advantage is the guaranteed representativeness in some important characteristics. • For example, say that we want to select a sample of 100 individuals. Sex ratio in the sample is up to chance if we do SRS. We can guarantee the 50-50 split if we do stratified sampling