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• Sampling Issues in Quantitative Research
Anji Waring
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Faculty of Health and Social Work
What is a sample?• A small group drawn from
a larger population.• You could to it on an
entire population but it is unusual
• Looking for a group who represents the group
• The population is the entire set of subjects in a given group that form the focus of the study.
• The group you are going to apply the results
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• Want to apply the results to the bigger group
• May want to limit it (uk population of women over 50 with breast cancer
Who What When Where
• It may be necessary to distinguish between the theoretical and accessible population
IN THEORY WHO CAN YOU ACCESS (THEORETICAL) THOSE CAN GET ACCESS TO YOU (ACCESSIBLE) NOT BE ABLE TO GET TO EVERYONE!!!
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How can you access your sample?
• Sample Frame: A list, register, map or other set of data that contains all the accessible population. (e.g phone book; electoral roll; NMC register)• HOW YOU ARE GOING
TO CHOOSE YOUR SAMPLE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!Not always obvious from the surveyNeed to read and find out how they got hold of the people.
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• The sample is the group selected from your sample frame – not the group who are actually in the study.
Some may say no – they are still part of the sample because they become the non-
respondants. So sample is the numbers who did and didn’t respond Beware of self selecting they can produce bias. Poor response rate could mean you are missing out on poeple
Selecting a sample• In order to draw
conclusions about a larger population, the sample must be representative of that population.
Got to make sure that it respesents the numbers and the types of people studied.
• There are two main approaches to sampling: Probability (proably
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represattive) and Non-probability (probably not resprestative)Probability Sampling
• Any method of sampling that utilizes some form of random selection. This means that different units in your population have equal chance of being chosen.
Like raffle The lotery
• This is often done by using random numbers either generated by computers or by using tables.
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• Usually more structured in research
See hand out.
One hundred people who attended an outpatient clinic.
So you have 00 to 99 just the way of making sure that there is an equal cance of being selected. (Cormack (2001))
You can use random numbers and do things lk usisnt them backwards or
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upside down or inside down. Would this give you a random and representativeA way of not being biasedSome use computers – work it out.Sample to respesent the population as a whole.
Look for demographic tableBreaking it all down Then you decide if that is
represtative of what you are looking for.
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Types of probability sample
• Simple Random sampling: Generated from random tables etc of the whole population.
• Take the whole population. Take the sample frame reprenstitive of population then sample randomly from it.
• Accepted as the best way!!!!• Stratified Random sampling:
(proportional or quota random sampling) – dividing the sample frame into homogenous subgroups and taking a simple random sample from each group.
• Cluster Sampling – divide population into clusters (e.g
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wards) and then take a random sample of the clustersMulti Stage Sampling: Cluster then stratify then randomise
Although you do a random sample, you need to know the demography because chance can result in a bias in the first place.Looking to build a body of evidence. Evidence that would help to inform rather than just as a one of piece of research (eg, MMR)
Non-Probability Sampling
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• Includes all sampling procedures in which chance plays no rule in the determination of the actual make up of the sample.
Less rigourousVery often doneThe easiest way to getting a sample
Some include all the sample frame even though it is not a randomly generated sample.
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More descriptive but still quantitive.
Types of Non-Probability Sampling
• Convenience Sampling: Based on accessibility to the researcher rather than on the basis of random sample procedures. Often used when time and resources are limited.
The weakest form of samplingBut it is the most commonly used
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Not generalisable to a very great extent.Sometimes, there is some randomisation used
Make for more rigour but still not good enough• Volunteer Sampling:
Sample consists of subjects who have responded to an advertisement & have volunteered to take part in the study.
You are not trying to generalise
Ie, survey want people with a bereavement difficult to get a list of
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people ask for volunteers got to a place where you know you will find people.
You only get people who have axes to grind.
Journal samples violence in Nursing standard in 1986 just printed in the journals
400 odd people responded 0.05%
78% of the 0.05%Then they said that 78% of
nurses have suffered violence!!!!
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Mostly men (men are more likely to be hit as they work in places where it tends to get hit anyway)
But it was a volunteer sampleThey may have an axe
to grind It may be the only way
to access that groupWhat type of sample If it was a volunteer
sample, was effort made to make it representative.
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Types of Non-Probability Sampling
• Quota Sampling: Deliberate choice of approaching a quota of respondents to represent the population (e.g. men and women)
Done in market researchThey have to have x who are
y, x who are z… etc.
There is some chanceBut not an EVEN chance!!!!
Who ever happens to be thereNot a true sampleA deliberate choice
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• Snowball: In hard to reach groups, original respondents are asked to name others who share their characteristics
Ie IDVUS: who are part of a needle exchange. “could you tell your mates…..” Yes…. But….
Not randomMay not be trueConfidentialityCould be people who are
similar with reduced diversity(did it with football hooligans)Everyone in the same gang had similar views
Samples tend to be smallThere are skews There are biases
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• Purposive Sampling: Term used in qualitative research.
Gone out looking for people who have the attributes that you are looking for. Not randomJust for QUALATIVE!!!!!
Sample SizeMore important in
quantatitve rather than in qualitive….
Going on and on until you reach saturation
Where you aren’t getting anything new• Has to be large enough to
allow for generalisation.
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This is influenced by:– Subgroups for data analysis
need to be representative of the smallest groupIs this big enough for this to be valid….A statistision can usually tell you.
– Effect size – difference Should be worked out for you by the researchSignificant numbers in the group for it is doing what it is purporting it is.
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– between groups– Statistical calculations
(may require a power calculation to determine size)
Gives you a number of how many you need.Need to look at if they say that a power calculation of how many people you need so that they need to get to make it do what they want it to …The bigger the better!!!!!!
– Likely response rate
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Postal research rates tend to be lower.If you want 100, you need to send out 4-500 Face to face, it is less but you still need more as some will not be interested and also you will have biases due to the interviewer used…..You may have information about theose who didn’t respond.
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Keep a demography of the non-response rate.Careful how you use the information. is this reported without there consent.No mimium size but the smaller the size, the less represntable thus the less generisable.
Bias in relation to Sampling
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• Sampling Bias: means that the sampling procedure results in a sample that does not represent the population of interest.
• Selection Bias: occurs if the characteristics of the sample differ from those of the wider population.Randomisation of a Sample (Random
Assignment)• This is NOT the same as
random sampling.Random sampling is when you randomise
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Randomisation is when you have your sample, you then randomly assign them to a group…
So you can have a convenience sample and then randomly assign them.
• A procedure which is used to assign subjects randomly to treatment or control groups, in which the subjects have an
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equal opportunity to be assigned to either group.