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SAMPLING METHODS - DE LEON & DE JESUS

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Mr. Ramos is trying to gather data for his study. He goes to a fast food restaurant during the lunch hour and asks people who walk into the restaurant if they would be willing to fill out a questionnaire. Which of the following methods of sampling is Michael using?

a)

Quota Sampling

b)

Convenience Sampling

c)

Purposive Sampling

d)

Snowball Sampling

2.

Convenience sampling relies on which of the following?

a)

Studying people who are colleagues of the researcher

b)

Studying people who are typical

c)

Studying people who are willing to participate

d)

Studying people who are easy to find

3.

If a researcher conducts a study and chooses for a sample all the members of a psychology class because he thinks they will make the best subjects, that is an example of:

a)

Convenience Sampling

b)

Purposive Sampling

c)

Snowball Sampling

d)

Voluntary Response Sampling

4.

If I conduct a research and recruit for my sample my friend Joe, and he recruits his friend Amber, and she recruits her friend Sophia, that is an example of:

a)

Convenience Sampling

b)

Purposive Sampling

c)

Snowball Sampling

d)

Quota Sampling

5.

A study aimed at assessing the job satisfaction levels of employees in a large organization involved selecting participants from different departments until a predetermined number of participants was reached for each department. What type of sampling technique was employed?

a)

Convenience Sampling

b)

Purposive Sampling

c)

Quota Sampling

d)

Snowball Sampling

6.

Kirsty would like to survey what people enjoy eating for lunch in the canteen. She lists all the members in the population and gives them a unique reference number. After selecting the first member at random, she then selects the remainder of the sample over a specified interval. What type of sampling method is Kirsty using?

a)

Simple Random Sampling

b)

Systematic Sampling

c)

Stratified Sampling

d)

Cluster Sampling

7.

Peter is carrying out a survey. He would like to find out how many miles people drive per day. He divides the population into a two way table, and calculates the proportion of each category required for his sample. Which sampling technique is Peter using?

a)

Simple Random Sampling

b)

Systematic Sampling

c)

Stratified Sampling

d)

Cluster Sampling

8.

Laura has a sampling frame of all the people who are members of a club. She gives each member a unique reference number and uses a random number generator to select the sample. Which sampling method is Laura using?

a)

Simple Random Sampling

b)

Systematic Sampling

c)

Stratified Sampling

d)

Cluster Sampling

9.

The WXY company has offices in 10 cities across the country (all with roughly the same number of employees in similar roles). Jay don’t have the capacity to travel to every office to collect the data he needed, so he use random sampling to select 3 offices – these are the clusters.

a)

Simple Random Sampling

b)

Systematic Sampling

c)

Stratified Sampling

d)

Cluster Sampling

10.

Statement R: Stratified Sampling is used in situation where the population can be easily divided by groups.

Statement S: Elements within a group are heterogeneous with respect to characteristics

a)

Statement R is correct but statement S is wrong

b)

Both the statements are correct

c)

Both statements are wrong

d)

Statement R is wrong but Statement S is correct