Evaluate the usefulness of cluster sampling as a method of sampling.

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  • Created by: jerd
  • Created on: 30-04-23 15:29

Evaluate the usefulness of cluster sampling as a method of sampling.

Advantages

  • easy + convenient
  • economy - the regular two main concerns of expenditure (travelling + listing) are greatly reduced
  • non-random sampling method likely to be of benefit where the customer base is widely spread

Disadvantages

  • can have biased samples
  • other probabilistic methods give fewer errors than this method#
  • decreased precision - requiring a large sample which increased cost
  • least representative of population which can skew results of the study

Evaluation

Th researcher divides the population into separate groups, called clusters. Then a simple random sample of clusters is selected from the population.

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