Quantitative Research Design And Methodology Evaluating Sampling Method And Sample Size

Quantitative Research Design and Methodology “Evaluating Sampling Method and Sample Size”NameCourseTutor’s NameDatePart 1 Samplinga. Steps to draw a stratified sample consisting of 75 doctors, lawyers, and engineers from members a professional organizationStep 1: Develop or obtain a current list of the names of members of the organisation and include their professional memberships. Step 2: Create a table on a spreadsheet with members name in one column and the professional membership in the column adjacent to each of the names of members.Step 3: Use the sort function to sort the names by professional membership.Step 4: Select all the names with doctor, lawyer and engineer as the profession and discard the rest of the namesStep 5: Sort the data into three separate lists for each profession i.e. doctors, lawyers and engineersStep 6: Use a formula list to generate a list containing 75 random names from the list of each professionStep 7: The list for doctors, engineers and lawyers now contain 75 names and form the stratified sample of 75 doctors, lawyers, and engineers.Stratified sampling is an attempt to increase the accuracy of sampling