D-Lab Workshop on Basic Sampling
Tom Piazza
(tompiazza99@gmail.com)
These files to download or print are Microsoft Word files, unless otherwise indicated.
Introduction to Sampling
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Outline
- Basic Concepts and Handouts for Each Topic
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Basic sampling concepts
- Population of interest
- Survey population
- Frames and coverage error
- Probability samples
- Sampling error
- Non-response error
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Basic methods for selecting samples
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Cluster sampling
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Stratification
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Sample Size Calculation
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Sampling Rare Populations
- Screening
- Oversampling
- Specialized lists
- Snowball sampling
- Respondent-driven sampling (RDS)
(See article below on RDS difficulties)
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Additional Resources
This file is located at 'http://sda.berkeley.edu/dlab/sampling'