SAMPLING
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American Association of Public Opinion Research report on non-Probability Sampling    http://jssam.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/2/90.full     Reviews of different kinds of non probability sampling and when it may be okay to use them. 


Writing@CSU | The Writing Studio has an overview of surveys, including this page on sampling   http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/page.cfm?pageid=1417&guideid=68  


Anol Bhattacherjee  Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices   http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/oa_textbooks/3/   from 2012
See chapter 8 on sampling.


Susan Handy's notes   http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/ESP178/ESP178_page.htm   from 2016. One section is on sampling


Stat 506  https://onlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat506/node/2   has some notes on sampling


Trochim's sampling section   http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/sampling.php   of the knowledge base. Last revised in 2006.


Sampling Guide  http://www.fantaproject.org/publications/sampling.shtml   "This guide shows how to choose samples of communities, households, and/or individuals..."  Described here, can download the pdf file. The guide is from 1999, and has a 2012 addendum
 

Sampling methods   http://www.statcan.gc.ca/edu/power-pouvoir/ch13/5214895-eng.htm   discusses many types of sampling.

statistics glossery   http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/sampling.html   brief definition of sampling terms
 

Brief introducation to sampling    http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/fact_sample.html    brief intro and some considerations.
 

RESEARCH FORUM--The Research Sample, Part I: Sampling   http://www.oandp.org/jpo/library/1995_03_105.asp    by Thomas R. Lunsford, MSE, CO and Brenda Rae Lunsford, MS, MAPT.  overview of sampling and some issues. From the american academy of orthotists and prosthetists, 1995.  
 

Respondent Driven Sampling. Matthew Salganik.  http://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/rds.shtml   This method uses snowball sampling, not to estimate population characteristics, but to estimate characteristics of a network of people in a hidden population (e.g., drug users, etc)


Respondent Driven Sampling http://www.respondentdrivensampling.org/ Douglas Heckathorn, Cornell U. Respondent Driven Sampling is a chain-referral method, or 'snowball' sampling that yields random samples of target populations and provides the means to calculate unbiased estimates of population parameters.


Yu, Chong Ho (2003). Resampling methods: concepts, applications, and justification.   http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=8&n=19    describes resampling methods


Non-Sampling Error in Economic Surveys at Statistics New Zealand  http://www.stats.govt.nz/surveys_and_methods/methods/survey-design-data-collection.aspx  what is non sampling error, what to do about it.

Fricker, R.D., Jr. Sampling Methods for Web and E-mail Surveys,   http://faculty.nps.edu/rdfricke/frickerpa.htm    SAGE Internet Research Methods, J. Hughes, ed., London: SAGE Publications. Reprinted from The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods,



The UN has several papers

Expert Group Meeting to Review the Draft Handbook on Designing of Household Sample Surveys   http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/meetings/egm/default.htm   The 2003 meeting has several documents about sampling.

Designing Household Survey Samples: Practical Guidelines (2008)   http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/standmeth/handbooks/default.htm#survey  Click on "Survey"  also on the same page, Household Sample Surveys in Developing and Transition Countries (2005)




Random and non random sampling


American Association for Public Opinion Research has a report from the Task Force on Non-Probability Sampling (listed above). Here is a summary  
http://jssam.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/2/90.full  

Sampling, Nonrandom   http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9781405131995_chunk_g978140513199524_ss1-1   Andrew Hayes, in International Encyclopedia of Communication.  not free, but should be interesting if you can get it.


Non-probability sampling   http://www.statcan.gc.ca/edu/power-pouvoir/ch13/nonprob/5214898-eng.htm   overview of types and uses, and says non-probability sampling can be used for questionnaire testing and some preliminary studies during the development stage of a survey.


 

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