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Constructing a National Sample of Cities (Intermediate Level)
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Lehmann, Susan, and Norah Schultz. 2010. “Constructing a National Sample of Cities (Intermediate Level)”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/constructing-a-national-sample-of-cities.

Abstract

The purpose of this exercise is to learn how to construct a national sample for a
hypothetical survey. Many survey projects fail to generate significant or believable
findings because the researcher did not pay careful attention to sampling procedures. If
the sample of people interviewed inadequately represents the target population for...

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Research Methods
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