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Convenience Sampling


Category:
Type:
Synonyms:
grab sampling, accidental sampling, opportunity sampling
People:
1 User(s),   1 Collaborator(s)
Characteristic:

Research      Approach: Intrusive, Purpose: Bound the research, Purpose: Recruit participants, Researcher location: Absent, Researcher location: Present, Researcher location: Remote, Researcher location: Varies through method, Time perspective: Future, Time perspective: Present/past, Type of data collected: Any, Unit of analysis: Participants, User role: Not applicable, User setting: Setting independent

Date:
March 8, 2015
Summary:
Convenience Sampling is a recruitment technique that draws on the most convenient people that may fit the criteria, e.g. sitting at a cafe. It can lead to biased results as this method does not allow the researcher to have any control over the representativeness of the sample, so the researcher...

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