Question

If a field researcher wanted to learn a political organization's pattern of recruitment over time, the researcher might begin by interviewing a fairly recent recruit and ask who introduced that person to the organization. Then the researcher might interview the person named ask who introduced that person to the political organization. What sampling method would this be an example of?

Answer 1

The correct answer is snowball sampling

Snowball sampling is a type of non-probabilistic sampling that is used when potential participants are difficult to find or if the sample is limited to a very small subset of the population.

In this type of sampling, research participants recruit other participants for a test or study. Here, researchers use their own judgment to choose participants, unlike simple random sampling, where the chances of any member being chosen are the same.