Question

Dr. Luxley wanted to make sure his research sample was representative of the local rural community with approximately 65% females and 35% males. He wanted to make sure his sample had similar demographics so he used:

A)stratified random sampling.
B)random sampling.
C)convenience sampling.
D)area probability sampling.

Answer 1

Stratified random sampling

Step-by-step explanation:

Stratified random sampling is the sampling in which the population can be divided into the substrata. This strategy is very advantageous to all populations.The stratified sampling is the sampling that divided the population in homogeneous group before the sampling.

There are different strategies in stratified sampling such as:

• Proportionate allocate
• The optimum allocation