Answer to Question #142990 in Statistics and Probability for khania J Brassfield

Question

you are interested in gathering data from households in cambridge MA. you obtain a phone book and identify a list of households to contact through the phone book. in this example the phone book is an example of what? in answering this question discuss and define the key sampling terms sample population and sampling frame

Answer 1

A perfect sampling frame is an accurate list of all the members or elements of the population from which units to be sampled are to be selected.

A telephone directory is usually not an acceptable sampling frame because it does not include households that do not have landline telephones, those who obtained a phone connection after the telephone book was printed and those with unlisted numbers

Approximately we may consider the phone book as a sampling frame, but not as a sampling population.