Answer to Question #163054 in Statistics and Probability for Sunny

Question

In which of the following methods of sampling the population is divided into groups so that the elements in each group are homogeneous and the groups vary from each other ?

a. judgmental sampling

b. stratified sampling

c. systematic sampling

d. cluster sampling

e. random sampling

Answer 1

Typological grouping is the division of a heterogeneous set of observation units into separate qualitatively homogeneous groups and the identification of socio-economic types of phenomena on this basis. When building a grouping of this type, the main attention should be paid to the identification of types and the choice of a grouping attribute. The decision on the basis of the grouping should be carried out on the basis of the analysis of the essence of the studied socio-economic phenomenon.

Answer: b