Answer to Question #289153 in Statistics and Probability for Akki

Question

Suggest an appropriate sampling method, giving a reason.For the following situation: To find the average income of employees,in a certain factory employing various categories such as managers, supervisors, clerks, workers.

Answer 1

Stratified random sampling Method, Researchers have to identify characteristics ,divide the population into strata and proportionally choose individual for the representative sample .

Managers, Supervisors, Clerks and workers have different roles in the school,this implies that their characteristics are different from each other,Hence the Stratified random sampling Method suit the model to find the average income of employees.