Citation

Elliott MN, Golinelli D, Hambarsoomians K, Perlman J, Wenzel SL. Field Methods 2006; 18(1): 43-58.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1525822X05284014

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this article, the authors present a statistically efficient, cost-effective way of collecting a probability sample in the presence of certain field burden constraints: restrictions on the maximum number of participants that can be sampled within a given institution and a small population size relative to the sample size dictated by the study aims. The authors suggest the use of disproportionate stratified random sampling as an alternative to two-stage sampling under these circumstances and illustrate how to account, via weighting, for the participants' differential probabilities of inclusion. They describe their approach with respect to a study of impoverished women, for which this sampling scheme was quite effective.