From: Surveying immigrants without sampling frames – evaluating the success of alternative field methods
Suitable for (target population) | Type of sampling | Frames of random selection | Further reading (examples) |
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General population | Random digit dialling | Telephone numbers | - |
General population | Random routes/random walk | List of households, place (time) | Brief overview described in FRA 2009b, p. 11–14 |
Sub-population/minor domains | Conventional household sampling with focused enumeration | List of households, place (time), clusters defined by selected addresses and adjacent households | E.g. Ipsos MORI, 2010; Erens, 2013, p. 52–53; or FRA, 2009b, p. 14–18 |
Sub-population/minor domains | Conventional sampling with Adaptive Cluster Sampling | List of households, place (time), clusters of neighbouring households | Verma, 2013 |
Sub-population/minor domains | Time-location sampling | Place (Time) | Baio et al., 2011 |
Sub-population/minor domains | Capture-Recapture | Place (Time) | |
Total or sub-population/minor domains | GPS based sampling | Place (GPS) | Landry & Shen, 2005 |
Sub-population/minor or mini domains | Respondent-Driven-Sampling (RDS) | Network | Heckathorn, 1997, http://www.respondentdrivensampling.org/ |
Sub-population/minor or mini domains | Snowball sampling | Network | Goodman, 1961 |
Sub-population/ethnic minorities/immigrants | Onomastic sampling | Names/telephone book | Schnell et al., 2013 |