G. Which of the following situations will result in probability or non-probability sampling?
1. Population: All residents of a big city
Sampling technique: For one week, researchers stop every fourth
person who passes by a busy downtown street corner.
2. Population: All students in a large high school
Sampling technique: selecting the first 50 students reporting to
school on a Wednesday morning.
3. Population: All the 72 guests at a birthday party.
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Sampling technique: The name of each person is written on a slip
of paper then all are placed in a box, mixed, then drawn one after
the other for the available ten door prizes.
4. Population: Business owners with less than 15 employees
Sampling technique: Get information from the DTI (business permits
section), then select a sample size of about 30% from each of the
included 12 barangays
