What Sampling Technique Is a Researcher Using When a Population

question 52

Multiple Choice

What sampling technique is a researcher using when a population is divided into subgroups based on one or more characteristics and a random sample is selected from each group?

• A) simple random sampling
• B) systematic random sampling
• C) cluster sampling
• D) stratified random sampling

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