Under What Conditions Would It Be Appropriate to Use a Snowball

question 34

Multiple Choice

Under what conditions would it be appropriate to use a snowball sampling technique?

• A) when the characteristic of interest to the study is a deviant one and only a small number of people who know one another are required
• B) when your questionnaire can be administered in a narrow geographic area
• C) when all you need to do is interview persons from a population where the sampling frame is known
• D) when the researcher absolutely must have a sample that is representative of the population from which it is drawn

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Definitions:

Perfect Complements

Goods that are always consumed together in fixed proportions, where the utility derived from one good enhances the utility derived from the other.

Income Effect

The impact on an individual's or economy's purchasing power from an increase or decrease in income, which subsequently affects the quantity demanded for goods and services.

Substitution Effect

The change in consumption that occurs when a price change for one good causes a consumer to replace that good with a more or less expensive substitute.

Price Change

An alteration in the cost of goods or services in the market.