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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