A researcher discovers that 40% of the households in City X are single person households and that 60% are husband-wife households. The researcher sends interviewers into the field and tells them to conduct 80 interviews and that 40% of their interviews should be with households that are headed by a single person, and 60% should be with husband-wife households. Since this is all the researcher tells the interviewers, this research uses
a. quota sampling.
b. simple random sampling.
c. accidental sampling.
d. cluster sampling.
e.stratified sampling.
Answer: a. quota sampling.
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