A researcher wishes to conduct a questionnaire survey of a representative sample of about 200 households on a small housing estate (which comprises about 1000 houses). He walks down each street on the estate and posts a questionnaire through the letterbox of every fifth house on each street. What method of sampling is this?
a) Systematic sampling
b) Simple random sampling
c) Quota sampling
d) Cluster sampling
a) Systematic sampling
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).