Problem 1: What are the following terms: population; sample; sample elements; sampling frame; sampling units? How would you apply those terms to a study on housing insecurity in Miami's Little Haiti?
Problem 2: What are the following terms: sample generalizability; target population; representative sample; unrepresentative sample? How would you apply those terms to a study on housing insecurity in Miami's Little Haiti?
Problem 3: What is a census? How is it different from a sample survey? Why is it rarely used in collecting data from a large population? Describe the difference between a census and a sample survey in a study on households in Little Haiti.
Problem 4: What are the following terms: probability sampling; probability of selection; random sampling; simple random sampling; systematic random sampling; cluster sampling; stratified sampling? How would you apply those terms to a study on households in Little Haiti?
Problem 5: What is sampling bias? What are its sources? Why is it a problem (see also "unrepresentative sample")? Describe an example of sampling bias in a study of households in Little Haiti.
Problem 6: What are the following terms: non-probability sampling; availability (convenience) sampling; quota sampling; purposive sampling; snowball sampling? How would you apply those terms to a study on households in Little Haiti?
Problem 7: What is theoretical sampling (which is a type of non-probability sampling), and when is it used? How would use theoretical sampling in a study on households in Little Haiti.
Problem 8: What is a "research design for time"? How would use a "research design for time" in a study on households in Little Haiti.