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Appendix B: Sampling Methodology
Appendix B: Sampling Methodology
Pages 91-100
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The municipal water records were seriously contemplated as a reasonably accurate and up-to-date source of resident sample data. The chief reason for their abandonment was that each residence was listed under the owner's name.
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The fourth source, the city directory, was finally selected for sampling information. According to officials in the City Clerk's Office and in the municipal water company office, the publisher of the directory had canvassed the city during the early part of 1955.
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For example, suppose that the first random number is twenty-five. The investigator counted through the alphabetical list from its beginning, omitting all business establishments and names of individuals living outside the city limits, until he reached the twenty-fifth resident's name.
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The name and sex of each respondent and the approximate location of his dwelling-unit were indicated on the map. An assignment usually included about a half-dozen respondents, all located in a restricted geographical area to minimize travel cost and time between interviews.
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already completed the interview, contact was quickly terminated with an apology, and an explanation to the effe ct that two indivi dual s we re customarily as signed the same list and that the other person had obviously already reached the respondent. art no case clid the supervisors final that an interviewer hac]
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During the planning phase of this study, the investigators seriously considered the po s sibility of contacting re spondents by tele phone before the interview. It was hoped that making an appointment would simplify the task of the interviewer, cut down the number of call-backs, etc.
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When cloaking socio-economic comparisons, we might have found marked differences in the responses of upper versus lowerclas s re spondents . Lower - clas s individuals are generally tho s e who do not have telephones, so that differences observed in the responses might have been attributable to the forewarning rather than to socioe cono colic factor s.
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The re spondent data are accurate with respect to this information in at least the following ways: At approximately ~ 1: 3 0 - 1 1: 45, official center s were attempting to verify Me report. At this time, the fire -truck loudspeaker s gave a short public message which, in effect, told people that an attempt to verify was in progress, and that they thought the report was false.
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Despite the fact that the total number of messages decreases between first and second denials heard, the total number of radio messages increases. Our empirical checks, therefore, indicate that the sample is representative with respect to: education, socio-economic status, flight, rumor dissemination, and denial dissemination.
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