First Find Your Target

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First Find Your target

By George Head

Who am I?

• George Head• Sample Answers for 4 years • Experienced in Sampling data across the

world.

Agenda• Perfect World

• Niche Accurate Sampling

• Cost Efficiency Vs Being Representative

• Examples

• Conclusion

Perfect World

Everyone in the universe of your project has an equal

chance of getting selected

Therefore the probability is 1 in N

Mass Markets18 to 75 Living in Germany

Sample • RDD Sample (Random Digit dialling) • ER data (listed sample)• Online

Cost Efficiency

Being Representative

RDD

High

Low

Expensive Cheap

Dealing with a Niche

Bayern Munich

Sample • RDD Sample (Random Digit dialling) • ER data (listed sample)• Online

Cost Efficiency

Being Representative

RDD

Trying to find the Niche

Interested in football

Men / Women

Living in Munich

Cost Efficiency

Being Representative

Sampling

Try to find the Niche

Get a list of the Fans.

Bayern Munich Supporters club.

Everyone would qualify.

Cost Efficiency

Being Representative

Fans List

Cost Efficiency

Being Representative

VS

What's the survey all about?

Ticket prices?

“Yeah, they are a bit high”

Cost Efficiency

Being Representative

Sampling

Ticket prices?

Strip design?

What's the survey all about?

“Yeah I quite like it”

Fan List

“It’s a good look”

Cost Efficiency

Being Representative

Fans List

Strip design?

Consider this

Consider your problems.Consider the range of ways of achieving your goal.Consider the BIAS.

If your sample is bias then your results can be misleading and in some cases completely

wrong!

Real life examples

Brazilians in Rural England

Home Projectors

Large Lawns

iPhone

Good sampling MethodIdentify the problem

Who are you looking for?

What the method?

Objects of the survey. The BIAS.

Refine the sampling Approach.

Cost Efficient

Good sampling MethodIdentify the problem

Who are you looking for?

What the method?

Objects of the survey. The BIAS.

Refine the sampling Approach.

Cost Efficient

iPhone

Home Projectors

Large Lawns

High Income, Rural Areas, Luxury Product Ownership, interest in Gardening, Land Rover.

Conclusion

Tell the Sampler what the survey is about.

Consider your options

Remember the results of inaccurate sampling.

If your sample is bias then your results can be misleading and in some cases

completely wrong.

Questions

George Head Sample Answers george@sampleanswers.com

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