The scenario described is an example of:
c. snowball sampling.
This method is used when researchers rely on participants to help them find other participants, which is typical in populations that are hard to access, such as street children.
A social worker wants to investigate the phenomenon of resilience among street children who are accommodated in shelters or places of safety. She identifies three street children in Bloemfontein who dropped in at a NGO shelter and asks them to introduce her to other street children who also drops in at the shelter from time to time. This is an example of:
a.
systematic random sampling.
b.
stratified random sampling.
c.
snowball sampling.
d.
cluster sampling.
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