Online Survey Method and Sampling

Online Survey Method and Sampling

            In this survey, the selected questionnaire method is self completion questionnaire, where a survey questionnaire is provided to the respondent so that he/she may complete it and return back. As this survey is online, so questionnaire type used is called computer assisted self interviewing. It is a sample survey, where the data is being collected from a sample of a population.

The chosen sample is related to those boxers, who are amateur. Keeping this fact in view, I am using Purposive sampling for this online survey. It is a kind of sampling, where researcher determines that which kind of samples will be chosen from a population to participate in the research study. So, purposive sampling was used for this online survey, and questionnaire was based on sample survey method. (Maeo, 2018)

            The purposive sampling along with sample survey was used for the questionnaire for online due to various reasons. The most important reason was that here I am not generalizing any research findings for the whole or general population. If whole population would have been chosen, then census survey and relevant sampling would have been used. The purposive sampling was chosen, because I wanted to inquire the opinion of a group from whole population.

            The selected group is based on amateur boxers, and the purpose is to know about their precautions against unintentional doping while using health supplements. If group from the population would not been specified then I could have used simple random sampling. It shows that purpose sampling was used with sample survey method to specify the research to group of amateur boxers only. (Smartsurvey.co.uk, 2018)

            There are various advantages & disadvantages of purposive sampling. The first great thing about purposive sampling is that it is time effective as well as cost effective method. When limited numbers of respondents with a specific group are being studies, then it is the best sampling method. The purposive sampling is targeted at small number of respondents, so burden for the researcher is less to find out results. However, purposive sampling method has the disadvantage that its results cannot be generalized of whole population because only a group can be taken in such method.

It may also include the bias of the researchers as well. The accuracy cannot be measured by this kind of sampling method. It is a fact that qualitative research can have bias from the researcher, but I would like to avoid any bias by making sure that results are reviewed by the participants, and findings will also be reviewed with peers. Such practices will allow me to eliminate any kind of bias in finalizing the survey findings for amateur boxers. (Usability.gov, 2018)

 References of Online Survey Method and Sampling

Maeo, S. (2018). Online Surveys. Retrieved from https://explorable.com/online-surveys

Smartsurvey.co.uk. (2018). 6 steps to conduct an online survey . Retrieved from https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/articles/6-steps-to-conducting-an-online-survey

Usability.gov. (2018, November 22). Online Surveys. Retrieved from https://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/methods/online-surveys.html