Sampling Designs in Qualitative Research: Making the Sampling Process More Public

Authors

Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Sam Houston State UniversityFollow
Nancy L. Leech, University of Colorado

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide a typology of sampling designs for qualitative researchers. We introduce the following sampling strategies: (a) parallel sampling designs, which represent a body of sampling strategies that facilitate credible comparisons of two or more different subgroups that are extracted from the same levels of study; (b) nested sampling designs, which are sampling strategies that facilitate credible comparisons of two or more members of the same subgroup, wherein one or more members of the subgroup represent a sub-sample of the full sample; and (c) multilevel sampling designs, which represent sampling strategies that facilitate credible comparisons of two or more subgroups that are extracted from different levels of study.

Keywords

Qualitative Research, Sampling Designs, Random Sampling, Purposive Sampling, and Sample Size

Publication Date

6-1-2007

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2007.1636

Recommended APA Citation

Onwuegbuzie, A. J., & Leech, N. L. (2007). Sampling Designs in Qualitative Research: Making the Sampling Process More Public. The Qualitative Report, 12(2), 238-254. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2007.1636