Abstract
Suppose that a local school superintendent asked you to take a random sample of 5 of an elementary school’s 32 teachers using Excel so that you could interview these five teachers about their job satisfaction at their school.
To do that, you need to define a “sampling frame.” A sampling frame is a list of people from which you want to select a random sample. This frame starts with the identification code (ID) of the number 1 that is assigned to the name of the first teacher in your list of 32 teachers in this school. The second teacher has a code number of 2, the third a code number of 3, and so forth until the last teacher has a code number of 32.
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Quirk, T.J. (2012). Random Number Generator. In: Excel 2010 for Social Science Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3637-9_2
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