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Answers to the sampling task (28 Feb 14)

An essential way to learn what people think of your service at the very best time - just after they use it


I wrote to you on Tuesday with a sampling problem for you to think about.

If you missed it here it is again. 

It concerns how you draw a sample when you don’t have the luxury of being able to select every nth person on a list. This happens when you want to survey people as they visit an area office or at…

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