Sampling Errors in Socioeconomic Surveys from Rural Settings in Ethiopia
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1994-06
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Addis Ababa University
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In this paper an attempt was made to s tudy sampling errors
from socioeconomic variables of three different areas of Gondar
reg ion under three different sampling techniques . On the basis
of the variances (standard errors) of each of the variables,
design effects and rate of homogeneity values were computed.
Depending on these values of sampling errors the accuracy and
efficiency achieved in different sample designs on qualitative
and quantitative socioeconomic variables were compared. Looking
at the pattern of the sampling errors , out of the three
techniques stratified random sampling was f ound to be highly
superior for both discrete and continuous var i ables , in all of
the three a reas. On the other hand these comput ed values of
sampling errors s howed that for continuous variables , the
performance of Cluster sampling was much better than that of
Simple random sampling.
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Socioeconomic Surveys from Rural Settings in Ethiopia