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Sampling In Qualitative Research

It is a study based on the researcher's databases based on credible, reliable and valid information.

It is not probabilistic

It does not generalize result

It fits at any time of the project

Of volunteers, experts, homogeneous, confirmatory, for convenience.

Initial immersion

The selection of the sample group of people, events, events, communities.

Collection and analysis

Understanding of the phenomenon

Nature of the phenomenon

Different samples: You want to show different perspectives and represent the complexity of the phenomenon.

Homogeneous samples: These are samples with the same profile, or similar features.

Sample by networks: These are samples taken from respondents' referrals.

Sample of extreme cases: They are used for the identification of highly strange phenomena and characterized by groups.

Sample by opportunity: These are fortuitous cases presented at the best moment of the investigation.

Conceptual samples: They are of the researcher's use since they present positive attributes for the project.

Confirmatory samples: Are those that the data is true but that at some point is blocked and point to other options.

Samples for convenience: They are those to which the researcher's access is high, so he finds information easily.