Homeless Personnel in Virginia Homeless Population Research

HOMELESS POPULATION RESEARCH

Homeless Population Research: Homeless Personnel in Virginia

There are a number of challenges that one could encounter in the course of sampling homeless personnel in Virginia. The two challenges that will be addressed on this front relate to; i) selection of a representative sample and ii) obtaining an ideal sample size.

Selection of a Representative Sample Size

From the onset, it would be prudent to note that as Creswell (2014) points out, an ideal sample ought to be representative of the whole study population. It therefore follows that in the absence of a representative sample, data validity and reliability could be impacted negatively. In seeking to reign in this particular challenge, I would make use of the most ideal sampling method for the research study in question. Given that the present study seeks to focus on homeless personnel in Virginia, the most ideal sampling method would be simple random sampling – which happens to be a probability sampling method. In the words of Creswell (2014), “in this case each individual is chosen entirely by chance and each member of the population has an equal chance, or probability, of being selected” (78).

Optimal Sample Size