Sentence examples for population frames from inspiring English sources

In addition, their administration can be expensive and the representativeness of many Internet population frames is problematic [ 7].

Normally, household surveys often rely on a population frame which contains only registered households.

The population frame comprised 13,004 individuals aged 65 years or over living in five geographic areas of the UK, who were selected from local Family Health Service Authority lists.

In spite of the low response rate for postgraduate trainees, the demographic characteristics of the study sample (n=141) were reflective of the population frame, with the majority of respondents enrolled in family medicine (36%).

The only potential background variable we had for both respondents and non-respondents was place of work affiliation; originally added to the population frame we developed for this study.

The population frame that was sampled was stratified into 32 geographic strata formed as follows: each of the 27 federation unit capital; and five strata comprising the municipalities of each of the five macro-regions of the country.

Full-text English language articles were included if they used population sample frames, cross-sectional design or analysis, and reported prevalence estimates for foot and/or ankle pain in adults aged 45 years and over.

Population sampling frames are used for data collection, which makes the data sets nationally representative.

19 In the UK over 95% of people are registered with general practices, thus providing convenient general population sampling frames.

A common population sampling frame in countries with universal health care is health service registers.

In addition to the statistical concepts of target audience, population, sampling frame and unit of observation (Thompson 2012), this framework introduces the following set of new concepts for better supporting sampling in SE surveys: source of sampling, search unit, search plan and sampling strategy.