We used a purposive sampling and snowballing approach to obtain maximum variation in perspectives across professions, sector and geography (provinces and territories, rural and urban) [ 14].
We used a purposive sampling and snowballing approach to obtain maximum variation across professions, sector and geography (provinces and territories, rural and urban).
One main reason for this gap is that women are still very rarely represented in certain professions, sectors and on the upper end of the job career ladder.
The exercises with education, professions, sectors, and marital status look at relevant ways to divide the sample and show us that potential self-selection concerns on observables are less severe than one may expect from our data structure.
Although this approach originally focused on specific geographic locations, it later expanded to an interest in interactions or discursive exchanges within particular kinds of professions, sectors and organizations that were not bound to a particular place.
No politicians invite us to improve the delivery of services in the profession or sector in which we work or give us the tools by which to achieve it.
External competition Growing foreign competition can't be ignored: China, for example, has an active policy of trying to promote and support creative professions, say sector leaders like Kershaw.
Many other professions and sectors have had this privilege or responsibility removed.
Key informants were selected for broad representation of professions, practice sectors and geographic variation.
The source population represents various groups such as students (6%), unemployed (3%), individuals on maternity leave (4%) and individuals on sick leave or disability pensioned (2%) and workers in various professions and sectors (47% full time employed).
