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Respondents were selected by the non-probabilistic "quota" method, which consists of questioning a sample of people with the same socio-demographic characteristics as the whole population.
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Unemployment data are collected each trimester through questioning a wide representative sample of the Spanish population about their employment situation during the past weeks.
Police are questioning a person of interest.
Sheffield United manager David Weir told BBC Radio Sheffield: "It was disappointing, frustrating and we're questioning a lot of things, questioning ourselves.
In the US-TAP study, Gitlin et al. [ 28] demonstrated reduction in the overall incidence of BPSD and specific behaviors such as shadowing, agitation, argumentation, and repetitive questioning in a sample with 60 dyads.
There are some key events that can initiate a process of questioning or a reorganization of routines [33].
The Sofres panel was expected to meet the objective of being representative of the French population and therefore by questioning on their medical treatment to get a sample representative of French patients treated for OHT / POAG.
The candidates faced an hour of questioning from a panel of journalists in the capital, Canberra.
Against all odds, Kidron's uninformed line of questioning (sample inquiry: "If the internet were like a subway map, how many stops would it have?") does occasionally prompt a thoughtful response from one of her more knowledgable interviewees, often on a genuinely far-reaching issue like the market dominance of search-engine giant Google.
After questioning whether eHarmony was drawing from a biased sample of people unlikely to divorce, especially since the service famously rejects people who aren't compatible with their existing members, the eHarmony researcher argued that they do, indeed, have a representative sample of the U.S.. Additionally, the study controlled for important demographic characteristics.
The fact is, though, choosing a representative sample of people, contacting them, questioning and measuring them, then analyzing the results, is a difficult logistical challenge.
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