"random respondents" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a group of people who have been chosen at random to participate in a survey or study. Example: "The results of our survey were based on a sample of 1000 random respondents from across the country."
The poll was taken by TNS Intersearch, an online marketing firm, which added the question to its weekly survey of 1,000 random respondents.
But citing a survey of random respondents conducted by Hobbit studio Warner Bros, Gutierrez said that consumers were likely to be confused by the use of the term into thinking that they were paying to see a movie from the team behind The Lord of the Rings.
Because selection of individuals within households was not random, respondents do not represent the general populations of Kigali and Lusaka.
Materials and methods: We have corrected the indicated errors and have also specified how respondents were selected, including the proportions of practitioner to lay respondents, and key to random respondents.
Choice of respondents: We have now made it clear that there were 3 main focal respondents but that there were 2 other opportunistic random respondents that provided additional information for the study in each forest block, making a total of 9 respondents.
To that end, the set of profiles offered to a respondent is treated as a separate block in the design and a random respondent effect is used in the model because profile ratings from the same respondent are correlated.
After explaining the study to the informant, a household listing was generated of people in the age range of 25 to 74, and a random respondent was selected.
Interviewers used a standardised method to select a random respondent within each household, and obtained verbal informed consent [ 26].
The random digit dialling sample for the parent study was selected from working telephone banks, and a list of all individuals aged between 25 and 74 years within each household was generated in order to select a random respondent.
As we used multistage rather than simple random sampling, respondents tended to be clustered; thus, an adjustment for the sample design of 1.4 was adopted (design effect).
Furthermore, although traditional surveys have the advantage of random allocation, respondents on PRWs offer unsolicited opinions, particularly when they have experienced extremes of care [ 31].
