In another study, quota sampling was used to recruit women from the six main ethnic minority groups in the UK and a white comparison group (Marlow et al, 2009c).
For the survey, the quantitative component of our study, quota sampling took place, recruiting an appropriate number (quota) in each category of health staff, maintaining a proportional representation of health staff in the sample.
Patient selection was random and sequential, and continued until the study quotas indicated above were met.
At Radcliffe, she is working on a comparative study of quota adoption and non-adoption in East Asia, and instead of examining each country's experience within its own political context, she is exploring the dynamics of quota politics from a regional historical and political perspective.
However, the study used quota sampling, hence caution must be exercised when generalising the findings to the wider ethnic minority population.
This volume begins with an introduction to gender quotas, including discussion of the types and merits of gender quotas, alternative approaches to the study of quotas, and their interactions with different kinds of electoral systems.
At each study site quotas were set so that at least one patient whose most recent attack was abdominal, cutaneous and laryngeal respectively were targeted for recruitment.
Additionally, although the study used quotas to ensure equality of the target characteristics (gender, age and socioeconomic group), different individuals were interviewed at each time point.
We studied a quota sample of 18 patients, stratified by gender, ethnicity and disease duration (early RA diagnosis (< 2 years) receiving combinations of DMARDs; or established RA (>2 years) receiving either combinations of DMARDs or TNF inhibitors combined with methotrexate, or an alternative DMARDs, based on the Rheumatology outpatient clinic population (see Table 1).
The study of board quotas in Norway can be found here.
Told about the quotas, study sections began "punishing the young investigators with bad scores," says Zerhouni.
