A National Sample Design

The construction of national survey samples in Canada involves a number of theoretical and practical problems that range well beyond purely statistical considerations. Sample sizes for instance will tend to be large in comparison with those employed in many other nations not for greater accuracy but primarily because of the sheer diversity and geographical dispersion of the Canadian population. Likewise, the high cost of survey research at the national level in Canada virtually dictates that substantial efforts be made to achieve an “optimum” design for any single study. The purpose of this note therefore is to outline in brief the several considerations which underlay the design of a national sample for the post-election survey which will be carried out under our direction following the federal election of July 1974. It is offered as a commentary on the steps that were taken to provide a sample design consistent with the research focus of the project. The design has a number of important implications for both primary and secondary analysis of what will be the third national election study to be carried out in Canada. Each of these studies has followed particular theoretical interests, in all cases having important implications for potential use of the data set by other analysts

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• Partisanship and the Parti Québécois

  Harold D Clarke, Harold Clarke•The American Review of Canadian…•1978

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• Federal and Provincial Political Participation in Canada

  Open Access•Mike Burke, Harold D Clarke et al.•Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue…•1978

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• Political powerlessness and sociodemographic status in Canada

  Open Access•Peter R Sinclair•Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue…•1979

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• Occupational mobility in Canada over four generations

  Open Access•John Goyder, James E Curtis•Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue…•1977

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• Question Design, Response Set and the Measurement of Left/Right Thinking in Survey Research

  Open Access•Ronald D Lambert•Canadian Journal of Political…•1983

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• Political Behaviour and the Issue of Majority Government in Two Federal Elections

  Open Access•Lawrence Leduc•Canadian Journal of Political…•1977

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• Motivational Patterns and Differential Participation in a Canadian Party

  Harold D Clarke, Richard Price et al.•American Journal of Political…•1978

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• Some Correlates of Regime Support in Canada

  Open Access•Allan Kornberg, Harold D Clarke et al.•British Journal of Political…•1978

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• Short-term forces and partisan change in Canada

  Open Access•Harold D Clarke, Marianne C Stewart•Electoral Studies•1985

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• Partisan Instability in Canada

  Open Access•Lawrence Leduc, Harold D Clarke et al.•American Political Science Review•1984

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• Ethnicity and class identity

  John C Goyder, John Goyder•Ethnic and Racial Studies•1983

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• A Procedure for Objective Respondent Selection within the Household

  Leslie Kish•Journal of the American…•1949

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• The Register of Electors as a Sampling Frame

  Percy G Gray, Tom Corlett et al.•British Journal of Sociology•1952

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• Survey Methods in Social Investigation

  H Silcock, C A Moser et al.•Population Studies•1958

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• Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences

  Paul Hanly Furfey, Leon Festinger et al.•The American Catholic Sociological…•1954

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• Sampling Methods for Censuses and Surveys

  Malcolm J Proudfoot, Frank Yates•Economic Geography•1950

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