Following field testing, three
quota samples of 90 were used for each of the three roles.
In the Wilson & Cairns (in press) study a
quota sample of residents from Enniskillen (who responded anonymously) were compared, some 8 months after the bomb-blast, to residents of a nearby less-violent town (Lowtown) in percepts of violence, coping behaviour and levels of psychological disorder.
This presumably influenced the choice of a research design consisting of a non-random
quota sample and employing semi structured interviews with 168 men and women who had quit high school in Edmonton during 1984-85.
The GSS in the early days was a
quota sample: quota sampling is the irresistible norm in France even today.