The human resources department at a major high tech company plans to conduct an employee satisfaction study by sampling 100 employees from the 3,000 total employees. They plan to use systematic random sampling since the employee file is in alphabetic order. The first employee selected in the study should be:
A) the 30th employee.
B) employee 1 to 30 randomly selected.
C) employee 1 to 100 randomly selected.
D) the first employee.

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

In systematic random sampling, the first unit is selected randomly from the first interval (in this case, 1 to 30, since 3000/100 = 30), and then every 30th employee thereafter is selected to make up the sample of 100 employees.

The Human Resources Department at a Major High Tech Company