In selecting and recruiting participants for a focus group on a city's effort to build bike paths, a researcher decides that the participants must be over the age of 18 and bike to work. The researcher has stated:
A) Inclusion criteria
B) Exclusion criteria
C) Sampling criteria
D) Interview criteria

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Inclusion criteria are the characteristics that participants must have to be included in a study, such as being over 18 and biking to work in this case.

In Selecting and Recruiting Participants for a Focus Group on a City's