Tambra Needs to Make Sure That She Has a Representative

Multiple Choice

Tambra needs to make sure that she has a representative sample for her master's thesis. She needs to ensure that her sample matches the national consensus data on gender and ethnicity for the local area. She needs 60% females and 45% White participants to appropriately represent these groups in her data. She is interested in which type of sampling procedure?

A) cluster sampling
B) area probability sampling
C) simple random sampling
D) stratified random sampling