A data collecting polling agency gathers data by calling the first phone number on every page...

A data collecting polling agency gathers data by calling the first phone number on every page on yellow pages (a phone book). Which sampling technique is this?

Convenience sampling c. Systematic sampling
Judgement sampling d. Simple random sampling

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Answer:

Judgment sampling

Explanation:

...because the sample observations are selected by using some specific interval of one page of yellow pages phone book, but first observations is not selected randomly, so it is a judgement sampling. If sample observations are selected by keeping systematically fix interval, then this sampling is called as systematic sampling.

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