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• ‘Selecting Your Participants’ provides an overview of key quantitative and qualitative sampling strategies and explores a number of sampling issues and problems.
   
• This is a good general overview of sampling and sampling strategies for both quantitative and qualitative studies.
   
• This deals with the types of sampling bias that can arise in designing and conducting survey research.
   
• This covers five commonly used sampling methods and their advantages/disadvantages.