SAMPLING FRAMES FOR FARM SURVEYS IN THE U.K.: SOME ALTERNATIVES
研究了英国农场调查中缺乏合适抽样框的问题，评估了以教区为自然集群和电话黄页作为替代抽样框的可行性，发现基于电话黄页的抽样能提供足够准确的总体参数估计。
The lack of a suitable sampling frame can be a major problem facing those who wish to gather information from farm surveys but who do not have access to comprehensive lists of agricultural holdings. This paper considers two alternatives. The feasibility and sampling efficiency of using the natural clusters of farms contained within parishes is first examined using information gained from a survey of farms in the Vale of the White Horse District of Oxfordshire. The same survey also provides an opportunity to evaluate the suitability of ‘Yellow Pages’ Telephone Directories as a sampling frame for farm surveys. It is concluded that surveys based on such a frame will provide estimates of the values of population parameters sufficiently accurate for most purposes.