A Review of the Cluster Survey Sampling Method in Humanitarian Emergencies
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ABSTRACT Obtaining quality data in a timely manner from humanitarian emergencies is inherently difficult. Conditions of war, famine, population displacement, and other humanitarian disasters, cause limitations in the ability to widely survey. These limitations hold the potential to introduce fatal biases into study results. The cluster sample method is the most frequently used technique to draw a representative sample in these types of scenarios. A recent study utilizing the cluster sample method to estimate the number of excess deaths due to the invasion of Iraq has generated much controversy and confusion about this sampling technique. Although subject to certain intrinsic limitations, cluster sampling allows researchers to utilize statistical methods to draw inferences regarding entire populations when data gathering would otherwise be impossible.
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- Authors
- Morris, S. K., & Nguyen, C. K.
- Affiliations
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Mount Sinai Hospital (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Morris, Shaun K.
- ORCID
- Morris, Shaun K.
- Venue
- Public Health Nursing
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2008-07
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 370-374
- ISSN
- 0737-1209 (ISSN-L)
- 1525-1446
- OpenAlex
- W2004177325
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
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- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Public Health Nursing (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Survey Sampling and Estimation Techniques
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health and Conflict Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
- Keywords
- cluster sampling, humanitarian crisis, sampling bias, population displacement, famine
- MeSH terms
- Altruism, Disasters, Humans, Iraq, Mortality, Sampling Studies, Warfare, Selection Bias, Cluster Analysis, Health Care Surveys
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