Multiphase sampling

In general, a sampling is a procedure or technique of selecting a representative part of a

population for the purpose of determining parameters or characteristics of the whole population.
The representative part is defined as sample that will be selected from the whole population.

A multiphase sampling is a sampling procedure in which it collects some information from the
whole unit sample and additional information also is collected, at the same time or by later.
Usually the additional information is collected to provide more detail information about the
sample. The multiphase sampling is known as two-phase sampling where double or more
phase sampling procedures can be done in at the same time or by later. The first sampling is to
collect basic information from a large sample of unit and then followed by the second
sampling collects more about detailed information. This kind of technique can be used as
handful way to resolve the issue of the insufficient budget to collect entire information about the
whole population or even creating an excessive burden toward the respondent to answer the
question.

As instance, there is a situation where a man is responsible to carry out a health survey on
participants regarding some basic question about their diet, smoking habits, exercise routines and
alcohol consumption. Meanwhile, another survey is required to collects detailed information of
the respondent by asking them to perform physical tests such as running on a treadmill or having
their blood pressure and cholesterol level to be measured. By filling out the questionnaires and
interviewing participant is relatively economized procedure. Hence, the best approach to conduct
this survey by approaching this two-phase sampling. In the first phase, the interviews are
performed on an appropriately sized sample. Then a smaller sample is drawn from that sample.
The second sample will be continued in the medical test.