Olonite Sampling Technique and Taro Yamane Sampling Method: The Paradigm Shift (2024)

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Oluyemi Ayodele OLONITE

Department of Accounting, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Abuja, P.M.B 117, FCT-Abuja, Nigeria

Abstract

The Olonite Sampling Technique is a sampling method that is used for small and large population. It was developed as a solution to the short comings of the Taro Yamane Sampling Technique. OST ranges from '1 – 1,280,000,000 (one - one billion two hundred and eighty million) population' and 1 - 59,500, having two (2) categories with five (5) versions each. OST asserts that for some set of levels of significance, a particular category and version of sampling formulae should be adopted; level of significance 0.15, 0.1, 0.05, 0.2, 0.01, 0.002 and 0.001 should focus on the category 1 and use the total population to know the version to be considered. For level of significance 0.4, 0.3, and 0.2, the category 2 should be considered and the total population should be used to determine the version to be considered. The Olonite Sampling Technique supports the 2/3 rule to a logical extent. Taro Yamane Sampling Method can only be used for populations below 'four hundred (400)' and using Taro Yamane for a population above 400 might not give us a result closer to reality as the half value will not be attained using the Taro Yamane Sampling Technique but the Olonite Sampling Technique.

OLONITE, Oluyemi Ayodele, Olonite Sampling Technique and Taro Yamane Sampling Method: The Paradigm Shift (July 1, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3994018 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3994018