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Proportional Multistage Sampling

Proportional multistage sampling is a probability sampling design that selects units across two or more hierarchical stages — for example, regions, then districts, then households — where the number of units drawn at each stage is proportional to the size of each higher-level unit. By weighting selection probabilities to match cluster size, it produces self-weighting samples that closely mirror the population structure and simplify variance estimation.

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Sources

  1. Kish, L. (1965). Survey Sampling. John Wiley & Sons. (Chapters 6–7 on multistage and PPS designs.) ISBN: 978-0471489009
  2. Cochran, W. G. (1977). Sampling Techniques (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. (Chapter 11 on multistage sampling with proportional allocation.) ISBN: 978-0471162407

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