Hi people. Pls I need your urgent help here. Am doing a research work and in my chapter 3 which is my research methodology, I am trying to determine my sample size from a population of 18,000,000 people being the estimated population of people in Lagos State. Clearly Yards formular cannot be adopted here. Pls your input would be of great help. Thanks.

oparah chi: Hi people. Pls I need your urgent help here. Am doing a research work and in my chapter 3 which is my research methodology, I am trying to determine my sample size from a population of 18,000,000 people being the estimated population of people in Lagos State. Clearly Yards formular cannot be adopted here. Pls your input would be of great help. Thanks.

A random sample method. Divide the entire population to a moderate size and select a specific figure from each category to arrive at a conclusion.

u can use a multi-stage probability sampling by braking down the population into different strata and carry out ur survey not difficult to do..