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Snowball Sampling Procedure For Homeless Individuals

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The sampling procedure that I would use when interviewing homeless individuals would be snowball sampling. As for the sampling procedure I would use when interviewing key leaders from local health care agencies would be purposive sampling. When using snowball sampling I would draw my samples by identifying a homeless individual, maybe I would ask someone who knows of a homeless individual who would want to speak with me and then I would ask that first person to identify other homeless individuals who would be interested in speaking with me and so on. When using purposive sampling I would draw my samples by purposively picking people who relate to my topic of interest, which is access to healthcare. Therefore when drawing my sample I would only

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