Quota sampling was developed in the late 1930s and used extensively by the Gallup organization. Babbie (1979) describes the steps involved in developing a quota sample.

Quota sampling was developed in the late 1930s and used extensively by the Gallup organization. Babbie (1979) describes the steps involved in developing a quota sample.

All of the following are out of those steps EXCEPT:
A . Develop a matrix describing the characteristics of the target population. This may entail knowing the proportion of male and female; various age, racial and ethnic proportions; as well as the education and income levels of the population
B . Once the matrix has been created and a relative proportion assigned to each cell in the matrix, data are collected from persons having all the characteristics of a given cell
C . All persons in a given cell are then assigned a weight appropriate to their proportion of the total
D . When all the sample elements are so weighted, the overall data should provide a reasonable representation of the majority of the samples

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Answer: D