0 having a purpose; done with the aim of achieving a particular thing:
Where cost and convenience were considerations, judgmental or purposive sampling was adopted as well as quota sampling.
Chapters 7 and 9 describe related projects, both qualitative research based on small purposive samples.
These may include material incentives, specific or collective solidary incentives, or purposive incentives.
Their model of explanation was purposive action by an external agent rather than an autonomous mechanical process in the system of nature.
A random sampling in the final phase was ensured, but the element of purposive sampling dominated.
A purposive, non-random, sampling technique was adopted and interviews were carried out during 1998-9.
This reflects the demand that indigenous peoples want to be and are able to be purposive actors.
This language made clear that only direct, purposive, individual acts of discrimination were to be outlawed, and not so-called "statistical discrimination" (inferred from numerical imbalances).
