You are interested in studying friendship between older adults in retirement settings. You are interested in independent older adults, so you select a local retirement community as the site for locating participants because it is advertised as an independent living community with an active social program and many public spaces. What kind of sampling are you using?
a. convenience sampling
b. purposive sampling
c. snowball sampling
d. systematic sampling
Answer b
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