can anyone suggest any article or guide or manual to determine sample size in social science research basically on poverty analysis or quality of life study at micro level.
Sample size is determined on the basis of statistical laws. For example, if one wants to predict voting analysis and asks 1000 people even in a representative sample, the error of measurement is still few %.
If there are many questions with many possible answers, and then one wants to use some regression analysis, a sample should be definitely more than 30-50 people.The more - the better. This is because a cloud of uncertainly can hide potential correlation between variables for too small samples.