Hi, BA Journalism student here. Planning my UG dissertation. I am looking at news content over the course of the Covid pandemic, a year from the first UK death. How many news articles should I plan to analyse? Any help on explaining how to use a constructed week would also be a great help.
Thanks in advance.
Hi, it depends on your research questions. However, fom the point of view of limited time and managing a BA student thesis, 100 to 300 would suffice.
Josh Dyer
The simple random sample procedure and a big sample size must be created in order to minimise sampling error. The standard deviation. The sample size may then be approximated by, Sample Size Required = (z-score or t-value) 1 * StdDev*(2 * StdDev) / (margin of error) 2
To build one week from a population of one month, for example, choose one Sunday from all four Sundays that month, one Monday from all four Mondays, and so on, until each day of the week is represented in the final sample.
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