How You Sample Determines What You Find: Investigating Bias in Parliamentary Data Sampling Methods.

This study addresses the issue of sampling error within research on subsets of parliamentary text corpora. Two samples of parliamentary speeches relating to the marketisation of the Swedish education system, drawn through different sampling techniques, are analysed and compared. The analyses find th...

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Publicado en:Brown Journal of Medical Humanities pp. 79 - 90
Autores principales: Karlsson, Martin, Borgström, Eric, Lundahl, Christian
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Brown Journal of Medical Humanities Spring2025
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          Karlsson, Martin
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        Sampling errors
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      ab: This study addresses the issue of sampling error within research on subsets of parliamentary text corpora. Two samples of parliamentary speeches relating to the marketisation of the Swedish education system, drawn through different sampling techniques, are analysed and compared. The analyses find that diverging sampling methodologies can be complementary as each method adds substantial quantities of unique documents to the dataset. Further, the diverging sampling methodologies employed produce documents with similar semantic content. However, analyses of the distribution of speeches between party affiliations and speakers indicate vast differences between the two samples. These results indicate that sampling frames can substantially influence the findings of parliamentary text analyses. We conclude that combining different sampling techniques can be a way to reduce the risk of sampling error, which in turn can have a strong influence on the conclusions drawn from analyses of parliamentary texts.
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