OLONITE SAMPLING TECHNIQUE AND TARO YAMANE SAMPLING METHOD: THE PARADIGM SHIFT

The Olonite Sampling Technique is a sampling method that is used for small and large population. It was developed as a solution to the short comings of the Taro Yamane Sampling Technique. OST ranges 
from “1 – 1,280,000,000 (one - one billion two hundred and eighty million) population” and 1 - 59,500, having two (2) categories with five (5) versions each. OST asserts that for some set of levels of significance, a particular category and version of sampling formulae should be adopted; level of  significance 0.15, 0.1, 0.05, 0.2, 0.01, 0.002 and 0.001 should focus on the category 1 and use the total population to know the version to be considered. For level of significance 0.4, 0.3, and 0.2, the category
2 should be considered and the total population should be used to determine the version to be considered. The Olonite Sampling Technique supports the 2/3 rule to a logical extent. Taro Yamane Sampling Method can only be used for populations below “four hundred (400)” and using Taro Yamane for a population above 400 might not give us a result closer to reality as the half value will not be attained using the Taro Yamane Sampling Technique but the Olonite Sampling Technique.