Ferguson et al. (2012) located homeless young adults by working with “agencies providing services to homeless youths” in five different U.S. cities (389). Let’s imagine that they obtained from each agency a list of all the homeless youth they serve and that Ferguson et al. then selected youth to interview from those lists. What would be the term for these lists?
a. sampling frame
b. population
c. elements
d. representative sample
e. census