Surname Sampling: Reevaluating Kim Sampling in Korea and the United States

In 1984, Shin and Yu proposed that sampling Koreans by simply identifying those with the common surname Kim would yield a representative sample, as determined by geographic distribution.Weextend the evidence that individuals with specificcommonsurnames inKorea are representative of the whole population. Wefound that individuals with any of the fivemost common Korean surnames, not just Kim, were…