3. THE SAMPLING FRAME
IMS solicited lists of museums from numerous sources. The lists it
obtained included all entries in the 1992 American Association of
Museums Official Museum Directory, all entities listed in IMS's own
data files as having applied to any IMS program since 1984, and 63 other
lists from museum-related associations.
IMS merged the records from these lists into a single sampling frame.
IMS did not include in the sampling frame any list entry that it
determined from inspection of the entry to be an individual, a part of
the U.S. Government, a for-profit organization, or otherwise not within
the definition of a museum, as described in Section.
IMS also did not include in the sampling frame any entry from a list
that it determined to refer to the same organization as an entry already
included in the sampling frame.
IMS removed some entries from the sampling frame due to its
determination, based on information in the Official Museum Directory,
that they were not within the definition of a museum.
The resulting sampling frame consisted of 11,654 records.
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