Next determine the sample proportion which. The total number of people in the group you are trying to study. You can use the formula to calculate a sample size for a confidence level of 99 and margin of error -1 01 using the standard deviation suggestion of05.
Know your population size.
Similarly if you are surveying your company the size of the population is the total number of employees. Each of the shaded tails in the following figure has an area of 0025. Errors are inevitable the question is how much error youll allow. Statistical power is the most commonly used metric for sample size determination.