aleatory assignment of quotas

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aleatory assignment of quotas

Sebastián Daza
dear,
I write them because I need to assign quotas (sex and age) for a sample in an aleatory way. The format of the database in spss is the following one:

county cluster (zip area) cases for zip area man 18-34 man 35-54 man 55 or more women 18-34 women 35-54 women 55 o more
1 1 5
         
1 2 5
         
1 3 5
         
1 4 5
         
1 5 5
         
1 6 5
         

In each cluster, I need to assign as maximum five interviewed, according to the distribution of the quotas.

Man 18-34 7
Man 35-54 2
Man 55 or more 3
Women 18-34 8
Women 35-54 4
Women 55 o more
6

What I need is that the distribution of the quotas is aleatory, the only condition is that the total of each column (ex. man 18-34) is same to the number of quota (ex. 7) and the each row is same to 5 (total of having interviewed by zip area). An example would be:

county cluster (zip area) cases for zip area man 18-34 man 35-54 man 55 or more women 18-34 women 35-54 women 55 or more
1 1 5 1  0  0  1  2
1 2 5 0
 1  0 ...
...
...
1 3 5 2
 0
   
1 4 5 1
 0  1
   
1 5 5 3
 1  1
   
1 6 5 0
 0  0
   

Does somebody know how it could assign aleatory quotas in spss?  some suggestion of how to distribute the quotas? Thank you for the help.

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Sebastián Daza Aranzaes

Sebastián Daza Aranzaes
Instituto de Sociología UC
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