Corruption Dataset

The sampling technique and procedure used to select the participants for the study was purposive sampling, which is also known as judgmental sampling (Saunders et al., 2016). The rationale for using purposive sampling stemmed from the characteristics of the population and the objective of the study (Saunders et al., 2016).

We decided that, based on the objectives of the research, a sampling frame comprising the students and employees of University of Basra, Iraq, as well as interested digitally savvy citizens in Basra was the most suitable and appropriate. The measured items under consideration were translated into Arabic and inserted into Google Forms as an electronic survey. We invited 20 friends and relatives, using the purposive sampling procedure (Saunders et al., 2016) to fill in the form.