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Emerging Themes in Epidemiology BioMed Central Methodology Open Access Precision, time, and cost: a comparison of three sampling designs in an emergency setting 1 1,2 1 Megan Deitchler* , Hedwig Deconinck and Gilles Bergeron Address: 1Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) Project, Academy for Educational Development (AED), 1825 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20009, USA and 2Formerly with Children in Emergencies and Crisis (CEC), Save the Children (SC)/US, Suite 500, 2000 M St. NW, Washington, DC, 20036, USA Email: Megan Deitchler* - mdeitchl@; Hedwig Deconinck - hdeconinck@; Gilles Bergeron - gbergero@ * Corresponding author Published: 2 May 2008 Received: 19 July 2007 Accepted: 2 May 2008 Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008, 5:6 doi:10.1186/1742-7622-5-6 This article is available from: /content/5/1/6 © 2008 Deitchler et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The conventional method to collect data on the health, nutrition, and food security status of a population affected by an emergency is a 30 × 30 cluster survey. This sampling method can be time and resource intensive and, accordingly, may n