Supervised learning is, today, the branch of Machine Learning central to most business disruption. The approach relies on having amounts of labeled data large enough to learn functions with the required approximation. However, labeled data may be expensive, to obtain or to construct through a labeling process. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) strives to label accurately data from small amounts of labeled data and the use of unsupervised learning techniques. One labeling technique is label propagation. We use specifically the Consensus rate-based label propagation (CRLP) in this work. A consensus function is central to the propagation. A possible consensus function is a coassociation matrix that estimates the probability of data points i and j belong to the same group. In this work, we observe that the co-association matrix has valuable information embedded in it. When no data is labeled, it is common to choose with a uniform probability randomly, the data to manually label, from which the propagation proceeds. This work addresses the problem of selecting a fixed-size set of data points to label (manually), to improve the label propagation algorithm s accuracy. Three selection techniques, based on stochastic sampling principles, are proposed: Stratified Sampling (SP), Probability (P), and Stratified Sampling - Probability (SSP). They are all based on the information embedded in the co-association matrix. Experiments were carried out on 15 benchmark sets and showed exciting results. Not only because they provide a more balanced selection when compared to a uniform random selection, but also improved the accuracy results of a label propagation method. These strategies were also tested inside an active learning process in a different context, also achieving good results.