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Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey: Interim Report

The sampling frame for the American Community Survey (ACS) is based on the Master Address File (MAF), which is a database maintained by the Census Bureau and used to conduct the decennial census and ...
Simon Fraser University

Design Information for Survey Procedures

Survey sampling is the process of selecting a probability-based sample from a finite population according to a sample design. You then collect data from these selected units and use them to estimate ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Methodological Advances in Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement

Cochran (1977) outlines eleven steps in the planning of a survey. Good sampling methods must exist in the environment of all of these steps. These steps are (1) a statement of the survey objectives, ...
Pew Research Center

Advances in Telephone Survey Sampling

Note: This report was updated on Dec. 30, 2015 to reflect the January-July 2015 National Health Interview Survey estimates released on December 1, 2015. Telephone surveys face numerous challenges, but ...