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 ...

There was controversy recently over how sound data collection procedures in India are, especially when it comes to some of the important national level surveys. An article (by Shamika Ravi, Member of ...

Survey data in this report are based on Pew Research Center surveys conducted with a nationally representative sample of Hispanics. Differences between groups or subgroups, such as foreign-born and ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Sampling and Estimation." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Reengineering the Census Bureau's Annual Economic Surveys. Washington, DC: The ...

Survey work is a series of complex processes. At the outset, there is sample and questionnaire design, as well as field training. During the data collection stage, there is monitoring and remedial ...

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, ...