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 ...

Survey sampling and estimation methods form the cornerstone of modern statistical inference, underpinning research across the social, medical, and natural sciences. At their heart, these methods ...

Targeting matters most. Surveying the wrong audience can lead to misleading data and poor decisions, even if the questions themselves are solid. Weighting shapes reality. Overrepresenting certain ...

The Survey Research Center (SRC) at the University of Michigan is a well-known survey research entity. In the 1960s, it boasted one of the best survey sampling experts (Leslie Kish) and a permanent ...

The data in this report are based on two independent survey administrations with the same randomly selected, nationally representative group of respondents. The first is the center’s largest survey on ...

Millions of businesses rely on customer surveys to learn more about their customer base, their products, and their options for the future. Aspiring entrepreneurs use them for initial market research ...

The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique Some recent works on estimation in survey sampling are analyzed and extended from the perspective of the theory of optimal ...

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