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 ...

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 ...

About Pew Research Center’s Spring 2025 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on a mix of telephone, face-to-face and online interviews ...

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 SURVEYSELECT procedure provides a variety of methods for selecting probability-based random samples. The procedure can select a simple random sample or a sample according to a complex multistage ...

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 ...

Until earlier this year, Professor Ryan was a member of the Methodology Advisory Committee for the Australian Bureau of Statistics. She receives funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the ...

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 ...

In this chapter, the panel considers issues of design and development of key methodological aspects of the Agricultural Resources Management Survey (ARMS), focusing on the sample frame for ARMS, the ...

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 ...