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 ...

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 ...

In December 2016, NHK introduced a dual frame telephone survey that used mobile phones in addition to conventional land-line phones. This survey method does not weight samples to re-balance the data ...

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 ...

This Paper describes recent work to improve the data matching techniques used in the maintenance of the UK statistical business register. This work has focussed on improving the quality of sampling ...