Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter, 1986), pp. 477-491 (15 pages) In this paper several considerations are discussed that developed out of the sampling program for the Chevelon ...

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 ...

For our Spring 2020 survey: The Marketplace-Edison Research Survey is a national survey of Americans 18 and older. A total of 1,018 respondents were interviewed, with 500 interviews conducted by ...

Official household surveys are important sources of information: they support policy and decision-making for a wide range of government programs. The uses of household survey data are broad, from ...

Calibration is commonly used in survey sampling to include auxiliary information at the estimation stage of a population parameter. Calibrating the observation weights on population means (totals) of ...

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 ...