Pew Research Center

Advances in Telephone Survey Sampling

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 ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Small Populations, Large Effects: Improving the Measurement of the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey

The sampling frame for the American Community Survey (ACS) is based on the Master Address File (MAF), which is the Census Bureau’s inventory of known housing units, group quarters (GQ), transitory ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Understanding American Agriculture: Challenges for the Agricultural Resource Management Survey

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 ...
Nature

Respondent-Driven Sampling in Hidden Populations

Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) is a chain-referral methodology designed to estimate characteristics of populations that lack a well-defined sampling frame, often due to stigma, legal constraints or ...
Pew Research Center

Appendix B: National Survey of Latinos Methodology

Results for this study are based on telephone interviews conducted by SSRS, an independent research company, among a nationally representative sample of 1,520 Latino respondents ages 18 and older. It ...
Simon Fraser University

Example 63.3: PPS (Dollar-Unit) Sampling

A small company wants to audit employee travel expenses in an effort to improve the expense reporting procedure and possibly reduce expenses. The company does not have resources to examine all expense ...