A new paper in the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that the methods researchers use to report on analyses of survey data vary widely and ...

The National Sample Survey (NSS), since its beginning in 1950 by launch of the first round of Household Consumption Expenditure Survey and other allied indicators, has for the last 75 years quietly ...

Ramesh Kumar, an investigator or "data warrior" as they are better known to the fraternity, braved sub-zero temperatures in a Himalayan village to gather vital data on rural livelihoods. It is on the ...

Wondering how many people in the United States have a smartphone? If you poll 20 people on the street, your survey won’t be representative of the entire American population. But if you just want to ...

The test of independence of row and column variables in a (J × K) contingency table is a widely used statistical test in many areas of application. For complex survey samples, use of the standard ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. (Related posts: Introducing pewmethods: An R package for working with survey ...

THE need for adequate statistics relating to our agricultural resources and requirements must have become obvious to all during the last few years, for the urgency of war problems has served to direct ...

Survey work is a series of complex processes. At the outset, there is sample and questionnaire design, as well as field training. During the data collection stage, there is monitoring and remedial ...

The Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 4 (Winter 2018), pp. 707-744 (38 pages) Many studies in various countries have found that telephone and internet surveys of probability samples yielded data ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Knowing who voted is critical to developing an accurate understanding of an ...