The survey was conducted by telephone with a national sample of adults (18 years of age or older) living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The results reported here are based on ...

In the days to come, we should expect more polls to be reported so I thought it would be best to discuss more closely the Philippines’ survey scene. In this first of a three-part series, I describe ...

The National Sample Survey, under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, has been conducting large-scale sample surveys on All-India basis since the 1950s. These surveys are the most ...

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 ...

The rise of internet polling makes it more feasible to publish estimates for Asian Americans. But these estimates offer a limited view. What does the migration to online polling mean for the country’s ...

A sample survey has many potential sources of error that generally have a systematic effect on the outcomes. Therefore, many large-scale field experiments are ...

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 ...

To provide the most complete picture possible of developments in the health, medical contacts, lifestyle and preventive behaviour of the Dutch population. Statistics Netherlands has been conducting an ...

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 ...