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Essential Methods for Design Based Sample Surveys

by: Pfeffermann; Rao

Essential Methods for Design Based Sample Surveys

by: Pfeffermann; Rao

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9780444537348
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0444537341
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Copyright: 12/30/2010
Publisher: Elsevier Science

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Essential Methods for Design Based Sample Surveys presents key method contributions selected from the volume in the Handbook of Statistics: Sample Surveys: Design, Methods and Applications, Vol. 29a (2009). This essential reference provides specific aspects of sample survey design, with references to important contributions and available software. The content is aimed at researchers and practitioners who use statistical methods in design based sample surveys and market research. This book presents the core essential methods of sample selection and data processing. The data processing discussion covers editing and imputation, and methods of disclosure control. This reference contains a large variety of applications in specialized areas such as household and business surveys, marketing research, opinion polls and censuses. Delivers a thorough overview of the methods of statistical sample survey design in a wide range of applications Provides a one-stop review of modern methods in statistical sample survey design Presents essential statistics methods of sample selection and data processing

List of Contributors	p. ix
Introduction to Survey Sampling	p. 1
Two alternative approaches to survey sampling inference	p. 1
Historical approaches to survey sampling inference	p. 5
Some common sampling strategies	p. 13
Conclusion	p. 29
Designs for Surveys over Time	p. 31
Introduction	p. 31
Repeated surveys	p. 33
Rotating panel surveys	p. 36
Panel surveys	p. 39
Conclusions	p. 50
Design, Conduct, and Analysis of Random-Digit Dialing Surveys	p. 51
Introduction	p. 51
Design of RDD surveys	p. 52
Conduct of RDD surveys	p. 60
Analysis of RDD surveys	p. 72
Statistical Disclosure Control for Survey Data	p. 81
Introduction	p. 81
Tabular outputs	p. 84
Microdata	p. 88
Conclusion	p. 96
Sampling and Estimation in Household Surveys	p. 97
Introduction	p. 97
Survey designs	p. 98
Repeated household surveys	p. 105
Data collection	p. 115
Weighting and estimation	p. 117
Nonsampling errors in household surveys	p. 125
Integration of household surveys	p. 126
Survey redesign	p. 128
Conclusion	p. 128
Sampling and Estimation in Business Surveys	p. 131
Introduction	p. 131
Sampling frames for business surveys	p. 132
Administrative data	p. 136
Sample size determination and allocation	p. 140
Sample selection and rotation	p. 147
Data editing and imputation	p. 150
Estimation	p. 157
Sampling, Data Collection, and Estimation in Agricultural Surveys	p. 161
Introduction	p. 161
Sampling	p. 163
Data collection	p. 170
Statistical estimation	p. 172
Confidentiality	p. 175
Concluding remarks	p. 175
Sampling and Inference in Environmental Surveys	p. 177
Introduction	p. 177
Sampling populations in space	p. 179
Defining sample frames for environmental populations	p. 180
Designs for probability-based environmental samples	p. 182
Using ancillary information in design	p. 190
Inference for probability-based design	p. 192
Model-based optimal spatial designs	p. 193
Plot design issues	p. 196
Sources of error in environmental studies	p. 198
Conclusions	p. 202
Survey Sampling Methods in Marketing Research: A Review of Telephone, Mall Intercept, Panel, and Web Surveys	p. 203
Introduction	p. 203
Telephone surveys	p. 207
Fax surveys	p. 217
Shopping center sampling and interviewing	p. 217
Consumer panels	p. 219
Web surveys	p. 224
Conclusion	p. 228
Sample Surveys and Censuses	p. 229
Introduction	p. 229
The use of sample surveys for estimating coverage errors	p. 231
The use of sample surveys to evaluate statistical adjustment of census counts	p. 242
The use of sample surveys for carrying out a census	p. 248
Sample surveys carried out in conjunction with a census	p. 252
Concluding remarks	p. 254
Opinion and Election Polls	p. 257
Introduction: the reasons for public opinion and election polling	p. 257
General methodological issues in public opinion and election polls	p. 265
Preelection polling: methods, impact, and current issues	p. 270
Exit polling	p. 274
Postelection and between-election polls	p. 278
Other opinion measurements: focus groups, deliberative polls, and the effect of political events	p. 278
Present and future challenges in polling	p. 280
Continued interest in public opinion and polling	p. 284
Index	p. 287
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