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 ...

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 ...

One possible explanation for the variability in estimates across the different nonprobability samples is the range of methods that online sample vendors employ. They differ on recruitment, weighting ...

The SURVEYSELECT procedure provides a variety of methods for selecting probability-based random samples. The procedure can select a simple random sample or a sample according to a complex multistage ...

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 ...