EVEN WITHOUT POLITICS, THE CENSUS IS STUPENDOUSLY difficult. Just before April 1 of next year, the Census Bureau will mail about 94 million questionnaires to American households and deliver an ...

Dealing a serious blow to congressional supporters of statistical sampling, a panel of Census Bureau experts Thursday recommended against using the controversial method for producing redistricting ...

Survey researchers increasingly recognize that a single survey of the general public can rarely represent the views of small groups of Americans. Such surveys frequently have too few interviews with ...

11 to 15 November 2019, Frascati, Italy – A total of 30 participants attended the fifth Center for Development Data (C4D2) International Training Week titled “Special Topics and Recent Developments in ...

Historically, public opinion surveys have relied on the ability to adjust their datasets using a core set of demographics – sex, age, race and ethnicity, educational attainment, and geographic region ...

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Vol. 24, No. 1 (March 2019), pp. 26-48 (23 pages) When conducting a national survey or census, administrative data may be available ...

Hans von Spakovsky was an authority on a wide range of issues for Heritage—including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration. The 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) revealed ...

Bounds are presented for the maximal deviation in finite populations between sample and population means in units of (a) the population mean deviation, (b) the population range, and (c) the population ...