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 ...

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 ...

By Courtney Kennedy, Andrew Mercer, Scott Keeter, Nick Hatley, Kyley McGeeney and Alejandra Gimenez As the costs and nonresponse rates of traditional, probability-based surveys seem to grow each year, ...

Surveys are a popular tool for collecting feedback from donors and program participants. Inexpensive and easy to send, they’re a visible way to engage constituents and signal an openness to outside ...

Focusing on customers is critical to any business and, oftentimes, a manager’s compensation is based on improving customer satisfaction. But how do you make sure that you are truly measuring ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), Vol. 147, No. 2, The 150th Anniversary of the Royal Statistical Society (1984), pp. 208-221 (14 pages) Developments since 1976 are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Worried at the increasing incidence of nerve disorders among Calcuttans, with hardly any data to provide a research backbone, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has embarked upon a random ...

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 ...