A new paper in the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that the methods researchers use to report on analyses of survey data vary widely and ...

The test of independence of row and column variables in a (J × K) contingency table is a widely used statistical test in many areas of application. For complex survey samples, use of the standard ...

At an event to commemorate 50 years of the National Sample Survey (NSS) in 2001, the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee noted that these surveys had contributed “invaluable raw material" to ...

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has started mapping all the service establishments across the country to get better sense of this segment of the economy. The establishment-focussed survey on ...

The SURVEYMEANS and SURVEYREG procedures perform statistical analysis for survey data. These analytical procedures take into account the design used to select the sample. The sample design can be a ...

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 ...

To select a sample with PROC SURVEYSELECT, you input a SAS data set that contains the sampling frame, or list of units from which the sample is to be selected. You also specify the selection method, ...

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 ...

Access to safe and clean water and sanitation are internationally recognized human rights as they have great implications on the state of public health and economic growth in a country. Nationally, ...