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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

Probability-based panel: This refers to a national survey panel recruited using random sampling from a database that includes most people in the population. Today, most such panels in the United ...

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 ...

The statistics ministry is likely to start releasing the monthly Periodic Labour Force Survey-Urban (PLFS-Urban), from January 2025, as it aims to increase the frequency of employment-related data ...