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Understanding American Agriculture: Challenges for the Agricultural Resource Management Survey

In this chapter, the panel considers issues of design and development of key methodological aspects of the Agricultural Resources Management Survey (ARMS), focusing on the sample frame for ARMS, the ...
Pew Research Center

Advances in Telephone Survey Sampling

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 ...
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Small Populations, Large Effects: Improving the Measurement of the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey

The sampling frame for the American Community Survey (ACS) is based on the Master Address File (MAF), which is the Census Bureau’s inventory of known housing units, group quarters (GQ), transitory ...
Pew Research Center

U.S. Survey Methodology

A typical Pew Research Center national survey – regardless of mode – is designed and implemented with a total survey error approach in mind, aimed at minimizing ...
Simon Fraser University

PPS Systematic Sampling

If you specify the option METHOD=PPS_SYS, PROC SURVEYSELECT selects units by systematic random sampling with probability proportional to size. Systematic sampling selects units at a fixed interval ...