In the days to come, we should expect more polls to be reported so I thought it would be best to discuss more closely the Philippines’ survey scene. In this first of a three-part series, I describe ...

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 ...

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 Survey Research Center (SRC) at the University of Michigan is a well-known survey research entity. In the 1960s, it boasted one of the best survey sampling experts (Leslie Kish) and a permanent ...

Results for the general public survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International among a nationwide sample of 2,001 adults, ...

The main types of non-response are no contact and refusal. In Chapter 2, we discuss some theories for these types of non-response. In addition, we present an overview of the characteristics associated ...

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 ...

The National Sample Survey, under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, has been conducting large-scale sample surveys on All-India basis since the 1950s. These surveys are the most ...

The National Sample Survey (NSS), since its beginning in 1950 by launch of the first round of Household Consumption Expenditure Survey and other allied indicators, has for the last 75 years quietly ...

The backing of the Indian state and the NSS team’s commitment to excellence both played a part in making it a role model for other countries. At an event to commemorate 50 years of the National Sample ...

The first part of this three-part series described the science behind sample surveys. This next part identifies several opinion poll outfits and the people leading these firms, and then describes ...