Official household surveys are important sources of information: they support policy and decision-making for a wide range of government programs. The uses of household survey data are broad, from ...

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 ...

Training of survey teams is fundamental for the quality of the survey information collected and preparation for the training and survey will take time. The training for the full UNHCR SENS (i.e. all 7 ...

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 ...

Survey sampling and estimation methods form the cornerstone of modern statistical inference, underpinning research across the social, medical, and natural sciences. At their heart, these methods ...

Pew Research Center’s cross-national studies are fielded in a range of polling environments, from countries where telephone surveys are regularly administered to nations where face-to-face surveys 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 ...

The paper provides details of, and the background to, some of the results and policy implications of the ESRC/DTI survey into the extent and nature of management training. The main focus of the paper ...

MARINE CORPS TRAINING AREA, Bellows -- When it comes to handling chemical and biological compounds, there's zero room for error, making realistic training exercises -- like the one conducted here in ...