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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...