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 ...

A new paper in the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that the methods researchers use to report on analyses of survey data vary widely and ...

Ramesh Kumar, an investigator or "data warrior" as they are better known to the fraternity, braved sub-zero temperatures in a Himalayan village to gather vital data on rural livelihoods. It is on the ...

The rise of internet polling makes it more feasible to publish estimates for Asian Americans. But these estimates offer a limited view. What does the migration to online polling mean for the country’s ...

This report presents estimates of the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States as of July 2023 and for earlier years. As noted earlier in this report, the estimates presented here ...

On August 28,2025, NASS announced the cancellation of the Farm Labor Survey. The discontinuance was officially posted to the Federal Register on September 3. Countless stakeholders including farmers, ...

The test of independence of row and column variables in a (J × K) contingency table is a widely used statistical test in many areas of application. For complex survey samples, use of the standard ...

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 ...

This study reviews the Census Bureau’s annual economic surveys. Specifically, it examines the design, operations, and products of 11 surveys and makes recommendations to enable them to better answer ...

The Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 4 (Winter 2018), pp. 707-744 (38 pages) Many studies in various countries have found that telephone and internet surveys of probability samples yielded data ...