Why do pollsters make such a big deal about probability sampling? You'd think that choosing people to interview should be easy. Take three of these, four of those, and two of the other. But it's not.

The nuts and bolts of our public opinion surveys. A summary of ABC News' polling standards and survey methodology follows. ABC News maintains standards for disclosure, validity, reliability and ...

Mark Blumenthal and Natalie Jackson of Huffpost Pollster write: If you read polls in the news, you’re probably familiar with the term “margin of error.” What ...

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, ...

PROC SURVEYSELECT provides a variety of methods for selecting probability-based random samples. With probability sampling, each unit in the survey population has a known, positive probablity of ...

The analysis in this report is based on a survey conducted August 7-14, 2013 among a sample of 1,052 adults, 18 years of age or older. The survey was conducted by the GfK Group using KnowledgePanel, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper deals with two schemes, π-inverse weights and best linear unbiased weights, for weighting of observations drawn by unequal ...

Greg DePersio has 13+ years of professional experience in sales and SEO and 3+ years as a writer and editor. Simple random sampling is a method used to cull a smaller sample size from a larger ...