Category: Sampling
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Let’s focus on the third leg
Kristin Luck writes a column for RBR and for two issues in a row she's worked the worry beads about what she sees as declining interest in online panel data quality. In the current column Kristin draws heavily on a reaction to her first column by Jackie Lorch. Jackie summarizes two legs of the online…
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Let’s get on with it
I spent some time over the weekend putting the finishing touches on a presentation for later this week in Washington at a workshop being put on by the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council. The workshop is part of a larger effort to develop a new agenda for research into social science…
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Getting straight on response rates
AAPOR's Standard Definitions: Final Dispositions of Case Codes and Outcome Rates for Surveys has long been the bible for survey researchers interested in systematically tracking response and nonresponse in surveys and summarizing those outcomes in standardized ways that help us judge the strengths and weaknesses of survey results. The first edition, published in 1998, built…
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Let’s ban the R word
While working on a paper over the weekend it suddenly hit me that "necessary but not sufficient" is the perfect way to describe the whole array of techniques that have emerged over the last few years in the name of improving panel data quality. Not to be confused with the Goldratt "business novel" (now there's…
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What is Address Based Sampling?
In the previous post I talked about Address Based Sampling. It caused a couple of people to write and ask what I was talking about. There was a similar discussion on AAPORNet which is a closed list, and so I could not simply cross post. Below is an excerpt from the AAPORNet thread. It was…