Discover how to determine the ideal percentage of a population for a representative sample to ensure accurate data analysis with minimal sampling error.

Researchers often use sample survey methodology to obtain information and make inferences about a large aggregate or population. The application of a wide variety of available sampling designs ...

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 ...

Most of the analysis in this report is drawn from two telephone surveys. The survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press was conducted September 22-October 4, 2011, among a national ...

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 ...

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This chapter describes the two components of the Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE)—the Interview survey and the Diary survey. The Panel on Redesigning the BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys identified ...

Most of the analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted August 17-21, 2011, among a national sample of 1,509 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United ...