Note: This report was updated on Dec. 30, 2015 to reflect the January-July 2015 National Health Interview Survey estimates released on December 1, 2015. Telephone surveys face numerous challenges, but ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Sampling and Estimation." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Reengineering the Census Bureau's Annual Economic Surveys. Washington, DC: The ...

The sampling frame for the American Community Survey (ACS) is based on the Master Address File (MAF), which is a database maintained by the Census Bureau and used to conduct the decennial census and ...

Results for this study are based on telephone interviews conducted by SSRS, an independent research company, among a nationally representative sample of 1,520 Latino respondents ages 18 and older. It ...

In a September 28, 2018 Change Request to Medicare’s Program Integrity Manual (“PIM”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) updated its instructions to Medicare contractors regarding ...

Survey work is a series of complex processes. At the outset, there is sample and questionnaire design, as well as field training. During the data collection stage, there is monitoring and remedial ...

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 ...

Many marginalized populations face severe health inequities in developed countries. These include people who are poor, homeless, sell sex or use alcohol or illegal drugs. In Toronto, an estimated 19% ...