Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples

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Main Authors: Valliant, Richard, Dever, Jill A. (Author), Kreuter, Frauke (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2018, 2018
Edition:2nd ed. 2018
Series:Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 An Overview of Sample Design and Weighting
  • 2 Project 1: Design a Single-Stage Personnel Survey
  • 3 Sample Design and Sample Size for Single-Stage Surveys
  • 4 Power Calculations and Sample Size Determination
  • 5 Mathematical Programming
  • 6 Outcome Rates and Effect on Sample Size
  • 7 The Personnel Survey Design Project: One Solution
  • 8 Project 2: Designing an Area Sample
  • 9 Designing Multistage Samples
  • 10 Area Sampling
  • 11 The Area Sample Design: One Solution
  • 12 Project 3: Weighting a Personnel Survey
  • 13 Basic Steps in Weighting
  • 14 Calibration and Other Uses of Auxiliary Data in Weighting
  • 15 Variance Estimation
  • 16 Weighting the Personnel Survey: One Solution
  • 17 Multiphase Designs
  • 18 Nonprobability Samples
  • 19 Process Control and Quality Measures
  • Appendix A: Notation Glossary
  • Appendix B: Data Sets
  • Appendix C: R Functions Used in this Book
  • References
  • Solutions to Selected Exercises
  • Index