Sampling Techniques - Notes

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The textbook by Groves et alia provides an overview of survey methodology, including recent literature on questionnaire development (informed by cognitive psychology) :

  • Robert Groves, et alia. Survey methodology (2010) Second edition of the (2004) first edition ISBN 0-471-48348-6.

The other books focus on the statistical theory of survey sampling and require some knowledge of basic statistics, as discussed in the following textbooks:

  • David S. Moore and George P. McCabe (February 2005). "Introduction to the practice of statistics" (5th edition). W.H. Freeman & Company. ISBN 0-7167-6282-X.
  • Freedman, David; Pisani, Robert; Purves, Roger (2007). Statistics (4th ed.). New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-92972-8.

The elementary book by Scheaffer et alia uses quadratic equations from high-school algebra:

  • Scheaffer, Richard L., William Mendenhal and R. Lyman Ott. Elementary survey sampling, Fifth Edition. Belmont: Duxbury Press, 1996.

More mathematical statistics is required for Lohr, for Särndal et alia, and for Cochran (classic):

  • Cochran, William G. (1977). Sampling techniques (Third ed.). Wiley. ISBN 0-471-16240-X.
  • Lohr, Sharon L. (1999). Sampling: Design and analysis. Duxbury. ISBN 0-534-35361-4.
  • Särndal, Carl-Erik, and Swensson, Bengt, and Wretman, Jan (1992). Model assisted survey sampling. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-40620-4.

The historically important books by Deming and Kish remain valuable for insights for social scientists (particularly about the U.S. census and the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan):

  • Deming, W. Edwards (1966). Some Theory of Sampling. Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-64684-X. OCLC 166526.
  • Kish, Leslie (1995) Survey Sampling, Wiley, ISBN 0-471-10949-5

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