Perhaps the most important part of the survey process is the creation of questions that accurately measure the opinions, experiences and behaviors of the public. Accurate random sampling will be ...

The survey was conducted by telephone with a national sample of adults (18 years of age or older) living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The results reported here are based on ...

Writing an effective questionnaire is not a task for novices. At the very least, it requires an understanding of four basic issues: Considering the differences between a questionnaire that respondents ...

Data from mixed-mode questions are hard, if not impossible, to interpret accurately. The first part of this article will give an example of a mixed-mode question and an analysis of how to interpret ...

Efforts to address these data challenges are underway, as governments and national statistical offices, working with international partners, are increasingly expanding their national surveys to ...