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 ...

Survey sampling and estimation methods form the cornerstone of modern statistical inference, underpinning research across the social, medical, and natural sciences. At their heart, these methods ...

Targeting matters most. Surveying the wrong audience can lead to misleading data and poor decisions, even if the questions themselves are solid. Weighting shapes reality. Overrepresenting certain ...

Official household surveys are important sources of information: they support policy and decision-making for a wide range of government programs. The uses of household survey data are broad, from ...

In her 1956 American Statistical Association Presidential Address titled "Statistical Frontiers," Gertrude Cox outlined her view of what the future held for statisticians. Seven paragraphs of that ...

When that message comes from Uncle Sam, it’s often delivered in the form of a survey. The federal government amasses an astounding amount of data each year from nationally representative surveys on ...