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 ...

Until earlier this year, Professor Ryan was a member of the Methodology Advisory Committee for the Australian Bureau of Statistics. She receives funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the ...

About Pew Research Center’s Spring 2025 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on a mix of telephone, face-to-face and online interviews ...

One possible explanation for the variability in estimates across the different nonprobability samples is the range of methods that online sample vendors employ. They differ on recruitment, weighting ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Sumit Aneja Online ...

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 ...

A 2024 National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) report found that urban private unaided school fees have surged over 169% in the past decade, far outpacing both inflation and salary growth.

Let us start with the biggest paradox. In all probability, you have never been interviewed for any of the opinion polls. How can the polls then claim to reflect ?public opinion?? The story goes that a ...