STAT392: Sample Surveys

Richard Arnold et al.

2024-05-14

Chapter 1 Introductory Remarks

These STAT 392 Lecture Notes are derived from notes created by Richard Arnold, Alistair Gray, and other present and former members of staff at Victoria University of Wellington and at Statistics New Zealand.

They should not be distributed without persmission.

1.1 Recommended reading

There are lots of books on sample surveys.

• Thomas Lumley’s book ‘Complex Surveys’ (T. S. Lumley (2010)) is a good introduction to sample survey analysis with R, and accompanies the survey package (T. Lumley (2004)).
• Groves et al. ‘Survey Methodology’ (groves.etal) is a good general summary of the important issues in survey design.
• Sarndal, Swensson and Wretman is a classic in the field of the theory of sampling (Särndal, Swensson, and Wretmann (1992))
• Likewise the books by Cochran (1977) and Kish (1965)
• Little and Rubin have a great book on missing data (Little and Rubin (2002))
• More recent are the books by Lohr (1999) and Scheaffer, III, and Ott (2006)
• And in 1994 StatsNZ published ‘A Guide to Good Survey Design’ (Zealand (1995))

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References

Cochran, W. G. 1977. Sampling Techniques. Third. New York: Wiley.

Kish, L. 1965. Survey Sampling. New York: Wiley.

Little, R. J. A., and D. B. Rubin. 2002. Statistical Analysis with Missing Data. Second. Hoboken: Wiley.

Lohr, Sharon L. 1999. Sampling: Design and Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA, USA: Duxbury Press.

Lumley, Thomas. 2004. “Analysis of Complex Survey Samples.” Journal of Statistical Software 9 (1): 1–19.

Lumley, Thomas S. 2010. Complex Surveys: A Guide to Analysis Using r (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology). Wiley.

Särndal, C-E., B. Swensson, and J. Wretmann. 1992. Model Assisted Survey Sampling. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Scheaffer, R. L., W. Mendenhall III, and R. L. Ott. 2006. Elementary Survey Sampling. Sixth. Belmont: Duxbury.

Zealand, Statistics New. 1995. A Guide to Good Survey Design. Second. Wellington: Statistics New Zealand.