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- Articles and reports: 12-001-X201700254895Description:
This note by Graham Kalton presents a discussion of the paper “Sample survey theory and methods: Past, present, and future directions” where J.N.K. Rao and Wayne A. Fuller share their views regarding the developments in sample survey theory and methods covering the past 100 years.
Release date: 2017-12-21 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017521Description:
This paper discusses the need for developments in areas such as international surveys, panel surveys, small area estimation, observational studies, secondary analyses, and modes of data collection to foster public co-operation in surveys and keep response rates from falling.
Release date: 2005-01-26 - 3. Leslie Kish's impact on survey statistics ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X200200113019Description: This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
Leslie Kish, one of the pioneers of survey sampling, died on October 7, 2000, at the age of 90. This paper reviews how he has influenced survey statistics, mainly in terms of his research, but also in terms of his world-wide promotion of sound probability sampling methods. Kish's research had a broad range, covering sampling methods; non-sampling errors; small area estimation; observational studies; variance estimation and design effects; and survey designs across time and space. He promoted probability sampling designs through his writings, international consultancies , and in particular, through the highly effective, intensive summer Sampling Program for Foreign Statisticians that he established at the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan.
Release date: 2002-07-05 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X20000015173Description:
In recognition of Survey Methodology's silver anniversary, this paper reviews the major advances in survey research that have taken place in the past 25 years. It provides a gneneral overview of developments in: the survey research profession; survey methodology - questionnaire design, data collection methods, handling missing data, survey sampling, and total survey error; and survey applications - panel surveys, international surveys, and secondary analysis. It also attempts to forecast some future developments in these areas.
Release date: 2000-08-30 - 5. Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures, United States and Canada - An Update to 1998 ArchivedStats in brief: 13-604-M1999036Description:
Recent economic trends, including expanding globalization of trade (as evidenced by new trade agreements), volatility in market exchange rates, and greater interest in international comparisons of real income and productivity are generating increased interest in intercountry comparisons. These comparisons are made in real terms derived from purchasing power parities (PPPs). In Canada, a particularly important relationship with the United States focusses attention on US/Canada comparative price and volume measures. This article includes updated annual bilateral volume indexes of real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and its components for the United States, compared with Canada, and the associated PPPs.
Release date: 1999-11-30 - 6. Panel surveys: Adding the fourth dimension ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X199300214452Description:
Surveys across time can serve many objectives. The first half of the paper reviews the abilities of alternative survey designs across time - repeated surveys, panel surveys, rotating panel surveys and split panel surveys - to meet these objectives. The second half concentrates on panel surveys. It discusses the decisions that need to be made in designing a panel survey, the problems of wave nonresponse, time-in-sample bias and the seam effect, and some methods for the longitudinal analysis of panel survey data.
Release date: 1993-12-15 - Articles and reports: 13-604-M1993025Description:
This article introduces two new tables showing volume indexes of real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and its components for Canada compared with the United States and the associated purchasing power parities (PPPs). These international comparisons of real expenditures based on PPPs are considered to be a major addition to the tools available for macroeconomic analysis. For example, the recent publication by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of a set of estimates of different countries' output using PPPs has changed the view of the share of world output that comes from the industrialized countries compared with the developing economies.
An analysis based on PPPs, rather than a more conventional one based on exchange rates, has significantly changed the relative measures of output of countries. Comparisons based on exchange rates are unlikely to fully take into account the differences in price levels between countries (i.e., the goods and services that can be purchased in one country's currency compared with another's). Moreover, services are not generally traded in the way that goods are, so their prices in different countries tend not to be related in a way that parallels the currency exchange rate. If aggregate output is to be properly compared across countries, PPPs become more and more important as the size of the service sector grows.
Economic theory would suggest that for internationally traded domestically produced goods and services, PPPs and exchange rates will tend to equalize in the long run. Exchange rates, however, can fluctuate widely in short periods and are affected by expectations and factors such as deficits, wars, fuel shortages and interest rates. With the calculation of PPPs, actual price level differences can be identified. Such measures are also much more stable over time.
Release date: 1993-11-30 - 8. On analytical statistics from complex samples ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X198400114346Description:
This presentation describes the important and urgent task of providing useful expressions for analytical statistics for complex sample designs. The following topics are discussed: effects of complex designs, sampling error for analytical statistics, subclasses involved in analytical statistics, comparisons of paired means, computation of analytical statistics and categorical data analysis.
Release date: 1984-06-15 - 9. Management of information: Future trends ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X197900100001Description: This paper discusses the management of information within the context of the information industry and indicates some likely future trends related thereto. The information industry itself is first briefly described. Then the process used in producing information, the organizational structure required for such production, and the legislation relating to the information industry are discussed in turn. Finally, some approaches to solving the problems of the future are suggested.Release date: 1979-06-15
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- Articles and reports: 12-001-X201700254895Description:
This note by Graham Kalton presents a discussion of the paper “Sample survey theory and methods: Past, present, and future directions” where J.N.K. Rao and Wayne A. Fuller share their views regarding the developments in sample survey theory and methods covering the past 100 years.
Release date: 2017-12-21 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017521Description:
This paper discusses the need for developments in areas such as international surveys, panel surveys, small area estimation, observational studies, secondary analyses, and modes of data collection to foster public co-operation in surveys and keep response rates from falling.
Release date: 2005-01-26 - 3. Leslie Kish's impact on survey statistics ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X200200113019Description: This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
Leslie Kish, one of the pioneers of survey sampling, died on October 7, 2000, at the age of 90. This paper reviews how he has influenced survey statistics, mainly in terms of his research, but also in terms of his world-wide promotion of sound probability sampling methods. Kish's research had a broad range, covering sampling methods; non-sampling errors; small area estimation; observational studies; variance estimation and design effects; and survey designs across time and space. He promoted probability sampling designs through his writings, international consultancies , and in particular, through the highly effective, intensive summer Sampling Program for Foreign Statisticians that he established at the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan.
Release date: 2002-07-05 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X20000015173Description:
In recognition of Survey Methodology's silver anniversary, this paper reviews the major advances in survey research that have taken place in the past 25 years. It provides a gneneral overview of developments in: the survey research profession; survey methodology - questionnaire design, data collection methods, handling missing data, survey sampling, and total survey error; and survey applications - panel surveys, international surveys, and secondary analysis. It also attempts to forecast some future developments in these areas.
Release date: 2000-08-30 - 5. Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures, United States and Canada - An Update to 1998 ArchivedStats in brief: 13-604-M1999036Description:
Recent economic trends, including expanding globalization of trade (as evidenced by new trade agreements), volatility in market exchange rates, and greater interest in international comparisons of real income and productivity are generating increased interest in intercountry comparisons. These comparisons are made in real terms derived from purchasing power parities (PPPs). In Canada, a particularly important relationship with the United States focusses attention on US/Canada comparative price and volume measures. This article includes updated annual bilateral volume indexes of real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and its components for the United States, compared with Canada, and the associated PPPs.
Release date: 1999-11-30 - 6. Panel surveys: Adding the fourth dimension ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X199300214452Description:
Surveys across time can serve many objectives. The first half of the paper reviews the abilities of alternative survey designs across time - repeated surveys, panel surveys, rotating panel surveys and split panel surveys - to meet these objectives. The second half concentrates on panel surveys. It discusses the decisions that need to be made in designing a panel survey, the problems of wave nonresponse, time-in-sample bias and the seam effect, and some methods for the longitudinal analysis of panel survey data.
Release date: 1993-12-15 - Articles and reports: 13-604-M1993025Description:
This article introduces two new tables showing volume indexes of real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and its components for Canada compared with the United States and the associated purchasing power parities (PPPs). These international comparisons of real expenditures based on PPPs are considered to be a major addition to the tools available for macroeconomic analysis. For example, the recent publication by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of a set of estimates of different countries' output using PPPs has changed the view of the share of world output that comes from the industrialized countries compared with the developing economies.
An analysis based on PPPs, rather than a more conventional one based on exchange rates, has significantly changed the relative measures of output of countries. Comparisons based on exchange rates are unlikely to fully take into account the differences in price levels between countries (i.e., the goods and services that can be purchased in one country's currency compared with another's). Moreover, services are not generally traded in the way that goods are, so their prices in different countries tend not to be related in a way that parallels the currency exchange rate. If aggregate output is to be properly compared across countries, PPPs become more and more important as the size of the service sector grows.
Economic theory would suggest that for internationally traded domestically produced goods and services, PPPs and exchange rates will tend to equalize in the long run. Exchange rates, however, can fluctuate widely in short periods and are affected by expectations and factors such as deficits, wars, fuel shortages and interest rates. With the calculation of PPPs, actual price level differences can be identified. Such measures are also much more stable over time.
Release date: 1993-11-30 - 8. On analytical statistics from complex samples ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X198400114346Description:
This presentation describes the important and urgent task of providing useful expressions for analytical statistics for complex sample designs. The following topics are discussed: effects of complex designs, sampling error for analytical statistics, subclasses involved in analytical statistics, comparisons of paired means, computation of analytical statistics and categorical data analysis.
Release date: 1984-06-15 - 9. Management of information: Future trends ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X197900100001Description: This paper discusses the management of information within the context of the information industry and indicates some likely future trends related thereto. The information industry itself is first briefly described. Then the process used in producing information, the organizational structure required for such production, and the legislation relating to the information industry are discussed in turn. Finally, some approaches to solving the problems of the future are suggested.Release date: 1979-06-15
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