I taught a course on sampling last year and used Sharon Lohr's
Sampling and Groves et al. as the primary texts. The Lohr book is too
long for a quarter, but is reasonably well written and covers both
model-based and design-based inference. However, I wasn't really
satisfied with either.
First, both books concentrate on designs of the type encountered at
the Census bureau and, to a lesser extent, the high-end federally
funded academic data collection projects (NES, GSS, PSID, etc.), but
not at all to the vast majority of surveys actually conducted. The
Groves book, for example, has pitiful coverage of non-response
adjustments and doesn't even discuss variance estimation in this
context. The statistical content is archaic. I came to the conclusion
that the book I learned from 30 years ago (Cochran's Sampling
Techniques) had better practical advice! Little & Rubin's book on
Missing Data is quite good, but, unfortunately, too advanced for an
introductory course.
On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:47 PM, Eric Plutzer wrote:
> Carola,
>
> I'd recommend Robert Groves et al. SURVEY METHODOLOGY, chapters 2-4
> and chapter 10. This provides a introductory but sophisticated
> discussion of the linkage between various sampling designs (from
> simple random sample to multi-stage cluster designs), sources of
> survey error, and statistical implications of both random and
> systematic error. It's accessible to students with only a semester
> of stats, but doesn't water anything down.
>
> Eric
>
>> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:14:53 -0800
>> From: Carola Herrera <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: good book on sampling and survey design for beginners
>>
>> Dear list participants,
>>
>> could anyone recommend a good introductory book to sampling and
>> survey design techniques?
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> Carola
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