Table of Contents

FUNDAMENTALS OF SURVEY SAMPLING.

Basic Concepts of Sampling.

Stratified Sampling.

Systematic Sampling;
Stratification Techniques.

Cluster Sampling and Subsampling.

Unequal Clusters.

Selection with Probabilities Proportional to Size Measures(PPS).

The Economic Design of Surveys.

SPECIAL PROBLEMS AND TECHNIQUES.

Area Sampling.

Multistage Sampling.

Sampling from Imperfect Frames.

Some Selection Techniques.

RELATED CONCEPTS.

Biases and Nonsampling Errors.

Some Issues of Inference from Survey Data.

Appendices.

References.

Answers to Selected Problems.

Index.

About the Author

Leslie Kish, PhD, was a Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He was President of the American Statistical Association in 1977 and was a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.