Statistical modelling of complex survey data addresses the challenge of making valid inferences from samples collected under elaborate designs involving stratification, clustering and unequal ...

Model-assisted estimation unites the strengths of design-based survey sampling with predictive models to improve the precision and reliability of population estimates. At its core, this approach ...

Cochran (1977) outlines eleven steps in the planning of a survey. Good sampling methods must exist in the environment of all of these steps. These steps are (1) a statement of the survey objectives, ...