Introduction to Survey Sampling (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)

Reviews sampling methods used in surveys: simple random sampling, systematic sampling, stratification, cluster and multistage sampling, sampling with probability proportional to size, twophase sampling, replicated sampling, panel designs, and nonprobability sampling. Kalton discusses issues of practical implementation, including frame problems and nonresponse, and gives examples of sample designs for a national facetoface interview survey and for a telephone survey. He also treats the use of weights in survey analysis, the computation of sampling errors with complex sampling designs, and the determination of sample size.