Step-by-step instructions for calculating survey weights

Step-by-step instructions for calculating survey weights

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- 1 An Overview of Sample Design and Weighting.- 2 Project 1: Design a Single-Stage Personnel Survey.- 3 Sample Design and Sample Size for Single-Stage Surveys.- 4 Power Calculations and Sample Size Determination.- 5 Mathematical Programming.- 6 Outcome Rates and Effect on Sample Size.- 7 The Personnel Survey Design Project: One Solution.- 8 Project 2: Designing an Area Sample.- 9 Designing Multistage Samples.- 10 Area Sampling.- 11 The Area Sample Design: One Solution.- 12 Project 3: Weighting a Personnel Survey.- 13 Basic Steps in Weighting.- 14 Calibration and Other Uses of Auxiliary Data in Weighting.- 15 Variance Estimation.- 16 Weighting the Personnel Survey: One Solution.- 17 Multiphase Designs.- 18 Nonprobability Samples.- 19 Process Control and Quality Measures.- Appendix A: Notation Glossary.- Appendix B: Data Sets.- Appendix C: R Functions Used in this Book.- References.- Solutions to Selected Exercises.- Index.