Survey Research Methods  

Ray Chambers

This issue of Survey Research Methods contains four papers that were presented at the ITACOSM11 conference held in Pisa, Italy, June 27-29, 2011. The four papers published here represent a good cross-section of current Italian research on sample survey de... see more

Roberto Benedetti, Federica Piersimoni

In business surveys in general, and in multipurpose agricultural surveys in particular, the problem of designing a sample from a list frame usually consists of two different aspects. The first is concerned with the choice of a rule for stratifying the pop... see more

Maria Caterina Bramati

There are several reasons why robust regression techniques are useful tools in sampling design. First of all, when stratified samples are considered, one needs to deal with three main issues: the sample size, the strata bounds determination and the sample... see more

Riccardo Borgoni, Donata Marasini, Piero Quatto

Business surveys are a valuable indication of the current and the future economic situation. However refusals are very common in this context and may induce bias in the estimates of interest. In this paper the problem of adjusting for nonresponse estimato... see more

Caterina Giusti, Stefano Marchetti, Monica Pratesi, Nicola Salvati

There has been rising interest in research on poverty mapping over the last decade, with the European Union proposing a core of statistical indicators on poverty commonly known as Laeken Indicators. They include the incidence and the intensity of poverty ... see more