Progress in survey science and practice: Yesterday-today-tomorrow
Articles and reports: 12-001-X202500100022Description: This article confronts survey science with important notions in philosophy of science: progress, paradigm, research tradition, research programmes. The article is conceptual and exploratory, rather than mathematical/technical. This is against a background where survey science must evolve in unfamiliar and challenging conditions. Society is changing. Survey nonresponse is high. Probability sampling surveys are in question, considered too expensive. Low cost alternative data sources - big data and others - must, in the opinion of some, be incorporated in statistics production at the national statistical offices. A lively research tradition has brought progress in survey science over more than one hundred years. The article recalls some of that progress and tries to foresee how the tradition may survive and face the coming decades. Issue Number: 2025001Author(s): Särndal, Carl-ErikMain Product:Survey Methodology
