Survey Methodology
Comments by Mary E. ThompsonNote 1 on “Progress in survey science and practice: Yesterday-today-tomorrow”

  • Release date: June 30, 2025

Abstract

These comments on C.-E. Särndal’s paper, “Progress in survey science and practice: yesterday-today-tomorrow”, will touch on probability sampling fundamentals, progress through competing approaches to inference, connections with other parts of statistics, and data in the twenty-first century.

Key Words:    Calibration; Competing approaches; Descriptive inference; Design-consistency; Finite population sampling; Models.

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How to cite

Thompson, M.E. (2025). Comments on “Progress in survey science and practice: yesterday-today-tomorrow”. Survey Methodology, 51(1), 55-60. Paper available at http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/12-001-x/2025001/article/00016-eng.pdf.

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