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.
Table of contents
- Section 1. Introduction
- Section 2. Fundamental discoveries
- Section 3. Research tradition and core assumptions
- Section 4. Progress in survey science
- Section 5. Concluding thoughts
- References
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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