Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples

“The monograph gives an all-steps guidance on practical survey sampling implementation. … All described techniques are accompanied by R, SAS, and other code examples throughout the whole book, so they can be easily implemented by readers in their research. The R codes and datasets are also given in the R package PracTools available online.” (Stan Lipovetsky, Technometrics, Vol. 59 (1), February, 2017)

“The book is very helpful for researchers, practitioners and all people designing a survey in practice … . The parts at the planning stage of a survey and the important quality control steps are often not mentioned in other textbooks. The abundance of examples helps the reader to understand the whole process. Thus, I can highly recommend this book.” (Siegfried Gabler, Mda Methods, data, analyses, Vol. 9 (1), 2015)

“This is an invaluable reference to the design, implementation, data processing (including weight adjustments), and analysis of population surveys, and quality control and documentation of these processes. The book has a distinctly practical orientation, combining theory and textbook-like material with examples from … population surveys and advice and insight that usually cannot be found in the literature. It extensively uses R packages, SAS macros, and other software. Most chapters are concluded with exercises.” (Nicholas T. Longford, Mathematical Reviews, April, 2014)

“The book is aimed at providing practical aspects of applying sampling and weighting approaches in surveys. It addresses to students as well as to survey and social scientists with basic knowledge of sampling methods. … supportive exercises are provided in each chapter with solutions given in the appendix.” (Iris Burkholder, zbMATH, Vol. 1282, 2014)