Changing Technology and Survey Research
In 2011, Robert Groves, a former Director of the U.S. Census Bureau and one of the deans of U.S. survey research, highlighted the impacts of changing technology in a discussion of the state of survey research.1
at this moment in survey research, uncertainty reigns. Participation rates in household surveys are declining throughout the developed world. Surveys seeking high response rates are experiencing crippling cost inflation. Traditional sampling frames that have been serviceable for decades are fraying at the edges. Alternative sources of statistical information, from volunteer data collections, administrative records, and Internet-based data, are propelled by new technology. To be candid, ...
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