Note: This report was updated on Dec. 30, 2015 to reflect the January-July 2015 National Health Interview Survey estimates released on December 1, 2015. Telephone surveys face numerous challenges, but ...

Targeting matters most. Surveying the wrong audience can lead to misleading data and poor decisions, even if the questions themselves are solid. Weighting shapes reality. Overrepresenting certain ...

The data in this report are based on two independent survey administrations with the same randomly selected, nationally representative group of respondents. The first is the center’s largest survey on ...

Millions of businesses rely on customer surveys to learn more about their customer base, their products, and their options for the future. Aspiring entrepreneurs use them for initial market research ...

Official household surveys are important sources of information: they support policy and decision-making for a wide range of government programs. The uses of household survey data are broad, from ...

Our polls indicate that customers like this product the most! Our poll says people prefer the beach to the mountains! You hear a lot of polls and survey numbers from newspapers, websites, TV channels, ...

There was controversy recently over how sound data collection procedures in India are, especially when it comes to some of the important national level surveys. An article (by Shamika Ravi, Member of ...

The National Sample Survey, under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, has been conducting large-scale sample surveys on All-India basis since the 1950s. These surveys are the most ...