Wondering how many people in the United States have a smartphone? If you poll 20 people on the street, your survey won’t be representative of the entire American population. But if you just want to ...

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Market research surveys are used to gather information about customers or potential customers for your company. These surveys can help you to make the most profitable decisions about marketing, ...

The National Sample Survey (NSS), since its beginning in 1950 by launch of the first round of Household Consumption Expenditure Survey and other allied indicators, has for the last 75 years quietly ...

Mark Twain once said that “the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.” That advice is ...

The Komprise data management survey shows that 74% have 5PB or more of stored data and 85% of participants expect to spend ...

The LSMS high-frequency phone surveys are leveraging existing face-to-face surveys as sampling frames and sources of longitudinal data. These techniques also feed into analyzing the phone survey data ...