India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (left) with scientist and statistician PC Mahalanobis Indian data is staring at a credibility crisis with official numbers on a range of subjects - from ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the days to come, we should expect more polls to be reported so I thought it would be best to discuss more closely the Philippines’ survey scene. In this first of a three-part series, I describe ...

Measuring the identity of Taiwanese Americans, and Asian origin groups in the United States more generally, is a challenging endeavor, whether in survey research or when trying to generate estimates ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Sumit Aneja Online ...

The main types of non-response are no contact and refusal. In Chapter 2, we discuss some theories for these types of non-response. In addition, we present an overview of the characteristics associated ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first part of this three-part series described the science behind sample surveys. This next part identifies several opinion poll outfits and the people leading these firms, and then describes ...