Survey Methods
Objectives
· To cover basic theoretical and practical aspects of survey sampling;
· Familiarize participants with sampling terminology and the general objectives of sample surveys;
· Present the classical Statistical sampling methods, conditions and situations where each one is appropriate;
· Provide practice in applying the sampling methods discussed in class and the calculations of sample dimensions, desired estimates and their measures of precision;
· Be able to apply new knowledge in a daily work environment.
General characterization
Code
200089
Credits
7.5
Responsible teacher
José António de Almeida Pinheiro
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Portuguese. If there are Erasmus students, classes will be taught in English
Prerequisites
- Perfect knowledge of general statistics
- descriptive statistics
- inductive statistics;
- Perfect conceptual master of specific concepts like
- Random Variable
- Distribution
- Parameters
- Estimator
- Estimate
- Estimators’ properties
- Confidence intervals
- Hypothesis testing
- Central limit Theorem
Bibliography
· William G. Cochran (1977) Sampling Techniques, 3-rd Ed. New York: Wiley, ISBN 0-471-16240-X
· Carl-Erik Särndal, Bengt Swensson, Jan Wretman (1992) Model Assisted Survey Sampling. New York: Springer Verlag, ISBN 0-387-97528-4
· Carl-Erik Särndal, Sixten Lundström (2005) Estimation in Surveys with Nonresponse. Chichester: Wiley, ISBN 0-470-01133-5
· Coelho P, Pereira L, Pinheiro J and Xufre P (2016), Sondagens, Livraria escolar Editora.
Teaching method
Theoretical and practical lectures
Evaluation method
Theoretical and ptractical lectures
Subject matter
· General framework, notation and terminology
· Simple random sampling
· Stratified random sampling
· Cluster sampling
· Two-stage sampling
· Estimation of a ratio
· Use of auxiliary information
· Estimation in domains