After a 72-year wait required by law, the National Archives has released individual records from the 1940 Census, opening a gold mine for people researching their family histories. But the 1940 Census ...

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 ...

NHK has introduced a dual frame telephone survey that uses land-line and mobile phones for December 2016 Survey on “Attitudes and Values on Society and Life.” This article reports how the newly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...