The January 2014 issue of the International Association of Survey Statisticians' newsletter 'The Survey Statistician' is now available at: http://isi.cbs.nl/iass/allUK.htm
Besides our regular features of country reports on activities related to survey methodology, Table of Contents of related journals and announcements for upcoming conferences, we also have three special articles in each issue under: 'New and Emerging Methods', 'Ask the Expert 'and 'Book/Software Review'.
The current issue contains articles by P. Daas and M. Puts on 'Big Data as a Source of Statistical Information', a response to the question 'When should a multiple frame survey be used?' by S. Lohr and a review of the Committee on National Statistics Report on 'Nonresponse in Social Science Surveys: A Research Agenda' by P. Lynn.
In previous issues of 'The Survey Statistician' , the 'New and Emerging Methods' section contained articles on: 'Small Area Estimation' by D. Pfeffermann, 'Emerging Methodology of Web Surveys' by M.P. Couper, 'Proxy Pattern-Mixture Analysis for Survey Nonresponse' by R.R. Andridge and R.J.A. Little, 'Evaluating, Comparing, Monitoring and Improving Representativeness of Survey Response Through R-indicators and partial R-indicators' by B. Schouten, et al., 'Split Questionnaire Designs' by J.O. Chipperfield and D.G. Steel, 'The Smartphone in Survey Research: Experiments for Time Use Data' by H. Fernee and A.C. Scherpenzeel, and 'Non-respondent Surveys: Pertinence and Feasibility' by M.E. Stahli and D. Joye.
The 'Ask the Experts' section contained articles on: 'How to combine survey results?' by D.G. Steel and R.G. Clark, 'Can web surveys provide an adequate alternative to phone and face-to-face surveys?' by J. Bethlehem, 'How should samples be designed for difficult to reach populations?' by R. G. Clark, 'If information on dead units is obtained in a survey, should it be fed back to the sampling frame?' by R.G. Clark and D. Hedlin, 'How should one find out the contributions to the design effect (variance) made by each of the design components of a complex survey design?' by H. Lee, 'Is it acceptable not to cover the smallest businesses in a business survey? How should a cut-off be chosen?' by M. Bee, R. Benedetti, G. Espa and F. Piersimoni and 'How can survey estimates of small areas be improved by leveraing social-media data?' by N. Cressie, S.H. Holan and C.K. Wikle.
The 'Book/Software Review' section contained software review articles: 'Study of Record Linkage Software for the 2010 Brazilian Census Post Enumeration Survey' by A.D. da Silva and 'Official Statistics and Survey Methodology Meets R: An Overview of Corresponding Packages' by M. Templ and V. Todorov, and the book review articles: 'Statistical Disclosure Control' (A. Hundepool, et al.) by Natalie Shlomo and 'Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples' (R. Valliant, J.A. Dever and F. Kreuter) by G. Griffiths.
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