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Suggested Citation: "5 Sampling and Estimation." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Reengineering the Census Bureau's Annual Economic Surveys. Washington, DC: The ...

Pew Research Center designed this study to assess the current state of online survey sampling methods – both probability-based and opt-in – and determine their accuracy on general population estimates ...

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