Survey Sampling

By Leslie Kish and J. Leslie Kish

Book Overview

An accessible book on sampling techniques with emphasis on and illustrations from surveys of human populations. Explains how to design and execute valid samples of moderate dimensions and difficulty, avoid selection biases and how to become more adept at evaluating sample results, judge their validity and limits of inference, applicability and precision. Contains numerous practical procedures, the domestic arts of sampling along with its science plus invaluable tricks that are usually learned only in apprenticeship.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047148900X
• ISBN13: 9780471489009
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 643 Pages
• Weight: 2.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Still useful after nearly 45 years in print

Sampling is a topic that often receives short-shrift in the education of applied researchers of all kinds. Fortunately, since 1965 when it was first published, Leslie Kish's text has been available as a self-instructional tool. Kish's text has become a widely read classic on survey sampling and sample design, and it remains accessible and informative. Many readers, myself included, first encountered concepts such as clustering, within-group homogeneity, design effects, and effective as opposed to nominal sample size by reading Kish. Oddly, concepts such as these have an even higher profile today because of the conspicuous role they play in multilevel analysis, a technique that raises especially difficult sampling questions. Though it's now becoming a bit dated, if I were just starting out, I would still start with Kish's fine textbook. It provides a solid foundation for any additional study of sampling.

a true classic

I reviewed this book in 2001. I had the original 1965 edition with its very fmiliar cover. As I said back then the late Professor Kish was a leader in survey research and this book was used by many over the years. Wiley only publishes books in their classic series that were big sellers and maintained their usefulness over a long period of time. Much of the important developments in survey methods had been developed by the time this text first came out and Professor Kish's book made these methods very accessible to many practitioners in the social sciences and helped to improve the quality of survey research. Professor Kish pioneered this development with his research group at the University of Michigan along with summer programs designed to teach survey sampling to practitioners. In this review I would like to make a comparison with the other classic text by William G. Cochran. Cochran's book is an important texts that is well written and mathematically rigorous. It is also extensively referenced in the literature and has been a very important reference for those of us who have done work in survey sampling. Also Cochran's book is a little more current than Kish's having been published in 1977. But Cochran's book has a much more theoretical bent and does not delve into practical applications. It is in this vein that Kish's book stands out over the others (practical applications especially in the social sciences).

This book is comprehensive well written yet simple to follow

I have used this book for a number of years & found that in most cases it has been THE book that I should have in my library. It is a must for the work place to buy.

This a good book and recommend for census and sampling

I studied this book in my university here in Ecuador, and i believe that is a good book; in this moment i am working in "Census Agricultura Project" and think to recommend to buy