Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

NOVA Information Management School

Survey Methods

Code

200089

Academic unit

NOVA Information Management School

Credits

7.5

Teacher in charge

José António de Almeida Pinheiro

Teaching language

Portuguese. If there are Erasmus students, classes will be taught in English

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.
 

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

 

 

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

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

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