Surveys are a popular tool for collecting feedback from donors and program participants. Inexpensive and easy to send, they’re a visible way to engage constituents and signal an openness to outside ...

Data from mixed-mode questions are hard, if not impossible, to interpret accurately. The first part of this article will give an example of a mixed-mode question and an analysis of how to interpret ...

In Consumer Reports’ labs, we design tests that identify which products are the best at what they do. But to find out which ones are also the most reliable and make customers the happiest, we rely on ...

This study reviews the Census Bureau’s annual economic surveys. Specifically, it examines the design, operations, and products of 11 surveys and makes recommendations to enable them to better answer ...

This chapter describes the two components of the Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE)—the Interview survey and the Diary survey. The Panel on Redesigning the BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys identified ...

By Courtney Kennedy, Andrew Mercer, Scott Keeter, Nick Hatley, Kyley McGeeney and Alejandra Gimenez As the costs and nonresponse rates of traditional, probability-based surveys seem to grow each year, ...