Emigration Rates From Sample Surveys: An Application to Senegal

Sample Surveys

A census is a complete enumeration of the population: data are collected from every unit in the population. In a survey, a subset of the population, called a sample, is taken. Census are taken at regular but infrequent intervals, e.g. every 5 or 10 years. In between, surveys are used to update results. The selection and estimation procedures of official surveys are almost always based on previo...

Sample Surveys

1. What is a Survey? 2. Probability sampling 3. Common probability sampling designs 3.1. Simple Random Sampling 3.2. Stratified Sampling 3.3. Cluster Sampling 3.4. Unequal Probability Sampling 3.5. Systematic Sampling 3.6. Stratified Multistage Sampling 4. Survey estimates and standard errors 5. Nonsampling errors 6. Sampling rare populations 7. Issues in Survey Design Acknowledgments Glossary ...

Sample selection, recruitment and participation rates in health examination surveys in Europe – experience from seven national surveys

BACKGROUND Health examination surveys (HESs), carried out in Europe since the 1950's, provide valuable information about the general population's health for health monitoring, policy making, and research. Survey participation rates, important for representativeness, have been falling. International comparisons are hampered by differing exclusion criteria and definitions for non-response. METH...

Errors in Sample Surveys

Emigration flows from North Africa to Europe.

The region of North Africa (NA) represents a striking locality regarding migration with several migration patterns, namely emigration in the form of labour export to Europe and North America and, to a lesser extent, to the Arab Gulf area. The latter has increased enormously in the last decade because of the political instability in most of the NA countries. The aim of the present chapter was to...