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Surveys: Critical Points, Challenges and Need for Development

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The aim of this paper is to review some of the critical issues which need further insight in survey methodology and practice. The focus is on the specific aspects of the survey process grouping the main issues in the following three areas: (i) mode of collection of data and construct of questionnaire; (ii) sampling strategy, design and estimation, to reply to the demands of the users and integration of data; (iii) data dissemination and standardisation. For every issue survey data producers have to fight and ask for development.

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    Usually, we do not refer to the methods and application to a specific economic and/or social field. However, we would like to mention the important developments that have been achieved and discussed during the International Conferences on Establishment Surveys. A special section of the Journal of Official Statistics (Atkinson et al. 2010) has been devoted to host part of the papers presented at the Third Conference on Establishment Surveys

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    Luigi Biggeri

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Biggeri, L. (2013). Surveys: Critical Points, Challenges and Need for Development. In: Davino, C., Fabbris, L. (eds) Survey Data Collection and Integration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21308-3_1

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