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Practically everyone is familiar with the Gallup Poll, an opinion survey, and the Current Population Survey, used by the Census Bureau to estimate unemployment, the Consumer’s Price Index, etc.
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A very readable nonmathematical book is Sudman, S. 1976. Applied Sampling. New York: Academic Press.
The classic reference is Cochran, W. G. 1977. Sampling Techniques. 3rd ed. New York: Wiley and Sons.
A good treatment is also given in Kish, L. 1965. Survey Sampling. New York: Wiley and Sons.
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Tietjen, G.L. (1986). Survey Sampling. In: A Topical Dictionary of Statistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1967-2_15
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