by Jeffrey Henning | Oct 28, 2021 | Blog
The U.S. Census Bureau has been slowly releasing data from the 2020 Census and as a result we’ve made a couple of updates to our work. First, and most easily, we’ve updated the target proportions that we weight survey data to. Second, and a bit more involved, we’ve...
by Jeffrey Henning | Jul 7, 2020 | Blog
Respondents will answer the questions you ask, but they may not spend the effort to be accurate. For some questionnaires, it’s simply not possible.
by Jeffrey Henning | Nov 19, 2014 | Blog
Panel companies do a great job of profiling their members for common attributes. Need to survey Hispanics under 30 years old? No problem. Need to survey divorced college graduates? No problem. Need upper-income parents? Again, no problem! But what if you need to...
by Jeffrey Henning | Jul 31, 2013 | Blog
The most common problem with the draft questionnaires that are sent to me is the use of leading questions. A leading question suggests the answer the survey author is looking for and often unintentionally reflects the author’s bias. As a result, the answers to such...