A course in sample surveys for political science by Andrew Gelman.
From the post:
A colleague asked if I had any material for a course in sample surveys. And indeed I do. See here.
It’s all the slides for a 14-week course, also the syllabus (“surveyscourse.pdf”), the final exam (“final2012.pdf”) and various misc files. Also more discussion of final exam questions here (keep scrolling thru the “previous entries” until you get to Question 1).
Enjoy! This is in no way a self-contained teach-it-yourself course, but I do think it could be helpful for anyone who is trying to teach a class on this material.
An impressive bundle of survey material!
I mention it because you may be collecting survey data or at least asked to process survey data.
Hopefully it won’t originate from Survey Monkey.
If I had $1 for every survey composed by a statistical or survey illiterate on Survey Monkey, I could make a substantial down payment on the national debt.
That’s not the fault of Survey Monkey but there is more to survey work than asking questions.
If you don’t know how to write a survey, do us all a favor, make up the numbers and say that in a footnote. You will be in good company with the piracy estimators.