Editing Survey sampling (section)

==Further reading==
The textbook by Groves et alia provides an overview of survey methodology, including recent literature on questionnaire development (informed by [[cognitive psychology]]) :  
* [[Robert M. Groves|Robert Groves]], et alia. ''Survey methodology'' (2010) Second edition of the (2004) first edition {{ISBN|0-471-48348-6}}.

The other books focus on the [[statistical theory]] of survey sampling and require some knowledge of basic statistics, as discussed in the following <!-- leading statistical --> textbooks:
* [[David S. Moore]] and George P. McCabe (February 2005). "''Introduction to the practice of statistics''" (5th edition). W.H. Freeman & Company. {{ISBN|0-7167-6282-X}}.
* {{Cite book | last1 = Freedman | first1 = David | author-link1 = David Freedman (statistician) | last2 = Pisani | first2 = Robert | last3 = Purves | first3 = Roger | title = Statistics | url = http://www.wwnorton.com/college/titles/math/stat4/comment.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080706153959/http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/titles/math/stat4/comment.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2008-07-06 | place = [[New York City|New York]] | publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company|Norton]] | year = 2007 | edition = 4th | isbn = 978-0-393-92972-0 }}
The elementary book by Scheaffer et alia uses quadratic equations from high-school algebra: 
* Scheaffer, Richard L., William Mendenhal and R. Lyman Ott. ''Elementary survey sampling'', Fifth Edition. Belmont: Duxbury Press, 1996.
More mathematical statistics is required for Lohr, for Särndal et alia, and for Cochran (classic):
* {{cite book
|author=Cochran, William G.
|author-link=William Gemmell Cochran
|year=1977
|title=Sampling techniques
|edition=Third
|publisher=Wiley
|isbn=0-471-16240-X
}}
* {{cite book
|last=Lohr|first=Sharon L.|author-link= Sharon Lohr
|year=1999
|title=Sampling: Design and analysis
|publisher=Duxbury
|isbn=0-534-35361-4
}}
* {{cite book
|author1=Särndal, Carl-Erik
|author2= Swensson, Bengt
|author3= Wretman, Jan
|year=1992
|title=Model assisted survey sampling
|publisher=Springer-Verlag
|isbn=0-387-40620-4
}}

The historically important books by Deming and Kish remain valuable for insights for social scientists (particularly about the  U.S. census and the [[University of Michigan Institute for Social Research|Institute for Social Research]] at the [[University of Michigan]]): 
* {{cite book
| last = Deming
| first = W. Edwards
| author-link = W. Edwards Deming
| year = 1966
| title = Some Theory of Sampling
| publisher = [[Dover Publications]]
| isbn = 0-486-64684-X
| oclc = 166526
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/sometheoryofsamp00will
}} 
* [[Leslie Kish|Kish, Leslie]] (1995) ''Survey Sampling'', Wiley, {{ISBN|0-471-10949-5}}