• Gender Prespecified Sampling for Cost Control 

      Trung Le1, Kien; Diop, Abdoulaye; Wittrock, Jill; Al-Emadi, Darwish; Elawad, Elmogiera ( Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved , 2014 , Article)
      Nationally representative surveys administered in the Middle East and North Africa typically are conducted using methodological techniques developed from outside the region. Sometimes these best practices require ...
    • Practical Guidance on Calculating Sampling Error in Election Polls 

      Diop, Abdoulaye; Le, Kien T.; Alemadi, Darwish ( American Association for Public Opinion Research , 2013 , Article)
      In election poll results, the proportions favoring candidates and the survey sampling error are usually reported. However, it is hard to assess if the gap between any two candidates is statistically significant or not based ...
    • Within-Household Sampling Conditioning on Household Size 

      Le, Kien T.; Brick, J. Michael; Diop, Abdoulaye; Alemadi, Darwish ( Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association , 2012 , Article)
      We review existing methods for sampling an adult from a household and highlight the strengths and weaknesses of these methods with respect to issues relevant for sampling in the Middle East and developing countries. We ...