Praise for the First Edition

"This pioneering work, in which Rao provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of small area estimation, will become a classic.... I believe that it has the potential to turn small area estimation...into a larger area of importance to both researchers and practitioners.";
--Journal of the American Statistical Association

Written by two experts in the field, Small Area Estimation, Second Edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the methods and theory of small area estimation...

An edited volume for an upcoming conference on Total Survey Error (TSE), this book provides an overview of the TSE framework and current TSE research as related to survey design, data collection, estimation and analysis. The book recognizes that survey data affects many public policy and business decisions, and thus focuses on the framework for understanding and improving survey data quality.

The book also addresses issues with data quality in official statistics and in survey, opinion, and market research as the field of statistics has changed, leading to larger and messier...

This book builds upon a previously-successful 2008 conference and resulting 2010 Wiley book, Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts (Harkness), recent winner of the 2013 American Association of Public Opinion and Research (AAPOR) Book Award. It is the by-product of a similar conference, which was held eight years later. Since the 2008 conference, there have been substantial methodological, operational and technical advances in international survey research. There are also whole new areas of methodological development that were only on the horizon...