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A dual-frame approach for estimation with respondent-driven samples
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is an increasingly common method for surveying rare, hidden, or otherwise hard-to-reach populations. Instead of...
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Adaptive sampling design for the Italian social sample surveys: an application on the population census
The aim of the paper is to show how a new survey design based on Responsive-Adaptive Survey Designs (RADs) can be adapted to the context of...
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Deriving a zero-truncated modelling methodology to analyse capture–recapture data from self-reported social networks
Capture–recapture (CRC) is widely used to estimate the size ( N ) of hidden human populations (e.g., the homeless) from the overlap of sample units...
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Establishing a probability sample in a crisis context: the example of Ukrainian refugees in Germany in 2022
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, more than one million refugees have arrived in Germany. These Ukrainian refugees differ in many...
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Bayesian Variable Shrinkage and Selection in Compositional Data Regression: Application to Oral Microbiome
Microbiome studies generate multivariate compositional responses, such as taxa counts, which are strictly non-negative, bounded, residing within a...
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Bridging techniques in the redesign of the Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth
The design of the Bank of Italy’s Survey on Household Income and Wealth was revised in 2020 to reduce non-sampling errors in households’ income and...
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Exploring Heterogeneity in Happiness: Evidence from a Japanese Longitudinal Survey
The present research explores the heterogeneity in trajectories of subjective well-being of Japanese citizens using longitudinal data collected with...
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Business Prosperity
This chapter provides a brief discussion of the needs of small businesses to assure prosperity. The discussion outlines the three main ways small...
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Market Research
All businesses need information to guide decision-making. Managers trying to understand changing business environments need useable information at...
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Profile-based latent class distance association analyses for sparse tables:application to the attitude of European citizens towards sustainable tourism
Social and behavioural sciences often deal with the analysis of associations for cross-classified data. This paper focuses on the study of the...
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Adaptive and Network Surveys
In this chapter, the units of a finite survey population form a network, potentially linked to one another in a way that facilitates sampling and...
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The local distribution of in-work poverty and sectoral employment: an analysis of local dynamics in Italy
In-work poverty has risen to become a key feature of European societies. In 2017, the percentage of workers at risk of low pay in Italy reached an...
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Integrated assessment of financial knowledge through a latent profile analysis
Knowledge is defined as a multi-faceted latent variable that is not directly measurable but through manifest variables, i.e., items. Latent variable...
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Combining cluster sampling and link-tracing sampling to estimate the size of a hidden population: Asymptotic properties of the estimators
Félix-Medina and Thompson proposed a variant of link-tracing sampling to estimate the size of a hidden population such as drug users or sexual...
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Support provided by elderly in Italy: a hierarchical analysis of ego networks controlling for alter–overlap**
Providing support outside the household can be considered an actual sign of an active social life for the elderly. Adopting an ego–network...
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Artificial Neural Network Model to Forecast Energy Consumption in Wheat Production in India
Energy analysis in agriculture sector require modelling technique that can incorporate complex unknown interactions and non-linearity in systems. In...
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Cybermanufacturing and Digital Twins
Cybermanufacturing is a name given to smart manufacturing systems which are part of the fourth industrial revolution. These systems combine sensor...
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Findings of the Japanese National Character Survey (JNCS)
The Japanese National Character Survey (JNCS) shows longitudinal changes of Japanese attitudes, opinions and values on various topics in daily life...
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On Making Valid Inferences by Integrating Data from Surveys and Other Sources
Survey samplers have long been using probability samples from one or more sources in conjunction with census and administrative data to make valid...