Jan A. van den Brakel Design and analysis of experiment embedded in complex surveys
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This research project focuses upon the development of statistical methods for the design and analysis of field experiments embedded in ongoing surveys in order to support research aiming at the improvement of the survey process. Embedded experiments are particularly appropriate if interest is focussed on the quantification of the effect of alternative survey methodologies on estimates of finite population parameters of the survey. In these experiments the sample of an ongoing survey is randomly divided into one relative large subsample and one or more smaller subsamples. The large subsample is assigned to the regular survey and serves, besides publication purposes, as the standard methodology. The other subsamples are assigned to the alternative treatments and are conducted parallel with the regular survey.