We consider how judgment and statistical methods should be integrated for time-series forecasting. Our review of … judgment; combining forecasts; revising extrapolations; rule-based forecasting; and econometric forecasting. This literature … the future as well as for the past, we recommend rule- based forecasting or econometric methods. …

and to supply missing information. Application of the five-step procedure to the issue of return postage in mail surveys …

This paper investigates the usefulness of Italian consumer surveys as estimation and forecasting tool over the period … household surveys improves both the goodness- of-fit of consumption equations and their forecasting performances. It is …

Public opinion surveys conducted since 1977 in Japan are usually interpreted as showing decreasing support among the … take proper account of the changing levels of ODA funding over time to demonstrate that changing survey response rates … decades. We do this by reverse engineering survey results to derive the Japanese population’s preference distribution for ODA …

surveys about the nomination of Clarence Thomas. In this situation, prior theory allowed us to predict the direction of … changes, surveys had been conducted by a number of organizations, and substantial information was available about the … methodology used in the surveys. As a result we concluded that the deteriorating opinions of Thomas were real. …

strong positive impact on the response rate in mail surveys. One of these studies is described here and an attempt is made to … generalizations should be of value for the design of mail survey studies. …

book. I keep this book near me when working on surveys, and I suspect it will have a strong influence on survey research … happened? Both Dr. X and I had been influenced by Dillman’s Mail and Telephone Surveys. Despite its flaws, it is a worthwhile …

three years. Relying upon survey data collected in 1998 and 1999, this paper explores the role of the IMF in Korea, as …The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played an important role in restructuring the Korean economy over the past … perceived by its citizens. In the eyes of the Korean people, the IMF helped their economy to recover from the crisis. However …