The list of fixed line telephone numbers, used as sampling frame for CATI surveys on households, suffers of an increasing undercoverage rate. Some methodological studies conducted on ISTAT CATI household surveys have pointed out the risk of biased estimates for particular phenomena of interest...

Because of its main characteristics like intangibility, inseparability, heterogenetiy and perishabilty, it is quite hard to understand describe and measure the service quality of municipalities. However, a number of methods for measuring service quality in the application have been developed in...

In the marketing surveys and applied sociology quantitative estimates are typically based on asymptotic characteristics of sample frequencies. To overcome the problem of heterogeneity of population «quota sampling» method that reflects the main categories of the population structure is...

We provide corrections for Emura and Konno (2010). We also numerically verify the corrected formulae. Appendix gives a real data used for numerical analysis.

In this paper we propose a new method of single imputation, reconstruction, and estimation of non-reported, incorrect or excluded values both in the target and in the auxiliary variables where the first is on ratio or interval scale and the last are heterogeneous in measurement scale. Our...

The idea of this research is to combine the influence of personal brand with business needs. This article is a personal brand's analysis on how personal brand influences consumer interest in products/services. An experiment is carried out on the content viewed by consumers using eye-tracking...

We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are being affected by the covid-19 pandemic. We document several facts. First, job loss has been significantly larger than implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million...

We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are being affected by the covid-19 pandemic. We document several facts. First, job loss has been significantly larger than implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million...

We use a large-scale representative survey of households from October 19-21 that elicits respondents' expectations about the presidential election's outcome as well as their economic expectations to document several new facts. First, people disagree strongly about the likely outcome of the...