Total Survey Design
Total Survey Design is a podcast for explaining the complexities of survey design. This podcast serves a diverse audience, including academics, small business owners, nonprofits, industry professionals, and students. Each season features episodes covering topics from survey utility to sample sizes, and question design to total survey error. Episode content includes insightful discussions, expert interviews, and special event coverage to enhance your survey skills and understanding.
Podcasting since 2024 • 25 episodes
Total Survey Design
Latest Episodes
Survey Weighting: When It Helps And When It Hurts
This episode of the Total Survey Design podcast demystifies the statistical technique of survey weighting (or post-stratification), explaining how it corrects sample imbalances by giving "quiet groups" more influence. The hosts define weighting...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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10:19
Nonresponse Error. Part 1 - Why Response Rate Does Not Necessarily Predict Nonresponse Error
This episode explains the important distinction between response rate and nonresponse error in survey research. Drawing on principles from Dillman et al.(2014), it clarifies that a high response rate does not necessarily mean low nonresponse er...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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5:26
A Conversation with Mark Miazga, Director of University Survey & Assessment Services at U of Minnesota
In this episode, the hosts speak with Mark Miazga, Director of University Survey and Assessment Services at the University of Minnesota, about his journey into survey research. Mark shares how his upbringing in rural Wisconsin and a background ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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A Conversation with Rob Santos, U.S. Census Bureau Director
In this episode, we talk with Robert Santos, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau from 2022 to 2025, about his professional journey and philosophy toward data and public service. Rob shares how his upbringing in a Mexican American community in Sa...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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46:12
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A Critique of Microsoft Word’s Feedback Survey
In this episode, I talk about a survey I didn’t plan to analyze—one that popped up the moment I opened Microsoft Word. Microsoft asked for feedback, and well… I had some. I break down the flaws in their opening question, including directional b...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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12:44
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