Kish grid

The Kish grid is a method for selecting members within a household to be interviewed. In telephone surveys, the next-birthday method is sometimes preferred to the Kish grid.

References

• "On Transferring Statistical Techniques Across Cultures: The Kish Grid", Peter McBurney, Current Anthropology, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Apr., 1988), pp. 323–325 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2743408

• "A Procedure for Objective Respondent Selection within the Household" Leslie Kish, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 44, No. 247 (Sep., 1949), pp. 380–387 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2280236

• "The Next-Birthday Method of Respondent Selection" Charles T. Salmon and John Spicer Nichols, The Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Summer, 1983), pp. 270–276 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2749026

• "Comparative Analysis of Within-Household Respondent Selection Techniques" Cecilie Gaziano, Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol 69. No 1. (2005), pp. 124–157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfi006