Coverage error

Coverage error is a kind of error in estimates from a survey. It results from gaps between the sampling frame and the total population. This can lead to biased results and can affect the variance of results.^[1]

Coverage error is a kind of nonsampling error.

References

1. ↑ Scheaffer, Richard L. 1996. Section 5 of Teaching Survey Sampling, by Ronald S. Fecso, William D. Kalsbeek, Sharon L. Lohr, Richard L. Scheaffer, Fritz J. Scheuren, Elizabeth A. Stasny. The American Statistician 50:4 (Nov., 1996), pp 335–337. (on jstor)