The sampling frame for the American Community Survey (ACS) is based on the Master Address File (MAF), which is the Census Bureau’s inventory of known housing units, group quarters (GQ), transitory ...

Adaptive cluster sampling is a probabilistic design tailored to populations that exhibit rare or spatially clustered features, such as endangered species, epidemic cases or hidden cultural artefacts.

Suggested Citation: "5 Sampling and Estimation." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Reengineering the Census Bureau's Annual Economic Surveys. Washington, DC: The ...