Registration Based Sampling

Using Registration-Based Sampling to Improve Pre-Election Polling: A Report to the Smith Richardson Foundation
   Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber, Yale University

   
Enough Already with Random Digit Dialing: Using Registration-Based Sampling to Improve Pre-Election Polling
   Green & Gerber
   
Polls in Black and White: Examining the Differences in the Demographics
of RDD and RBS Surveys in Maryland

   Claudia Deane and Richard Morin, The Washington Post
   
The Big East Two: A Comparison of RBS and RDD polls in the 2002 elections in New York and Pennsylvania
   Doug Schwartz and Clay F. Richards, The Quinnipiac University Polling Institute
   

Improving Pre-election Forecasts From Registration Based Sampling: Using Voter Registration Data to Predict Partisan Vote Intention and to Allocate Undecided Voters
   Christopher B. Mann, Yale University

Christopher Mann is acting as a consultant to VCS on matters related to Registration Based Sampling.

Chris is currently a Research Fellow at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Yale.  For the last 4 years, he has worked closely with Professors Donald Green and Alan Gerber to develop and implement the Registration Based Sampling methodology.  Before Yale, Chris spent 10 years as a political consultant for campaigns at the federal, statewide, and local level in Illinois, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Wyoming, serving as Executive Director of the New Mexico Democratic Party, and working on Capitol Hill.  His work on Registration Based Sampling brings together his training in advanced statistics with his practical political skills to improve sampling methods for election related polling.
   
Getting Pre-Election Surveys Right: The Effects of Advance Letters on Pre-election Forecasting
   Christopher B. Mann, Yale University
   
Registration Based Sampling 2000
   Green & Gerber
   
Analysis: Improving the Accuracy of Election Forecasts
Campaigns & Elections, May, 2004

   Green & Gerber
   
What Is an RBSv05 Random Sample?
   Bill Daly

 

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