Samaneh Beheshtizadeh, Hamidreza Navvabpour,
Volume 25, Issue 1 (1-2021)
Abstract
Evidence-based management and development planning relies on official statistics. There are some obstacles that make it impossible to do a single-mode survey. These obstacles are the sampling frame, time, budget, and accuracy of measurement of each mode. Always we can not use a single-mode survey because of these factors. So we need to use other data collection methods to overcome these obstacles. This method is called the mixed-mode survey, which is a combination of several modes. In this article, we show that mixed-mode surveys can produce more accurate official statistics than single-mode surveys.