A Method for Weighting Survey Samples of Low-Incidence Voters
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In this paper we describe a method for weighting surveys of a sub-sample of voters. We focus on the case of Latino voters. And we analyze data for three surveys: two opinion polls leading up to the 2004 presidential election, and the national exit poll from the 2004 election. We take advantage of much data when it is available, the large amount of data describing the demographics of Hispanic citizens. And we combine this with a model of turnout of those citizens to improve our estimate of the demographics characteristics of Hispanic voters. We show that alternate weighting schemes can substantively alter inferences about population parameters.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005