The Kish grid or Kish selection grid is a method for selecting members within a
household
A household consists of two or more persons who live in the same dwelling. It may be of a single family or another type of person group. The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models, and is im ...
to be
interview
An interview is a structured conversation where one participant asks questions, and the other provides answers.Merriam Webster DictionaryInterview Dictionary definition, Retrieved February 16, 2016 In common parlance, the word "interview" ...
ed. It uses a pre-assigned table of random numbers to find the person to be interviewed. It was developed by statistician
Leslie Kish
Leslie Kish (born László Kiss, July 27, 1910 – October 7, 2000) was a Hungarian-American statistician and survey methodologist.. Reprint of an obituary from ''International Statistical Institute (ISI) Newsletter'', Volume 25, No. 73.
Life an ...
in 1949.
It is a technique widely used in
survey research.
However, in telephone surveys, the
next-birthday method (asking to interview whoever in the household is closest to having their next birthday) is sometimes preferred to the Kish grid.
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