The Kish grid or Kish selection grid is a method for selecting members within a household to be interviewed. It uses a pre-assigned table of random numbers to find the person to be interviewed. It was developed by statistician Leslie Kish in 1949.[1]

It is a technique widely used in survey research.[2]

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  1. ^ Laurie, Heather (2004), "Kish Grid", in Lewis-Beck, Michael S.; Bryman, Alan; Futing Liao, Tim (eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, doi:10.4135/9781412950589, ISBN 978-0-7619-2363-3
  2. ^ Marshall, Gordan (1998). "Kish grid". A Dictionary of Sociology. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved March 26, 2013.

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  • McBurney, Peter (April 1988), "On Transferring Statistical Techniques Across Cultures: The Kish Grid", Current Anthropology, 29 (2): 323–325, doi:10.1086/203642, JSTOR 2743408
  • Salmon, Charles T.; Nichols, John Spicer (1983), "The Next-Birthday Method for Respondent Selection", Public Opinion Quarterly, 47 (2): 270–276, doi:10.1086/268785, JSTOR 2749026
  • Gaziano, Cecilie (2005), "Comparative Analysis of Within-Household Respondent Selection Techniques", Public Opinion Quarterly, 69 (1): 124–157, doi:10.1093/poq/nfi006