Morris Howard Hansen was an American statistician. While at the United States Census Bureau, he was one of the first to develop methods for statistical sampling and made contributions in many areas of surveys and censuses.William N. Hurwitz is the author of Sample Survey Methods and Theory, Volume 1: Methods and Applications, published by Wiley.

• An Elementary Survey of Sampling Principles. Biases and Nonsampling Errors in Survey Results. Sample Designs for Some Common Sampling Problems. Simple Random Sampling. Stratified Random Sampling. Simple One- or Two-Stage Cluster Sampling. Stratified Single or Multi-Stage Cluster Sampling. Control of Variation in Size of Cluster in Estimating Totals,Averages, or Ratios. Multi-Stage Sampling with Large Primary Sampling Units. Estimating Variances. Regression Estimates, Double Sampling, Sampling for Time Series,Systematic Sampling, and Other Sampling Methods. Case Studies--Designs and Results of Some Actual SampleSurveys. Appendix. Index.