Populations where free access is denied pose special problems to the survey researcher. In attempting to make general estimates of the size and composition of the audience in the USSR to Western radio broadcasts, a simulation technique has been developed which provides estimates of underlying data from aggregate results. A methodology is also proposed as an approach to estimating the reliability of the findings, which are drawn from a large, but demographically unrepresentative sample of Soviet travelers to the West.
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