The analysis of representativeness of a data set belongs to the standard quality assurance procedures in survey research. The FORS Guide Representativeness of surveys and its analysis by Michael Ochsner, Senior Researcher at FORS and member of the Standing Group of EVS, challenges current practices of the analysis of representativity and suggests a framework to analyse the risk for representation bias taking into account different uses of data.

The Guide is freely available in Open Access nad offers valuable recommendations for researchers and survey pratictioners