Preface: Special Issue on Survey Research on Asia, Africa, Latin America, The Caribbean, and Oceania

Abstract We introduce the Special Issues on Survey Research on Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Oceania, which will comprise two “free to read” volumes: one in 2025 and another in 2026. The articles in this first volume showcase applications from Israel, Brazil, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, and Australia. Topics include empirical likelihood approaches for inference under nonignorable sampling and nonresponse; quarterly poverty estimation using survey and administrative data; small area estimation of child trafficking prevalence; parameters for estimating sample sizes in vaccination coverage cluster surveys (VCSs); and evaluation of bias in nonprobability panels for social research. Together, these contributions illustrate the breadth of survey methodology’s impact, and we hope these issues will serve as a catalyst for future research, knowledge sharing, and international collaboration.