A great reference for survey sampling results. Derivations are mathematically rigorous and not for the faint of heart! I would not suggest this book for beginning grad students, as it is lacking somewhat in readability.

This book provides a graduate level text for survey sampling based on models including superpopulation models. It is a very up-to-date and modern approach and includes material on resampling methods as well as all the classical material on random sampling, stratified sampling and sampling proportional to size. They also provide methods for handling regression problems in the finite population context and even provide names of available software packages. Important topics (particularly for censuses) such as measurement error, nonresponse and imputation methods are all nicely treated. The book contains some practical examples and several classroom exercises.