The journal Survey Methodology has established in 2001 an annual invited paper series in honor of the late Joseph Waksberg to recognize his outstanding contributions to survey statistics and methodology. Each year a prominent survey statistician is chosen by a four-person selection committee appointed by Survey Methodology and the American Statistical Association. The selected statistician is invited to write a paper for Survey Methodology that reviews the development and current state of an important topic in the field of survey statistics and methodology. The recipient of the Waksberg Award is also invited to give the Waksberg Invited Address. The 2023 winner of the Waksberg Award is Prof. Ray Chambers from the University of Wollongong. He will give his Waksberg Invited Address at the 2023 World Statistics Congress in Ottawa.

Sample surveys, as a tool for administration and research, have been employed for over a century. In that time, they have primarily served as tools for collecting data for enumerative purposes, i.e., for describing the observable characteristics of a well-defined finite population. Estimation of these characteristics have been typically based on weighting and repeated sampling, or design-based, inference.