“…Later, this technique was extended by Yates (1949), Patterson (1950), Tikkiwal (1951), Eckler (1955), Rao and Graham (1964), Gupta (1979), Binder and Hidiroglou (1988), Kish (1998), McLaren and Steel (2000), Singh, Kennedy and Wu (2001), Steel and McLaren (2002) among others. Sen (1971Sen ( , 1973 applied this theory in designing the estimators of population mean using information on two or more auxiliary variables which was readily available on ESTIMATION OF POPULATION MEAN UNDER NON-RESPONSE 150 previous occasion in two-occasion successive sampling. Singh, Singh and Shukla (1991), made an efficient use of auxiliary variable on current occasion and subsequently Singh (2003) uses this methodology for hoccasion successive sampling in estimation of current population mean.…”