Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section, American Statistical Association (1987)

Invited Papers by Topic

I. THE MISSING, THE HOMELESS, AND THE VICTIM: COUNTING THE HARD TO COUNT
Chair:
HELENA CHMURA KRAEMER, Stanford University

Estimating the Number of Homeless in Chicago - PETER H. ROSSI, University of Massachusetts at Amherst ............... 1

Surveillance and Monitoring of Human Rights Violations - JOSE QUIROGA, MARIA VICTORIA ZUNZUNEGUI, RANDY B. REITER, ANA DEUTSCH, University of California, Berkeley ............... 8

Estimating the Size of an Average Personal Network and of an Event Subpopulation: Some Empirical Results - H. RUSSELL BERNARD, University of Florida; EUGENE C. JOHNSEN, University of California; PETER D. KILLWORTH, Hooke Institute, Oxford; SCOTT ROBINSON, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico ............... 17

Discussion - EUGENE P. ERICKSEN, Temple University ............... 26

 

 

II. MEASURING THE CONCENTRATION OF PERSONAL WEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES, 1962-1983
Organizer: DANIEL SKELLY, Internal Revenue Service
Chair: B.K. ATROSTIC, U.S. Department of Treasury

Reconciling Flow-of-Funds and Survey-Based Measures of Household Wealth - ROBERT B. AVERY, GREGORY E. ELLIEHAUSEN, ARTHUR B. KENNICKELL, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ............... 28

Household Income and Wealth: Sample Design and Estimation for the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances - STEVEN G. HEERINGA, RICHARD T. CURTIN, University of Michigan ............... 38

Piecing Together Personal Wealth Distributions - FRITZ SCHEUREN, JANET McCUBBIN, Internal Revenue Service ............... 46

 

III. POLICE HANDLING OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Organizer/Chair: KINLEY LARNTZ, Washington State University

When Random Assignment Fails: Some Lessons from the Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment - RICHARD A. BERK, GORDON K. SMYTH, University of California, Santa Barbara; LAWRENCE W. SHERMAN, University of Maryland ............... 57

Random Assignment: Practical Considerations from Field Experiments - FRANKLYN W. DUNFORD, University of Colorado ............... 64

Discussion - MICHAEL L. DENNIS, Northwestern University ............... 70

 

IV. THEME SESSION: APPLICATIONS OF RECENT METHODOLOGY IN TIME SERIES METHODS FOR SURVEY ESTIMATION
Chair: PHILLIP KOTT,
National Agricultural Statistics Service

Laspeyres Price Index Estimation Under an Autoregressive Model - RICHARD VALLIANT, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 73

Time Series Methods for Survey Estimation - WILLIAM R. BELL, U.S. Bureau of the Census; STEVEN C. HILLMER, University of Kansas ............... 83

Application of Time Series Methods to Ratio Estimation in Repeated Surveys - K.P. SRINATH, B. QUENNEVILLE, Statistics Canada ............... 93

 

V. COMPLIANCE AND COST CONTROL: TAXES, WELFARE, AND STUDENT LOANS
Organizer: ANN DRYDEN WITTE, Wellesley College
Chair: ROBERT F. BORUCH, Center for Advance Study in the Behavioral Sciences

Tax Compliance Research: Models, Data and Methods - ANN DRYDEN WITTE, Wellesley College; HELEN TAUCHEN, University of North Carolina ............... 101

 

VI. MANPOWER EXPERIMENTS: DESIGN, EXECUTION, ANALYSIS
Organizer/Chair: RAYMOND J. CARROLL, University of North Carolina

The Role of Randomized Experiments in Employment and Training Evaluations - REBECCA A. MAYNARD, Mathematica Policy Research, Incorporated ............... 109

The Experimental Testing of the Minority Female Single Parent Program - PHOEBE H. COTTINGHAM, AIDA RODIGUEZ, The Rockefeller Foundation ............... 114

Using Random Assignment to Evaluate an Ongoing Program: The National JTPA Evaluation - LARRY L. ORR, Abt Associates Incorporated; HOWARD S. BLOOM, New York University; MICHAEL E. BORUS, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation ............... 122

 

VII. IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION STATISTICS FOR POLICY PURPOSES
Organizer: CHARLES D. COWAN, Center for Educational Statistics
Chair: VINCENT P. BARABBA, General Motors Corporation

Redesigning the Collection of National Education Statistics - EMERSON J. ELLIOTT, CHARLES D. COWAN, Center for Education Statistics ............... 132

Can Reporting on Educational Indicators Serve as a Catalyst for the Improvement of Educational Achievement? A Visionary Exploration - PASCAL D. FORGIONE, JR., JOAN B. BARON, Connecticut State Department of Education ............... 138

Discussion - GEORGE E. HALL, Baseline Data Corporation ............... 148

 

Contributed Papers by Topic

I. INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES IN CENSUS & SURVEY IMPLEMENTATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Organizer: KAREN A. STANECKI, U.S. Bureau of the Census
Chair: ROBERT BARTRAM, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Processing Samples from Censuses in Developing Countries - KAREN A. STANECKI, SUSAN ENEA ADAMCHAK, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 149

Data Edit Error Analysis - DAVID J. MEGILL, SANDRA ROWLAND, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 154

The Use of Microcomputers for Census Processing in Developing Countries - VIVIAN TORO, THOMAS C. MELANEY, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 160

Measuring the Efficiency of Implicit Stratification in Multistage Sample Surveys - DAVID J. MEGILL, ENRIQUE E. GOMEZ, U.S. Bureau of the Census; ALFREDO BALMACEDA, MARIO CASTILLO, Ministry of Agriculture, Peru ............... 166

Health Surveys in Africa: Developing Standarized Procedures - WANDA KELLY DOUGHERTY, STEVEN C. TOURKIN, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 172

 

II. SAMPLE DESIGN FOR EXPERIMENTS, MULTIPURPOSE SURVEYS, AND LONGITUDINAL STUDIES
Chair: CARL N. MORRIS, University of Texas

Sample Sizes for Social Experiments - GEORGE CAVE, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation ............... 178

A Model-Based Justification for Survey Weights - CHARLES H. ALEXANDER, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 183

Sample Size Determination for Longitudinal Surveys - EARL BRYANT, Consultant, DAVID R. MORGANSTEIN, Westat, Incorporated ............... 189

Design Optimization with Multiple Objectives - JAMES R. CHROMY, Research Triangle Institute ............... 194

An Application of Multi-Purpose Survey Sampling - WILLIAM E. WINKLER, Energy Information Administration ............... 200

 

III. INCOME, PROGRAM PARTICIPATION, AND EXPEDITURES
Chair: ROBERT F. BORUCH, Northwestern University

Evaluation of Missing Wave Data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) - VICKI J. HUGGINS, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 205

Response Errors Around the Seam: Analysis of Change in a Panel with Overlapping Reference Periods - DANIEL H. HILL, University of Michigan ............... 210

Examination of Relationships Between Actual and Reported Changes in the SIPP - LYNN WEIDMAN, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 216

Data Quality of the Survey of Income and Program Participation - KAREN E. KING, RITA J. PETRONI, RAJENDRA P. SINGH, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 221

Respondent Characteristics and Recall Bias in the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey - ADRIANA R. SILBERSTEIN, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 227

 

IV. PRIVACY PROTECTION AND DISCLOSURE AVOIDANCE
Organizer: WENDY ALVEY, Internal Revenue Service
Chair: ROBERT PEARSON, Social Science Research Council

Disclosure Avoidance Techniques in the Canadian Censuses of Population and Agriculture - M.J. MARCH, D.A. NORRIS, Statistics Canada ............... 233

A Further Development of the Randomized Response Technique for Masking Dichotomous Variables - JAY JONG-IK KIM, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 239

Assessing Quality of Randomized Response: Were Instructions Followed? - JAMES SCHMEIDLER, New York State Division of Substance Abuse Services ............... 245

Discussion - NANCY L. SPRUILL, U.S. Department of Defense ............... 250

 

V. MEASUREMENT ISSUES IN SAMPLE SURVEYS, I
Chair: ELIZABETH A. MARTIN, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Optimal Allocation to Control Questionnaire Design Variance in Sample Surveys - GAD NATHAN, Hebrew University; MONROE G. SIRKEN, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 252

Improving the Design of the Decennial Census Questionnaire - THERESA J. DeMAIO, ELIZABETH A. MARTIN, ELIZABETH PAGE SIGMAN, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 256

Using Response Protocols to Identify Problems in the U.S. Census Long Form - JUDITH T. LESSLER, Research Triangle Institute; MIMI HOLT, Survey Research Consultant ............... 262

Information Structures in Survey Instruments - NAOMI SAGER, PAUL MATTICK, JR., CAROL FRIEDMAN, EMILE C. CHI, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University ............... 267

A Model for Coarse Grouping with Application to Survey Data - DANIEL F. HEITJAN, University of California, Los Angeles; DAVID M. REBOUSSIN, The RAND Corporation ............... 271

Effects on Level and Quality of Response of the Inclusion of "Don't Know" Boxes in Factual Questions in a Mail Questionnaire - GAIL S. POE, ISADORE SEEMAN, National Center for Health Statistics; JOSEPH McLAUGHLIN, National Cancer Institute; ERIC MEHL, MICHAEL DIETZ, Westat, Incorporated ............... 277

 

VI. METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN ADMINISTRATiVE RECORD RESEARCH
Organizer: WENDY ALVEY, Internal Revenue Service
Chair: STEVE G. HEERINGA, University of Michigan

Measuring Income for Developing and Reviewing Individual Tax Law Changes: Exploration of Alternative Concepts - SUSAN HOSTETTER, Internal Revenue Service ............... 282

Family Data from the Canadian Personal Income Tax File - EDOUARD AUGER, Statistics Canada ............... 288

The Selection of Returns for Audit by the IRS - JOHN P. HINIKER, Internal Revenue Service ............... 294

Research into a Register of Residential Addresses for Urban Areas of Canada - J. DOUGLAS DREW, JOHN B. ARMSTRONG, RUTH DIBBS, Statistics Canada ............... 300

Osculatory Interpolation Revisited - H. LOCK OH, FRITZ J. SCHEUREN, Internal Revenue Service ............... 306

Predicting Edit Outcomes: The Strategic Use of Imputation in Estimating Corporate Income Statistics - JOHN L. CZAJKA, Mathematica Policy Research, Incorporated ............... 312

Discussion - ROBERT E. FAY, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 318

 

VII. ESTIMATING WEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES
Organizer: WENDY ALVEY, Internal Revenue Service
Chair: MARTIN H. DAVID, University of Wisconsin

Improving Wealth Estimates Derived from Estate Tax Data - JANET G. McCUBBIN, Internal Revenue Service ............... 320

Further Estimates of Personal Wealth in the United States Using the Estate Multiplier Technique - MARVIN SCHWARTZ, Internal Revenue Service ............... 326

Intergenerational Wealth Study: Early Results and Prospects - KATHLEEN MEDVE, Internal Revenue Service ............... 332

Discussion - JENNY BOURNE WAHL, U.S. Department of Treasury ............... 338

 

VIII. NEW APPROACHES TO OLD PROBLEMS, I
Chair: JOSEPH KADANE, Carnegie Mellon University

Small Area Estimates of Proportions via Empirical Bayes Techniques - BRENDA MacGIBBON, THOMAS J. TOMBERLIN, Concordia University ............... 341

A Bayesian Approach to Small Domain Estimation - KUNG-JONG LUI, Centers for Disease Control; WILLIAM G. CUMBERLAND, University of California, Los Angeles ............... 347

A Generalized Dirichlet Multinomial Model for Categorical Data with Extra Variation - JEFFREY R. WILSON, Arizona State University ............... 353

Properties of Two Newly-Defined Distributions and Their Relationships to Other Distributions - JIANG-MING WU, University of Wisconsin, Madison ............... 356

 

IX. SURVEYS AND STATISTICS BY KIDS: THE U.S. AND THE U.K.
Organizer/Chair: ROBERT E. BORUCH, Northwestern University

The Delaware Voter Preference Survey Using Secondary School Students - CAROL JOYCE BLUMBERG, Winona State University; JOHN H. SCHUENEMEYER, University of Delaware; JAMES M. LUCAS, E.I. duPont de Nemours & Company, Incorporated ............... 362

Teaching of Survey Research Techniques in an Interdisciplinary Middle School Setting - THOMAS C.F. GOFF, George V. Kirk Middle School-Newark, Delaware ............... 368

Student Surveys in the United Kingdom Annual Applied Statistics Competition - ANNE S. HAWKINS, University of London ............... 372

Where Does the Money Go? A Children's Survey - HEATHER DEE MORROW, Hocker Grove Middle School, Shawnee Mission, Kansas ............... 375

The "Unknown Student" Survey - JUDITH S. ZAWOJEWSKI, National College of Education; JERI NOWAKOWSKI, Northern Illinois University; ROBERT F. BORUCH, Northwestern University ............... 378

 

X. ANALYSES AND IMPLICATIONS OF IMPERFECT SURVEY DATA
Chair: CHARLES D. COWAN, Center for Educatational Statistics

Evaluating the Effect of Nonresponse on International Travel Statistics - KATHRYN A. MILLER, LINDA LUI, ALVIN SATIN, Statistics Canada ............... 381

Categorical Auto-Regressive Models for Analysing Panel Survey Data - AVINASH C. SINGH, G. LEMAITRE, Statistics Canada ............... 390

Coverage Implications of a Poststratification Adjustment on Estimates from a Household Survey - STEVEN L. BOTMAN, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 395

Nonresponse Bias in Expense Data from the 1985 National Nursing Home Survey - ESTHER HING, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 401

Recent Results on the Noise Addition Method for Database Security - PATRICK TENDICK, NORMAN S. MATLOFF, University of California, Davis ............... 406

 

XI. MEASUREMENT ISSUES IN SAMPLE SURVEYS, II
Chair: RODERICK J.A. LITTLE, University of California, Los Angeles

The Effects of Measurement Errors on Variance Estimation - LAWRENCE R. ERNST, KIRK M. WOLTER, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 410

Unequal Probability Sampling Under Measurement Error - PROMOD K. CHANDHOK, Ohio University ............... 416

Some Conceptual Problems in the Current Population Survey - ELIZABETH A. MARTIN, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 420

Using the Bounding Interviews in NCS - HA H. NGUYEN, CHARLES ALEXANDER, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 425

Response Error: Correlation Between Estimation and Episodic Recall Tasks - NANCY A. MATHIOWETZ, National Center for Health Services Research ............... 430

Chronic Pain Screening Questionnaires for General Population Surveys: A Review - KATHLEEN M. DANCHIK, THOMAS F. DRURY, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 436

 

XII. THE 1990 CENSUS AND BEYOND SURVEY RESEARCH
Organizer: DAVID C. WHITFORD, U.S. Bureau of the Census
Chair: PETER A. BOUNPANE, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Decennial Enumeration - RACHEL F. BROWN, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 441

Research Program for the 1990 Decennial Census - DAVID C. WHITFORD, DEBORAH A. HARNER, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 447

1990 Data Collection and Processing Design - DEBORAH A. HARNER, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 453

Residence Rules and Processing Plans for 1990 Census - EDISON GORE, JAMES HUGGINS, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 457

The Tiger System: Geographic Improvements for the 1990 Census and Beyond - LINDA M. FRANZ, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 463

Preliminary Coverage Improvement Results from Tests for the 1990 Census - ROBERT G. EDSON, JAMES B. TREAT, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 469

The Pre-Enumeration Survey of the 1986 Census of Central Los Angeles County - GLENN S. WOLFGANG, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 475

 

XIII. ESTIMATING VARIANCES FOR SAMPLE SURVEYS, I
Chair: JOHN M. BRICK, Westat, Incorporated

Some Aspects of Estimating Variances by Half-Sample Replication in CPS - LAWRENCE R. ERNST, TODD R. WILLIAMS, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 480

The Design Consistent Regression Estimator and Its Conditional Variance - PHILLIP S. KOTT, National Agricultural Statistics Service ............... 486

Modified Balanced Repeated Replications - DAVID R. JUDKINS, Westat, Incorporated ............... 492

Variances for a Rotating Sample from a Changing Population - NORMAND L. LANIEL, Statistics Canada ............... 496

Sample Size Selection for a Class of Ratio Estimates: Brand Share Estimation - NICHOLAS A. ZAINO, JR., Eastman Kodak Company ............... 501

Variances for Polychotomous Logistic Regression Using Complex Survey Data - SHELLEY B. BULL, University of Toronto; LINDA L. PEDERSON, University of Western Ontario ............... 507

 

XIV. USE OF ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS FOR BUSINESS RESEARCH
Organizer: WENDY L. ALVEY, Internal Revenue Service
Chair: ROGER BUGENHAGEN, U.S. Bureau of the Census

The Use of Administrative Data for Initial and Subsequent Profiles of Economic Entities - COLLEEN CLARK, ROBERT LUSSIER, Statistics Canada ............... 513

Record Linkage and Imputation Strategies in the 1982 Corporation Employment and Payroll Study - GAIL MOGLEN, CHARLES DAY, THOMAS B. PETSKA, Internal Revenue Service ............... 519

Some Economic and Accounting Measures of Business Activity by Size of Firm - DAVID HIRSCHBERG, Small Business Administration ............... 525

Experiences in the Coding and Sampling of Administrative Data - MICHAEL J. COLLEDGE, VICTOR ESTEVAO, PIERRE FOY, Statistics Canada ............... 529

Evaluation of Estimators for Employment Level and Change in Establishment Surveys - THOMAS J. GRZESIAK, KENNON R. COPELAND, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 535

Using Business Establishment Size in an Environmental Survey - ROBERT P. CLICKNER, Westat, Incorporated; JIM CRAIG, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ............... 541

 

XV. THE QUALITY OF SURVEY DATA AND ANALYSIS
Chair: CHARLES ALEXANDER, U.S. Bureau of the Census

The Use of Standards in Survey Estimation - DANIEL G. HORVITZ, RALPH E. FOLSOM, L.M. LAVANGE, Research Triangle Institute ............... 546

Developing Process Controls for Surveys and Censuses - DAVID H. DISKIN, PETER KARCHER, MICHAEL MERSCH, PAUL PAVNICA, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 552

Toward the Development of an Ordered Set of Data Quality Categories - CLYDE TUCKER, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 558

Misuses of Statistical Techniques in Advertising Claim Substantiation Surveys - SOLOMON DUTKA, LESTER R. FRANKEL, Audits & Surveys, Incorporated ............... 564

Statistics in Work Quality Measurement: Licensing Adult and Child Care Facilities - RICHARD BOLSTEIN, JOHN D.R. COLE, George Mason University ............... 568

 

XVI. THE HARD TO MEASURE AND HARD TO COUNT
Chair: MARGARET BOONE, U.S. General Accounting Office

Hard-to-Enumerate Areas: Identification, Challenges, Strategies - MARY ELLEN BEACH, JOHN W. MARSHALL, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 573

Some Optimality Problems When Estimating Household Data on the Basis of a "Primary," Stratified Sample of Individuals - BENGT ROSEN, Statistics Sweden ............... 577

 

XVII. NEW APPROACHES TO OLD PROBLEMS, II
Chair: DAVID C. WHITFORD, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Survey Design in the Producer Price Index - KIMBERLEY DAILEY HILL, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 583

Composite and Model Based Index Estimators - JOHN G. KOVAR, Statistics Canada ............... 589

Evaluation of Design Effects for the Mexican American Portion of the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey - JOSEFINA A. LAGO, Westat, Incorporated; JAMES T. MASSEY, TRENA EZZATI, CLIFFORD JOHNSON, ROBINSON FULWOOD, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 595

Optimal Two Phase Sampling for Estimating the Exploitable Biomass of a Fishery Accounting for Nonsampling Errors - PHILIP J. SMITH, International Pacific Halibut Commission, Washington ............... 601

Using Test Populations to Develop Balanced Agenda - STANLEY L. WARNER, York University ............... 606

Variance, Entropy and Uncertainty Measure - YUAN WEI, People's University of China ............... 609

Using Administrative Records to Assess Return on Investment at a Publicly Supported College - GERARD G. WALTER, MICHAEL SERVE, WILLIAM WELSH, National Technical Institute for the Deaf; DOROTHEA RILEY, Internal Revenue Service ............... 611

 

XVIII. TELEPHONE SURVEYS, I
Chair: MICHAEL DENNIS, Northwestern University

Generalizations of the Mitofsky-Waksberg Technique for Random Digit Dialing: Some Added Topics - RICHARD F. POTTHOFF, Burlington Industries ............... 615

Time of Day for CATI Contacts in Agricultural Surveys - WILLIAM D. WARDE, Oklahoma State University ............... 621

The Effect of Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing on Response Inconsistency - CAROL L. KOSARY, JOHN PAUL SOMMERS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 627

The Effects of Advanced Letters on Response Rates in Linked Telephone Surveys - ROBERT M. GROVES, University of Michigan; CECELIA B. SNOWDEN, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 633

 

XIX. MISSING VALUES: UNDERSTANDING, IMPUTATION, AND HOT DECKS
Chair: FRITZ J. SCHEUREN, Internal Revenue Service

Handling Missing Data in the 1986 Test of Adjustment Related Operations - NATHANIEL SCHENKER, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 639

Missing Data Adjustments for Partially-Scaled Variables - RODERICK J.A. LITTLE, HONG-LIN SU, University of California, Los Angeles ............... 644

An Examination of Imputation for Asset Items in the New Beneficiary Survey - ROBERT L. SANTOS, CARLOS G. LAZARO, Temple University ............... 650

 

XX. HYPOTHESIS TESTING AND FORECASTING BASED ON COMPLEX SAMPLES
Chair: WAYNE A. FULLER, Iowa State University

Applications of Superpopulation Models to Estimation in Repeated Surveys - STEPHEN M. WOODRUFF, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 656

Nested Error Models for the Objective Yield Survey - MARK REISER, Iowa State University; RON FECSO, U.S. Drug Administration; KATHLEEN M. TAYLOR, AT&T Bell Laboratories ............... 662

Optimum Filtering of the Monthly Single Family Price Index - DONALD M. LUERY, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 668

Nonlinear Regression Analysis for Complex Survey Data - HSIEN-MING HUNG, Wichita State University ............... 674

Additional Evaluation of Chi-Square Methods for Complex Samples - ROBERT E. FAY, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 680

Multivariate Testing in Stratified Simple Random Sample Surveys: Hog & Pig Estimates as Affected by Changing Survey Reference Dates - BRADLEY V. PAFFORD, National Agricultural Statistics Service ............... 686

 

XXI. HEALTH SURVEY DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
Chair: KAREN A. STANECKI, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Sample Design of the National Medical Expenditure Survey-Household Component - STEVEN B. COHEN, National Center for Health Services Research; RALPH DiGAETANO, JOSEPH WAKSBERG, Westat, Incorporated ............... 691

The Impact of Design Features Upon the Redesigned National Health Interview Survey - VAN L. PARSONS, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 697

A Multi-Mode Longitudinal Study: The Longitudinal Study of Aging - JOSEPH E. FITTI, MARY GRACE KOVAR, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 703

Statistically Important Features in Myocardial Infarction - MOHAMMED A. SHAYIB, Kuwait University; MAREI H. AYSHA, Al-Jahra Hospital, Kuwait ............... 709

Estimation of Vaccine Efficacy Using the Case-Exposure Method - DONNA R. BROGAN, ALVIN H. RAMPEY, JR., Emory University; MAC W. OTTEN, MICHAEL S. DEMING, Centers for Disease Control ............... 715

On Developing a National Sample of Women Early in Pregnancy - WILLIAM D. KALSBEEK, SHARON Y. CORNELL, PATRICIA S. TENNIS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ............... 720

 

 

XXII. ESTIMATING VARIANCES FOR SAMPLE SURVEYS, II
Chair: DAVID R. JUDKINS, Westat, Incorporated

A Direct Estimation of Intracluster Correlation - JAI WON CHOI, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 726

Finite Population Correction for Replication Estimates of Variance - PAUL A. FLYER, Westat, Incorporated ............... 732

Variance Estimation Using Auxiliary Information Under a One Unit Per Stratum Sample Design - ELIZABETH T. HUANG, CARY T. ISAKI, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 737

Estimating the Variance of the Horvitz-Thompson Estimator in Variable Probability, Systematic Samples - STEPHEN V. STEHMAN, Cornell University; W. SCOTT OVERTON, Oregon State University ............... 743

Mean Squared Error of Estimators Using Two Stage Sampling for Stratification and Prior Information - DONALD B. WHITE, State University of New York at Buffalo ............... 749

A Simple Approximate Variance Estimate for a Complex Unequal Probability Sample Survey - GLENN J. GALFOND, MARY E. GARVIN, JAMES C. THOMPSON, Price Waterhouse ............... 755

 

XXIII. TELEPHONE SURVEYS, II
Chair: CAROL L. KOSARY, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Effectiveness and Costs of Special Data Collection Efforts in a Telephone Survey of Physicians - SARA THRAN, LORAYN OLSON, American Medical Association; RICHARD STROUSE, Mathematica Policy Research ............... 761

Developing Cost Models for CATI Surveys - KAREN J. BRYANT, LYNN WEIDMAN, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 767

The Impact of Telephone Interviewing on Data from the American Housing Survey - RANDALL J. PARMER, HERTZ HUANG, DENNIS J. SCHWANZ, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 772

Using CATI in the Current Population Survey - JOHN M. BUSHERY, LYNN WEIDMAN, STEVEN M. BRILEY, SUSAN CIOCHETTO, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 778

 

XXIV. NEW APPROACHES TO OLD PROBLEMS, III
Chair: KIMBERLEY D. DAILEY, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Adaptive Sampling - STEVEN K. THOMPSON, University of Alaska-Fairbanks ............... 784

Additional Uses for Keyfitz Selection - J. MICHAEL BRICK, DAVID R. MORGANSTEIN, CHARLES L. WOLTER, Westat, Incorporated ............... 787

Notes on a Composite Size Measure for Self-Weighting Samples in Multiple Domains - R.E. FOLSOM, FRANK J. POTTER, STEPHEN R. WILLIAMS, Research Triangle Institute ............... 792

On the Stratification of Skewed Populations - PIERRE LAVALLEE, MICHEL A. HIDIROGLOU, Statistics Canada ............... 797

 

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS—POSTER SESSIONS

Variance Estimation in New Residential Construction Survey - JOHN ALEONG, DIANTHA B. HOWARD, THOMAS PATTERSON, University of Vermont ............... 805

Estimating Variance as Function of Cluster Size - DAVID J. FITCH, National Center for Health Services Research ............... 809

Factors Influencing Participation in a Multi-Stage Study of Head Injury: Potential Biases in the Vietnam Head Injury Study - BRUCE S. JONAS, Walter Reed Army Medical Center; KAREN SCHWAB, ANDRES M. SALAZAR, Uniformed Services University of the Health Services ............... 812

Nursing Homes in the U.S.: Findings from the 1986 Inventory of Long-Term Care Places - CURT D. MUELLER, D.E.B. POTTER, National Center for Health Services Research ............... 818

The 1986 Inventory of Long-Term Care Places as a Sampling Frame - D.E.B. POTTER, STEVEN B. COHEN, CURT D. MUELLER, National Center for Health Services Research ............... 823

Questionnaire Design Research in a Laboratory Setting: Results of Testing Cancer Risk Factor Questions - PATRICIA N. ROYSTON, DEBORAH H. BERCINI, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 829

ASA Annual Survey of Chapter Activities - JEFFREY H. SCHWARTZ, The Upjohn Company; BRENDA G. COX, Research Triangle Institute ............... 834

The Impact of Couple's Discussion of Desired Family Size on Predicting Fertility - NAGAMBAL SHAH, Spelman College ............... 837