I. Time Series Analysis of Survey Data
Chair/Organizer: MALAY GHOSH, University of Florida
Small Area Estimation by Combining Time Series
and Cross-Sectional Data - J.N.K. RAO, MINGYU YU, Carleton University
............... 1
A Time Series Approach to Small Area Estimation
- RICHARD B. TILLER, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 10
An Overview of Selected Components of the 1990
Census Research, Evaluation and Experimental Program - HENRY F. WOLTMAN,
U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 20
The 1990 Post-Enumeration Survey: Operations
and New Results - HOWARD HOGAN, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
28
Forward from 1990: Designing the 2000 Census
- SUSAN MISKURA, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 38
Morris Hansen Memorial Session—Opening
Remarks - HAROLD NISSELSON, Westat, Inc. ............... 47
Discussion - CHARLES H. ALEXANDER, U.S.
Bureau of the Census. ............... 49
Discussion - RICHARD VALLIANT, U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics ............... 54
Respondent Reactions to Reinterviews -
SEYMOUR SUDMAN, University of Illinois, Champaign; JOHNNY BLAIR, University
of Maryland ............... 57
Estimation of Measurement Bias Using a Model
Prediction Approach - PAUL BIEMER, Research Triangle Institute; DALE ATKINSON,
National Agricultural Statistics Service ............... 64
Toward A Quality Improvement System for Field
Interviewing: Putting Content Reinterview Into Perspective - PATRICK J.
CANTWELL, JOHN M. BUSHERY, U.S. Bureau of the Census; PAUL P. BIEMER,
Research Triangle Institute ............... 74
The Reinterview Evaluation of the 1990 Post
Enumeration Survey - KIRSTEN K. WEST, MARY H. MULRY, U.S. Bureau of the
Census ............... 84
Response Trends in Europe - W.F. DE HEER,
A.Z. ISRAELS, Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics ............... 92
Correlates of Nonresponse in Personal Visit
Surveys - ROBERT M. GROVES, University of Michigan; MICK P. COUPER, U.S.
Bureau of the Census ............... 102
Methodological Issues in the Estimation of
the Distribution of Household Net Worth: Results from the 1989 Survey of Consumer
Finances - ARTHUR B. KENNICKELL, Federal Reserve System; R. LOUISE WOODBURN,
Internal Revenue Service ............... 112
Discussion - PAUL L. MENCHIK, Michigan
State University ............... 122
Survey Research and the Public - IRENE
HESS, University of Michigan; JUDITH TANUR, State University of New York at
Stony Brook ............... 124
A Challenge for Campaign '92: Training Reporters
and Informing the Public - WARREN J. MITOFSKY, Voter Research & Surveys
............... 133
Discussion - MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, University
of Michigan ............... 141
I. CATI, CAPI
Chair: LAURA V. ZAYATZ, U.S. Bureau of the Census
Integrating CATI Centers in a Decentralized
Data Collection Environment - KATHLEEN R. DONOHUE, RICHARD L. CLAYTON,
GEORGE S. WERKING, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 143
Embedded CAPI Training - JOHN S. GARDENIER,
National Center for Health Statistics ............... 148
CAI Technologies for a Canadian Longitudinal
Social Survey: Results of Two Tests - SYLVIE MICHAUD, CHRISTEL LE PETIT,
Statistics Canada ............... 154
Accuracy of 1990 Census Undercount Estimates
for the Postcensal Estimates - MARY H. MULRY, U.S. Bureau of the Census;
BRUCE D. SPENCER, Northwestern University ............... 160
Handling Unmatchable Cases in the Post-Enumeration
Survey - GREGG DIFFENDAL, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 166
Estimation of Matching Error in Census Undercount
Estimates - MARY C. DAVIS, MARY MIJLRY, U.S. Bureau of the Census; PAUL
BIEMER, Research Triangle Institute ............... 170
Effect of Movers on Triple System Estimation
- SALLY W. THURSTON, ALAN M. ZASLAVSKY, Harvard University ...............
176
Using Unobtrusive Observation to Assess Street
Enumeration in the 1990 Census - ELIZABETH MARTIN, U.S. Bureau of the
Census ............... 182
Coverage of (Not in) Emergency Shelters in
S-Night 1990 - LAUREL SCHWEDE, PAUL M. SIEGEL, U.S. Bureau of the Census
............... 188
The 1990 Census Shelter and Street Night Enumeration
- DIANE F. BARRETT, IRWIN ANOLIK, FLORENCE H. ABRAMSON, U.S. Bureau of the
Census ............... 194
Alternative Enumeration Methods and Results
- LESLIE A. BROWNRIGG, MANUEL DE LA PUENTE, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
199
Regression Weighting for the 1987-1988 Nationwide
Food Consumption Survey - MARIE M. LOUGHIN, WAYNE A. FULLER, HAROLD D.
BAKER, Iowa State University ............... 205
A Comparison of Imputation Techniques in a
Physician Survey - SARA L. THRAN, KURT D. GILLIS, American Medical Association
............... 211
Flexible Matching Imputation in the American
Housing Survey - KIMBERLY LONG, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
221
When Are Inferences from Multiple Imputation
Valid? - ROBERT E. FAY, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 227
Interval Estimation in the Presence of Nonresponse
- JAN F. BJ0RNSTAD, FRODE SKJOLD, The University of Trondheim, Norway ...............
233
Preparing Data for Tax Policy and Revenue Analysis
- GEORGE RAMSEY, Franchise Tax Board, State of California ...............
239
Designing A Multipurpose National Household
Probability Sample Based on the 1990 Census - KAROL P. KROTKI, LORRAINE
PORCELLINI, Temple University ............... 244
Sampling from HCFA Lists - RICK APODACA,
DAVID JUDKINS, ANNIE LO, Westat, Inc.; KIM SKELLAN, Health Care Financing
Administration ............... 250
An Assessment of Alternative Designs for Conducting
Physician Surveillance Surveys - WILLIAM D. KALSBEEK, JILL A. DEVER, LINDA
L. SANDERS, University of North Carolina; EDDAS M. BENNETT, Centers for Disease
Control ............... 256
Alternative Sampling Strategies From the New
BLS Business Establishment List - JACQUELINE PRINCIPE, JOHN PAUL SOMMERS,
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 262
Hierarchical and Empirical Bayes Estimation
of All Employee Links - MALAY GHOSH, University of Florida; SO YOUNG SOHN,
Naval Postgraduate School ............... 267
Hierarchical Models for Response to the Business
and Economic Censuses - ELIZABETH A. STASNY, STEVEN N. MACEACHERN, DARRYL
T. YAMASHITA, Ohio State University ............... 273
Composite Estimators for Multiple Domains and
Information Sources Via Hierarchical Bayes Linear Models and Gibbs Sampling
- ALAN M. ZASLAVSKY, Harvard University ............... 279
Preliminary Estimates From the 1990 SOI Corporate
Sample - SUSAN HINKINS, JERI MULROW, Internal Revenue Service ...............
285
Sample Allocation for Stratified Telephone
Sample Designs - CLYDE TUCKER, ROBERT CASADY, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics;
JAMES LEPKOWSKI, University of Michigan ............... 291
Estimating Drug Abuse Episodes From a Nonrandom
Sample of Hospitals - RICHARD E. GRUBERG, CSR, Inc.; ARTHUR L. HUGHES,
National Institute on Drug Abuse ............... 297
Weighting A Panel of Individual Tax Returns
for Cross-Sectional Estimation - ALLEN L. SCHIRM, JOHN L. CZAJKA, Mathematica
Policy Research, Inc. ............... 303
Survey Design Features Correlates of Nonresponse
- STEVEN L. BOTMAN, OWEN T. THORNBERRY, National Center for Health Statistics
............... 309
Multiple Comparison Methods for Data Review
of Census of Agriculture Press Releases - RICHARD GRIFFITHS, U.S. Bureau
of the Census ............... 315
Evaluation of the 1990 Census Sample Tolerance
Check - CAROLYN SWAN, RICHARD GRIFFIN, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
321
Using the Sampling Design in Logistic Regression
Analysis of NCHS Survey Data—Some Applications - VAN L. PARSONS,
National Center for Health Statistics ............... 327
Seasonal Effects in the Reporting of Consumer
Expenditures - ADRIANA R. SILBERSTEIN, STUART SCOTT, U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics ............... 333
Nonresponse Adjustments In a National Health
Survey - TRENA EZZATI, MEENA KHARE, National Center for Health Statistics
............... 339
Noninterview Adjustment Research for the Current
Population Survey - PROMOD K. CHANDHOK, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
345
Modelling For Non-Response In A Longitudinal
Survey - LECILY HUNTER, SYLVIE MICHAUD, VIRGINIA TORRANCE, Statistics
Canada ............... 351
Loss to Follow-Up Assessment: Application of
Grade of Membership Methods to Aged Population Longitudinal Sample Loss to
Follow-Up in the National Long Term Care Survey - LARRY S. CORDER, MAX
A. WOODBURY, KENNETH G. MANTON, Duke University ............... 357
Fitting Categorical Data Models Using Data
From Complex Sample Surveys With Item Nonresponse - LOUIS RIZZO, University
of Iowa ............... 363
How Good Are These Data Anyway? The 1990 Content
Reinterview Survey - KATHRYN F. THOMAS, TAMARA L. DINGBAUM, U.S. Bureau
of the Census ............... 369
Measuring Response Errors in Survey Data
- MICHAEL D. SINCLAIR, U.S. Bureau of the Census; JOSEPH L. GASTWIRTH, George
Washington University ............... 375
Getting Better? Changes or Errors in the Measurement
of Functional Limitations - NANCY A. MATHIOWETZ, TAMRA J. LAIR, U.S. Bureau
of the Census ............... 381
Reinterview Program for the 1991 National Household
Education Survey - J. MICHAEL BRICK, Westat, Inc.; JERRY WEST,
National Center for Education Statistics ............... 387
An Experiment in Monetary Incentives -
M. BERLIN, L. MOHADJER, J. WAKSBERG, Westat, Inc.; A. KOLSTAD, National Center
for Education Statistics; I. KIRSCH, D. ROCK, K. YAMAMOTO, Educational Testing
Service ............... 393
Discussion - PATRICK J. CANTWELL, U.S.
Bureau of the Census ............... 399
Development of the National Home and Hospice
Care Survey - BARBARA J. HAUPT, National Center for Health Statistics
............... 402
Some Improvements On an Algorithm for Controlled
Selection - TING-KWONG LIN, National University of Singapore ...............
407
Plans for the 1993-94 National Health Interview
Survey on Disability - GLORIA SIMPSON, DAVID KEER, MARCIE CYNAMON, National
Center for Health Statistics ............... 411
Statistical Methods Research at Statistics
Canada - DAVID A. BINDER, Statistics Canada ............... 416
Independent Measurement of Performance to USPS
Customers - SIDNEY H. SCHWARTZ, U.S. Postal Service ............... 422
The Schools and Staffing Survey: Research Issues
- DANIEL KASPRZYK, National Center for Education Statistics ...............
428
Questionnaire Research in the Schools and Staffing
Survey: A Cognitive Approach - CLEO R. JENKINS, U.S. Bureau of the Census
............... 434
Balanced Half-Sample Replication With Aggregation
Units - STEVEN KAUFMAN, National Center for Education Statistics ...............
440
Mail Versus Telephone Response in the 1991
Schools and Staffing Surveys - RANDALL J. PARMER, PAO-SHENG SHEN, ANDRE
I. TAN, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 446
Characteristics of Nonrespondents in the Schools
and Staffing Surveys' School Sample - PAO-SHENG SHEN, RANDALL J.
PARMER, ANDRE I. TAN, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 452
The Schools and Staffing Survey: How Reinterview
Measures Data Quality - JOHN M. BUSHERY, DANIEL ROYCE, U.S. Bureau of
the Census; DANIEL KASPRZYK, National Center for Education Statistics ...............
458
An Overview of the National Household Survey
on Drug Abuse and Related Methodological Research - JOSEPH GFROERER, National
Institute on Drug Abuse ............... 464
A Method for Identifying Cognitive Properties
of Survey Items - BARBARA H. FORSYTH, MICHAEL L. HUBBARD, Research Triangle
Institute ............... 470
A Follow-Up Study of Nonrespondents to the
1990 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse - RACHEL A. CASPAR, Research
Triangle Institute ............... 476
Conditional Properties of Post-Stratified Estimators
Under Normal Theory - ROBERT J. CASADY, RICHARD VALLIANT, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 482
Alternative Estimators for the Current Population
Survey - IBRAHIM S. YANSANEH, WAYNE A. FULLER, Iowa State University ...............
488
Representative Bounded-Leverage Regression
Estimation for Finite Populations - JOHAN C. AKKERBOOM, NICO J. NIEUWENBROEK,
Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics ............... 494
Weighted Segment Research for Coverage Evaluation
of the Census of Agriculture - PAUL J. LEWIS, GLENN S. WOLFGANG,
U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 500
The 1990 Housing Unit Coverage Study -
DANNY R. CHILDERS, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 506
Characteristics of Census Errors - DEBORAH
H. GRIFFIN, CHRISTOPHER L. MORIARITY, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
512
Measuring the Quality of the Business Register:
Methodology and Results - PETER LORENZ, NORMAND LANIEL, Statistics Canada
............... 518
Coverage Improvement and Measurement—Discussion
- CYNTHIA Z.F. CLARK, U.S. Department of Agriculture/NASS ...............
524
Basic Cluster Sample Design - C.H. PROCTOR,
North Carolina State University ............... 526
Study of a New PPZ Estimator of the Population
Total - WILLIAM D. WARDE, ABBES BELGACEM, Oklahoma State University ...............
533
Sampling Physician Practices for a National
Vasectomy Survey - PAUL M. GARGIULLO, LISA M. KOONIN, Centers for Disease
Control; SHELBY MARSTON-AINLEY, LIBBY ANTARSH, Association for Voluntary Surgical
Contraception ............... 539
Discussion - RICHARD BOLSTEIN, George Mason
University ............... 545
Longitudinal Weighting Issues and Associated
Research for the SIPP - RITA J. PETRONI, RAJENDRA P. SINGH, U.S.
Bureau of the Census; DANIEL KASPRZYK, National Center for Educational Statistics
............... 548
Investigating Time in Sample Effect for the
Survey of Income and Program Participation - MARYANN K. McCORMICK, DERRICK
M. BUTLER, RAJENDRA P. SINGH, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 554
Estimating Duration of Food Stamp Spells from
the SIPP - DAVID P. MILLER, JAMES LEPKOWSKI, University of Michigan; GRAHAM
KALTON, Westat, Inc. ............... 560
Panel Conditioning Effects in the Survey of
Income and Program Participation - STEVEN G. PENNELL, JAMES M. LEPKOWSKI,
University of Michigan ............... 566
Effects of Measurement Error on Occupational
Event History Analysis - DANIEL H. HILL, University of Toledo ...............
572
Discussion - J. MICHAEL BRICK, Westat,
Inc. ............... 578
Evaluation of Estimation Options for the Monthly
Farm Labor Survey - CHERYL L. TURNER, U.S. Department of Agriculture/OASS
............... 580
Covariance Estimators for the Current Population
Survey - ABDOULAYE ADAM, WAYNE A. FULLER, Iowa State University ...............
586
Use of a Diary and Replicated Sampling to Estimate
Faculty Workload - HOWARD B. CHRISTENSEN, BRUCE A. CHADWICK, DAVID B.
MAGLEBY, Brigham Young University ............... 592
Ratio vs Regression Estimators in a Large Scale
Survey of S&L's - CHARLES D. COWAN, Resolution Trust Corporation ...............
596
An Operational Test of Fax for Data Collection
- RICHARD J. ROSEN, RICHARD L. CLAYTON, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
............... 602
Asking About Drugs and Drug Dependency: Reports
of Drug Use and the Mode of Questionnaire Administration - DAVID W. KEER,
National Center for Health Statistics; BENJAMIN ROWE, University of Michigan;
STEWART C. RICE JR., DEBORAH BERCINI TRUNZO, National Center for Health Statistics
............... 608
Cultural Factors Affecting Within Household
Coverage and Proxy Reporting in Hispanic (Salvadoran) Households - RUTH
B. McKAY, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 614
Discussion - MARCIE L. CYNAMON, National
Center for Health Statistics ............... 619
Non-Parametric Regression for Estimating Totals
in Finite Populations - ALAN H. DORFMAN, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
............... 622
Variance Estimation for Estimates of Employment
Change in the Current Employment Statistics Survey - STEVE WOODRUFF, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 626
Post-Stratifying With Sample Data Only: Can
Using the Obvious Model Help? - PHILLIP S. KOTT, U.S. Department of Agriculture/NASS
............... 632
When is Model-Based Sampling Appropriate for
EIA Surveys? - NANCY J. KIRKENDALL, Energy Information Administration
............... 637
Measures of Central Tendency for Censored Wage
Data - SANDRA WEST, DIEM-TRAN KRATZKE, SHAlL BUTANI, U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics ............... 643
The Revised CPS Questionnaire: Differences
Between the Current and the Proposed Questionnaires - JENNIFER M. ROTHGEB,
U.S. Bureau of the Census; SHARON R. COI-IANY, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
............... 649
The Effect of Questionnaire Redesign on Conceptual
Problems in the Current Population Survey - ELIZABETH MARTIN, U.S. Bureau
of the Census; ANNE POLIVKA, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ...............
655
Evaluating Interviewer Style for Collecting
Industry and Occupation Information - DAVID CANTOR, Westat, Inc.; JAMES
L. ESPOSITO, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 661
Youth Unemployment Measured by the CPS
- JUDITH M. TANUR, JUNG-KYU LEE, State University of New York at Stoney Brook
............... 667
Plans to Assess the Effects of Methodological
Changes to the CPS on Labor Force Estimates - CHESTER BOWIE, LARRY CAHOON,
ELIZABETH MARTIN, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 673
Linear Programming Methodology Used for Disclosure
Avoidance Purposes at the Census Bureau - LAURA VOSHELL ZAYATZ, U.S. Bureau
of the Census ............... 679
A Data Structure and Integer Programming Technique
to Facilitate Cell Suppression Strategies - COLLEEN M. SULLIVAN, ERROL
G. ROWE, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 685
Contextual Variables Via Geographic Sorting:
A Moving Averages Approach - ALAN SAALFELD, LAURA VOSHELL ZAYATZ, ERIK
HOEL, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 691
An Analysis of the Effect of Group Awards on
the Attitudes of Decennial Census Operation Coders - IRWIN ANOLIK, MICHAEL
L. MERSCH, PHILIP M. GBUR, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 697
Apportionment Methods for the House of Representatives
and the Court Challenges - LAWRENCE R. ERNST, U.S. Bureau of the Census
............... 703
Empirical Bayes Confidence Interval for the
Finite Population Mean of a Small Area - B. NANDRAM, Worcester Polytechnic
Institute ............... 709
Hierarchical Bayes Estimation of Variance Components
for the U.S. Consumer Price Index - ROBERT M. BASKIN, U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics ............... 716
Evaluating the Addition of Weather Data to
Survey Data to Forecast Soybean Yields - M. DENICE McCORMICK, THOMAS R
BIRKETT, U.S. Department of Agriculture/NASS ............... 720
Weighting the 1990 Census Sample - ERIC
SCHINDLER, RICHARD GRIFFIN, CAROLYN SWAN, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
726
Evaluation of Hospital Service Areas as PSUs
For the National Health Interview Survey - LLOYD W. HICKS, DONALD H. KEATHLEY,
THOMAS F. MOORE, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 732
Estimating Variance Components for a Complex
Survey - LYNN WEIDMAN, TODD WILLIAMS, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
735
Estimating Variances for the U.S. Consumer
Price Index for 1987-1991 - SYLVIA G. LEAVER, DAVID C. SWANSON, U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics ............... 740
Comparison of The Random Group Variance and
The Stratified Variance Estimators - STEPHEN M. MILLER, KENNETH ROBERTSON,
SHAlL BUTANI, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 746
Stratification of Primary Sampling Units for
the Current Population Survey Using Computer Intensive Methods - PAUL
W. LUDINGTON, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 752
Variance Estimation for Samples with Random
Imputation - MARGOT TOLLEFSON, WAYNE A. FULLER, Iowa State University
............... 758
Two Step Generalized Least Squares Estimation
in the 1991 Canadian Census - MICHAEL D. BANKIER, STEPHEN RATHWELL, MARK
MAJKOWSKI, Statistics Canada ............... 764
Cognitive Assessment of Survey Instruments
and Procedures for Rare Populations: IV Drug Users and the National Household
Seroprevalence Survey - JOHNNY BLAIR, University of Maryland; DIANE BINSON,
University of California at San Francisco; PATRICIA MURPHY, Hines Veterans
Administration Hospital ............... 770
Mail-Back Response Rates for Simplified Decennial
Census Questionnaire Designs - DON A DILLMAN, MICHAEL D. SINCLAIR, JON
R. CLARK, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 776
Redesigning the Census Long Form: Results from
the 1990 Alternative Questionnaire Experiment - THERESA J. DEMAIO,
NANCY A; BATES, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 784
Sample Design and Questionnaire Design Research
at the National Center for Health Statistics - MONROE G. SIRKEN, National
Center for Health Statistics ............... 790
Question Development Process for the IRS Test
Call System - JONATHAN DANIELS, MARY BATCHER, Internal Revenue Service
............... 795
Response Rates from A Survey of Hospices and
Home Health Agencies - ESTHER HING, National Center for Health Statistics
............... 800
Inter-Individual Calibration of Frequency Estimates
- ALBERT F. SMITH, DANNY R. HAGER, ALISON J. PALPHREYMAN, State University
of New York at Binghamton; JARED B. JOBE, National Center for Health Statistics
............... 806
A Cognitive Approach to Mortality Statistics
- ALBERT F. SMITH, State University of New York at Binghamton; DAVID J.
MINGAY, National Opinion Research Center; JARED B. JOBE, JAMES A. WEED,
National Center for Health Statistics; GENEVA CLARK, National Opinion Research
Center ............... 812
Cognitive Modelling of the Survey Interview
- JOAN E. SANDER, FREDERICK G. CONRAD, PAUL A. MULLIN, DOUGLAS J. HERRMANN,
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 818
The Use of Novel Pretesting Methods in the
Development of Survey Questionnaires - GORDON B. WILLIS, DEBORAH TRUNZO,
BARBARA J. STUSSMAN, National Center for Health Statistics ...............
824
Comparative Analysis of Record Linkage Decision
Rules - WILLIAM E. WINKLER, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
829
Identifying Discriminatory Models in Record-Linkage
- YVES THIBAUDEAU, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 835
The Set Theory Matching System - BRADLEY
E. SLAVEN, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 841
Using Surnames to Oversample Hispanics From
a List Frame - DAVID JUDKINS, JAMES MASSEY, VALERIJA SMITH, Westat, Inc.
............... 847
Estimation of Record Linkage Models Using Dependent
Data - JOHN B. ARMSTRONG, JACQUELINE E. MAYDA, Statistics Canada ...............
853
Regression Analysis of a Complex Death Rate
- JAI WON CHOI, National Center for Health Statistics; WON J. PARK,
Wright State University ............... 859
Estimation of S.E.'s For Means and Proportions
From the NMIHS - WAYNE E. JOHNSON, National Center for Health Statistics
............... 865
Adaptation of a Chi-Square Test to Complex
NHDS Samples - IRIS M. SHIMIZU, JAI CHOI, National Center for Health Statistics
............... 870
More Model Sampling and Analyses Applied to
Electric Power Data - JAMES R. KNAUB, JR., U.S. Department of Energy ...............
876
Alternatives to Costly Mainframe Logistic Regression
Adjusting for Complex Survey Design - BARBARA LEPIDUS CARLSON, STEVEN
B. COHEN, ALAN C. MONHEIT, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research ...............
882
An Application of Small Area Estimation Techniques
to Derive State Estimates of Insurance Coverage From the 1987 NMES - JILL
J. BRADEN, STEVEN B. COHEN, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
............... 888
Reporting Use of Prescription Drugs for Stigmatizing
Conditions: An Evaluation of Data Accuracy - MARC L. BERK, Project HOPE;
W. SHERMAN EDWARDS, Westat, Inc. ............... 894
Alternative Designs for Conducting the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Survey of Access to Health Care - CLAUDIA L. SCHUR,
Project HOPE; DIANNE C. BARKER, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; MARC L.
BERK, Project HOPE; JOEL CANTOR, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ...............
900