1.The American Travel Survey: New Directions in Travel Survey Methodology
Organizer: Susan J. Lapham, U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Chair: Philip N. Fulton, U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Quality Assessment and Control Studies in the
American Travel Survey - Lisa Clement, James Hartman, Carol Mylet, and
Dennis Schwanz ............... 1
Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Reduce
Respondent Burden in Longitudinal Surveys - Sylvie Michaud, David Dolson,
D. Adams, and M. Renaud ............... 11
Challenges in Developing the National Longitudinal
Survey of Children - Marie Brodeur, Gilles Montigny, and Hélène
Bérard ............... 21
Improving Sample Representativity Through the
Use of a Rejective Method - Jean-Louis Tambay and Chris Mohl ...............
29
Discussion - Howard Hogan ...............
39
Application of Generalized Iterative Bayesian
Simulation Methods to Estimation and Inference for Coarsened Household Income
and Asset Data - Steven G. Heeringa ............... 42
Using Mixed-Effects Modeling to Aid in the Sample
Design Process - Donald Malec, David Judkins, Huseyin A. Goksel, Keith
Hoffman, Iris Shimizu, and Michael Monsour ............... 52
Discussion - Roderick J. A. Little
............... 60
NCVS: New Questionnaire and Procedures Development
and Phase-In Methodology - David L. Hubble ............... 63
The National Crime Victimization Survey Redesign:
Measuring the Impact of New Methods - Carol Persely ...............
73
The National Crime Victimization Survey Redesign:
New Understandings of Victimization Dynamics and Measurement - Bruce
M. Taylor and Michael R. Rand ............... 81
1.TQM Applications in Survey Research
Chair: David Morganstein, Westat, Inc.
Quality Approach to Agriculture Census Taking
- Elizabeth Ann Vacca and Ruth E. Detlefsen ............... 87
1992 Census of Agriculture Quality Assurance
Program - Anthony C. Williams and Tommy W. Gaulden ...............
93
Survey Data: Use of Scatter Plots for Displaying
Scale and Consistency Factors - David C. Trindade ...............
99
How Exploratory Data Analysis is Improving the
Way We Collect Business Statistics - Howard Hogan ...............
102
Editing Discrete Data - William E. Winkler
............... 108
Masking Microdata Files - Jay J. Kim and
William E. Winkler ............... 114
Limitations of Balanced Half Sampling When Strata
are Grouped - Richard Valliant ............... 120
Estimation of Variance Components for the U.S.
Consumer Price Index - Robert M. Baskin and William H. Johnson ...............
126
Taylor Linearization for Single Phase and Two
Phase Samples: A Cookbook Approach - David A. Binder ...............
132
Variance Estimation for the 1992 Puerto Rico
Census of Agriculture - Richard Griffiths and Inez Chen ...............
138
Improving the Coverage of Private Elementary-Secondary
Schools - Betty J. Jackson and Richard L. Frazier ...............
143
Improved GLS Estimation in NCES Surveys -
Steven Kaufman, Bonnie Li, and Fritz Scheuren ............... 149
Properties of the Schools and Staffing Survey's
Bootstrap Variance Estimator - Steven Kaufman ............... 155
Optimal Periodicity of a Survey: Alternatives
Under Cost and Policy Constraints - Wray Smith, Dhiren Ghosh, and Michael
Chang ............... 161
Discussion - Charles H. Alexander ...............
167
Methodological Challenges and Innovations of
the 1994 National Employer Health Insurance Suvey (NEHIS) - Karen Allen
and Gail S. Poe ............... 170
Unit Eligibility and Response Rates in the 1994
NEHIS - David A. Marker and Bruce Allen ............... 175
Evaluation of Item Response for Key Variables
in the 1994 National Employer Health Insurance Survey (NEHIS) - Esther
Hing and Abigail J. Moss ............... 181
The Effect of Respondent Level and Function on
Item Nonreponse in the 1994 NEHIS - W. Sherman Edwards ...............
187
Weighting and Estimation Procedures for the 1994
NEHIS - Leslie Wallace, Edward C. Bryant, David W. Chapman, David A.
Marker, and Christopher L. Moriarily ............... 192
Disclosure Avoidance Techniques for the 1994
NEHIS Data Products - David W. Chapman and Christopher Moriarity ...............
198
Cost-Effectiveness and Advance Mailings in a
Telephone Follow-Up Survey - William D. Kalsbeek and Scott Joens ...............
204
Monitoring Screening Procedures for the Health
Interview Survey - Christine Milliken ............... 210
The Effect of Respondent Involvement in Sweepstakes
on Response Rate in Mail Surveys - Kyudong Kim, Chulho Lee, and Yun-Oh
Whang ............... 216
When They Don't Remember—A Multi-Method
Approach to Analyzing Taxpayer Usage of Proposed Mailing Procedures - Karen
0 'Conor, Deborah Stone, David Cantor, Kerry Levin, Dwayne Norris, and Fonda
Sackett ............... 221
Overview of Redesign Methodology for the Survey
of Income and Program Participation - Peter H. Siegel and Stephen P.
Mack ............... 227
Continuing Research on Use of Administrative
Data in SIPP Longitudinal Estimation - Suzanne M. Dorinski ...............
233
Regression Adjustment for Nonresponse - Anthony
B. An and Wayne A. Fuller ............... 239
Research on Characteristics of Survey of Income
and Program Participation Nonrespondents Using IRS Data - Mark R. Hendrick,
Karen E. King, and Julia L. Bienias ............... 245
Projection of Results on the NAEP Scale, Using
Data From the North Carolina End-of-Grade Testing Program - David Thissen,
Kathleen Billeaud, Lori Davis, Eleanor Sanford, and Valerie S. L. Williams ...............
251
Synthesizing Results From the Trial State Assessment
- Stephen W. Raudenbush, Randall P. Fotiu, Yuk Fai Cheong, and Zora M. Ziazi
............... 257
Issues in Complex Sampling Involving Latent Variables
- Mark Wilson and Raymond Adams ............... 263
A Comparison of Methods for Imputing Missing
Medical Expenditure Data in the National Medical Expenditure Survey - Jill
J. Braden and John P. Sommers ............... 269
Imputation of Balance Sheets for the 1992 SOI
Corporate Program - Bertrand Uberall ............... 275
An Evaluation of Alternative Imputation Methods
- Jill M. Montaquila and Chester H. Ponikowski ............... 281
Additional Details on Imputing Numeric and Qualitative
Variables Simultaneously - Michael Bankier, Manchi Luc, Christian Nadeau,
and Pat Newcombe ............... 287
Estimating Literacy Proficiencies With and Without
Cognitive Data - Kentaro Yamamoto and Irwin Kirsch ...............
293
Item-Specific Weights in Multipurpose Surveys
- Hee-Choon Shin ............... 299
Questionnaire Development, Results and Other
Issues From the Commerce Department-Wide Customer Satisfaction Survey -
Tracy R. Wellens, Frank Vitrano, and Elizabeth A. Martin ...............
303
Frame Development and Quality Issues for the
Commerce Department-Wide Customer Satisfaction Survey - Kathy Ott and
Frank Vitrano ............... 309
Results From a Customer Service Satisfaction
Mail Survey Using Dillman's "Total Design Method" to Achieve High Response
Rates - Leonard V. Covello ............... 315
On the Performance of Jackknife Variance Estimation
for Systematic Samples with Small Numbers of Primary Sampling Units - John
Burke and Keith Rust ............... 321
Reevaluating Generalized Variance Model Parameters
for the National Crime Victimization Survey - Thomas R. Krenzke ...............
327
Variance Estimates Comparison by Statistical
Software - Stanley S. Weng, Fan Zhang, and Michael P. Cohen ...............
333
Evaluating Modeling Error of Imputed IRS Income
Proportions Using Balanced Bootstraps on Simulated Variables - Chih-Chin
Ho and William Wong ............... 339
Asymptotic Distribution of Estimators From Unequal
Probablility Sampling - Mohammad A. Chaudhary and Pranab K. Sen ...............
345
A Comparison of Estimators for the Mean of a
Finite Population, Based on a Systematic Sample - Larry Huff, Diem-Tran
Kratzke, Gordon Mikkelson, and Sandra West ............... 350
Markov Chain Designs for One-Per-Stratum Spatial
Sampling - F. Jay Breidt ............... 356
Estimation of Day-to-Day Correlations for Dietary
Components - Alicia L. Carriquiry and Wayne A. Fuller ...............
362
Use of Distance Function to Optimize Sample Allocation
in Multivariate Surveys: A New Perspective - M. A. Rahim ...............
365
Effect of Two-Stage Sampling on the R-Square
Statistic - Govinda J. Weerakkody and Sumalee Givaruangsawat ...............
370
Variance Estimation for Finite Populations with
Imputed Data - Philip Steel and Robert E. Fay ............... 374
A Paradox of Multiple Imputation - Phillip
S. Kott ............... 380
Variance Estimation in the Presence of Imputed
Data for the Generalized Estimation System - Hyunshik Lee, Eric Rancourt,
and Carl-Erik Sdrndal ............... 384
Weighting Panel Data for Longitudinal Analysis
- John L. Czajka and Larry M. Radbill ............... 390
Longitudinal Survey Nonresponse Adjustment by
Weight Calibration for Estimation of Gross Flows - A. C. Singh, S. Wu,
and R. Boyer ............... 396
Tracking, Weighting, and Sample Selection Modeling
to Correct for Attrition - Kimberly A. McGuigan, Phyllis L. Ellickson,
Ronald D. Hays, and Robert M. Bell ............... 402
Creation of Panel Data From Cross-Sectional Surveys
- Stephanie Hughes and Susan Hinkins ............... 408
Estimation of Autocorrelations for Current Population
Survey Labor Force Characteristics - Tamara Sue Zimmerman and Edwin Robison
............... 414
Composite Estimation by Modified Regression for
Repeated Surveys - A. C. Singh and P. Merkouris ............... 420
Measuring Employee Satisfaction: Corporate Surveys
as Practice - Judith M. Tanur and Brigitte Jordan ...............
426
Framing and Meaning in Customer Attitude Surveys
- James H. Drew and Andrew L. Betz III ............... 432
Estimation of Drug Use Incidence Using NHSDA
- Robert Johnson, Dean Gerstein, and Joseph Gfroerer ...............
437
Research for the 1993 NSF Surveys of Scientists
and Engineers - Linda Hardy, Geraldine Mooney, and Donna Eisenhower ...............
443
Interviewer Variance in Two Telephone Surveys
- J. Michael Brick, Richard McGuinness, Susan J. Lapham, Margaret Cahalan,
Dedrick Owens, and Lucinda Gray ............... 447
An Identification Study of Nonrespondents to
the 1993 Survey of Doctorate Recipients - Ramal Moonesinghe, Susan Mitchell,
and Daniel Pasquini ............... 453
Nonresponse Issues of the National Survey of
College Graduates - Antoinette Tremblay and Thomas F. Moore III ...............
459
Discussion - Daniel Kasprzyk ...............
465
The Population Based Establishment Surveys
- Monroe Sirken, Iris Shimizu, and David Judkins ............... 470
Sampling and Reporting Unit Issues in Employer-Based
CATI Health Care Surveys - Frank J. Potter, Kerrie E. Boyle, and Melodie
W. Rush ............... 474
Nonresponse Adjustment in Certainty Strata for
an Establishment Survey - Kirk Mueller, George Stamas, and Shail Butani
............... 479
Survey Methodology and Performance Characteristics
for the National Surveys of Worksites and Employee Assistance Programs -
K. E. Boyle, F. J. Potter, M. W. Rush, and E. S. Stutts ...............
485
Evaluation of Model-Assisted Procedures for Stratifying
Skewed Populations Using Auxiliary Data - Elizabeth M. Sweet and Richard
S. Sigman ............... 491
Distribution of Poverty in Census Block Groups
(BGs) and Implications for Sample Design - Joseph Waksberg ...............
497
Oversampling Minority School Children - Ralph
DiGaetano, David Judkins, and Joseph Waksberg ............... 503
Targeting Enumeration Enhancement Methodologies:
Indications of Effectiveness - PhilipM. Gbur ............... 509
Examination of Census Omission and Erroneous
Enumeration Based on 1990 Ethnographic Studies of Census Coverage - Yukiko
Ellis ............... 515
A Comparison of Recording Errors Between CATI
and Paper-and-Pencil Data Collection Modes - James M. Lepkowski, Sally
A. Sadosky, Mick P. Couper, Stephanie Chardoul, Lisa Cam, and Lesli Jo Scott
............... 521
Using E-Mail/World Wide Web for Establishment
Survey Data Collection - Richard L. Clayton and George S. Werking ...............
527
The First Year of Computer-Assisted Interviewing
for the Canadian Labour Force Survey - Michelle Simard, Johane Dufour,
and Frank Mayda ............... 533
Report on Spoken Language Recognition Year 2000
Census Questionnaire - Lawrence A. Malakhoff Martin V. Appel, and Ronald
Cole ............... 539
Experiences with Fax Data Reporting and Questionnaire
Distribution - Martin V. Appel, Thomas F. Petkunas, and Chad E. Russell
............... 544
Indirect Estimation of Rates and Proportions
for Small Areas with Continuous Measurement - Nanak Chand and Charles
H. Alexander ............... 549
Fund Allocation and Small Area Estimation in
the WIC Program - Allen L. Schirm and Cindy Long ...............
555
The Mean-Squared Error of a Rank-Based Predictor
of the Mean of a Small Area - M. Mushfiqur Rashid and Balgobin Nandram
............... 561
Examining the Revisions in Monthly Trade Surveys
Under a Rotating Panel Design - Patrick J. Cantwell, Carol V. Caldwell,
Howard Hogan, and Carl A. Konschnik ............... 567
Post-Stratification and Efficient Estimation
in U.S. Agricultural Labor Surveys - Raj S. Chhikara, Charles R. Perry,
Lih-Yuan Deng, William C. Iwig, Floyd M. Spears, and Susan Cowles ...............
573
Evaluation of Confidence Interval Methodology
for the Occupational Compensation Survey Program - Christina L. Harpenau,
Joan L. Coleman, and Mark D. Lincoln ............... 578
Constructing a Major Survey: Operational Plans
and Issues for Continuous Measurement - Susan Love, Donald Dalzell, and
Charles Alexander ............... 584
Collecting Census Long Form Data Over the Telephone:
Operational Results of the 1995 Continuous Measurement CATI Test - Kenneth
B. Dawson, Janice A. Sebold, Susan P. Love, and Lynn Weidman ...............
590
Estimation Issues for the Continuous Measurement
Survey - Lynn Weidman, Charles Alexander, Gregg Diffendal, and Susan
Love ............... 596
Simulation of Continuous Measurement for Small
Area Estimation - Gregg Diffendal and Lynn Weidman ...............
602
A Model for Imputing Nonsample Households with
Sampled Nonresponse Follow-Up - Elaine Zanutto and Alan M. Zaslavsky
............... 608
A Study of Donor Pools and Imputation Methods
for Missing Employment Data - Kenneth W. Robertson, Albert Tou, and Larry
Huff ............... 614
Sample Design for the 1995 Survey of Community
Health Centers - Christopher L. Moriarity and David W. Chapman ...............
620
Adjustment for Nonresponse in a Physician Survey
- Sara L. Thran and Gregory D. Wozniak ............... 626
Patterns and Effects of Nonresponse and Late
Response on a Survey of 1983-84 Medical School Graduates - Donna Eisenhower
and John Hall ............... 632
Toward the Development of an Optimal Stratification
Paradigm for the Survey of Consumer Finances - Martin Frankel and Arthur
Kennickell ............... 638
The Women's Care Study: The Results of an Experiment
in New Sampling Designs for Random Digit Dialing Surveys - Lou Rizzo,
Ralph DiGaetano, Diane Cadell, and Dale W. Kulp ............... 644
Statistics of Income Partnership Studies: Evaluation
of the Expanded Sampling Plan - Paul B. McMahon ............... 650
The Redesign of the Canadian Annual Wholesale
and Retail Trade Survey - Zdenek Patak, Keith Davis, and Serge Grenier
............... 656
Evaluation of Classification and Regression Tree
Generated Model Groups for the 1992 Census of Agriculture - Stephen Ash,
Melinda Kraus, and Anne Peterson ............... 662
The Design of the National Immunization Survey
- Trena M. Ezzati-Rice, Elizabeth R. Zell, Michael P. Battaglia,
Pamela L. Y .H. Ching, and Robert A. Wright ............... 668
Estimating the Response Rate in a Telephone Survey
with Screening - James T. Massey ............... 673
Adjusting for Noncoverage of Nontelephone Households
in the National Immunization Survey - Michael P. Battaglia, Donald J.
Malec, Bruce D. Spencer, David C. Hoaglin, and Joseph Sedransk ...............
678
Adjusting for Respondent Bias on Vaccination
Status in a Telephone Survey - Elizabeth R. Zell, Trena M. Ezzati-Rice,
David C. Hoaglin, and James T. Massey ............... 684
Sample Sizes for Survey Data Analyzed with Hierarchical
Linear Models - Michael P. Cohen ............... 690
Respondent Selection Bias in the Hagen-Collier
Approach - Karol P. Krótki and Lorraine Porcellini ...............
694
Fixed Sample Size PPS Approximations with a Permanent
Random Number - Pedro J. Saavedra ............... 697
A New Look at 'Portability' for Survey Model
Sampling and Imputation - James R. Knaub, Jr. ............... 701
Maximizing and Minimizing Overlap of Ultimate
Sampling Units - Lawrence R. Ernst ............... 706
Efficiency of Split Exam Designs - Linda
M. Zeger and Neal Thomas ............... 712
1995 Census Test: Integrated Coverage Measurement
Sample Design - Alfredo Navarro and Henry F. Woltman ...............
718
Properties of Variance Estimators for the 1995
Census Test - Machell Kindred Town and Robert E. Fay ...............
724
Impacts of Sampling for Nonresponse Follow-up
and Integrated Coverage Measurement on Census Methodology for a One Number Census
- Rita J. Petroni, Michael Ikeda, and Rajendra P. Singh ...............
730
Optimizing Sample Allocation of the 2000 Non-Response
Follow-up - Yves Thibaudeau and Alfredo Navarro ............... 736
Methodology for the Evaluation of Sampling and
Estimation in the Census - Mary H. Mulry and Alfredo Navarro ...............
742
Discussion - Alan M. Zaslavsky ...............
748
Tabulation of Multiple Industry Companies in
the Annual Capital Expenditures Survey - Miriam D. Rosenthal and Mark
S. Sands ............... 751
Results of Using Chromy's Algorithm for the Annual
Survey of Manufactures - Douglas Bond, Robert Struble, and Lynn Imel
............... 757
Multivariate Stratification and Sample Allocation
Satisfying Multiple Constraints for Surveys of Post-Office Mail Volumes
- Robert Shaw, Richard Sigman, and Laura Zayatz ............... 763
Sample Allocation for the Status of the Armed
Forces Surveys - R. E. Mason, S. C. Wheeless, B. J. George, J. A. Dever,
R. A. Riemer, and T. W. Elig ............... 769
Estimating Measurement Error Bias and Variance
in Two-Phase Samples - Paul P. Biemer and Dale Atkinson ...............
775
Research into the Validation of Social Security
Numbers Collected by the United States Bureau of the Census - James B.
Treat and Theresa F. Leslie ............... 781
Reinterview in an Automated Environment -
Glenn Weller and Irwin Schreiner ............... 787
Studying the Causes of Employment Count Differences
Reported in Two BLS Programs - George S. Werking, Richard L. Clayton,
and Richard J. Rosen ............... 793
Bias in Telephone Surveys of African Americans:
The Impact of Perceived Race of Interviewer on Responses - Monica L.
Wolford, Ronald E. Brown, Anne Marsden, James S. Jackson, and Chase
Harrison ............... 799
Issues in Designing the Medical Evaluation Study
for Disability - Carla E. Maffeo, Graham Kalton, Leyla Mohadjer, Mitchell
P. LaPlante, and Martynas A. Ycas ............... 805
Conditions and Impairments Among the Working-Age
Population with Disabilities - Michele Adler ............... 811
Assessing Quality of CCD Data Using a School-Based
Sample Survey - Sameena Salvucci, Sandeep Bhalla, Michael Chang, and
John Sietsema ............... 817
Documentation of Nonresponse and Consistency
of Data Categorization Across NCES Surveys - Steven Fink, Mehrdad Saba,
Michael Chang, and Samuel Peng ............... 823
Multivariate Modeling of Unit Nonrepsonse for
1990-91 Schools & Staffing Surveys - Sameena Salvucci, Fan Zhang,
David Monaco, Kerry Gruber, and Fritz Scheuren ...............
829
Evaluation of Imputation Methods for State Education
Finance Data - David Monaco, Stanley Weng, and Frank Johnson ...............
835
Discussion - David L. Hubble ...............
840
An Evaluation of the 1995 Census Test Address
List Operation for the Urban Sites - Diane F. Barrett ...............
843
Improving Census Coverage Error Measurement Through
Automated Matching - Claude Julien and Michael Mayda ...............
849
Improvement of Address Lists Through Local Government
Involvement—Quality of Added Addresses - Michael L. Mersch, LaTanya
Steele, and Diane Barrett ............... 855
Results from the Intensive Address Listing Experiment:
The Effects of Different Address Listing Procedures on Housing Coverage and
Mail Response - Maria E. Urrutia-Cortez and James B. Treat ...............
860
Discussion - Gary M. Shapiro ...............
866
Allocation Revisited - Dhiren Ghosh and
Andrew Vogt ............... 869
Use of Auxilliary Information for Two-Phase Sampling
- M. A. Hidiroglou and C. E. Sdrndal ............... 873
Using an Inverse Sampling Algorithm for Tests
of Independence Based on Stratified Samples - Susan Hinkins, H. Lock
Oh, and Fritz Scheuren ............... 879
Independence Tests for Two-Way Tables Under Cluster
Sampling - D. R. Thomas, A. C. Singh, and G. R. Roberts ...............
885
Area Sampling Illustrated: Measuring Trees in
a Wooded Area - C. H. Proctor ............... 891
Adjusting the 1993 Commodity Flow Survey to the
1992 Economic Census - B. Timothy Evans and Patrick J. Cantwell ...............
896
An Application of Regression and Calibration
Estimation to Post-Stratification in a Household Survey - Bodhini Jayasuriya
and Richard Valliant ............... 902
Dealing with Wide Weight Variation in Polls
- Richard A. Griffin ............... 908
A Comparison of Weights Derived from Different
Models - Jiahe Qian ............... 912
Post-Stratification for Proportion Estimation
With Use of a Selection Weight - Yongxiao Wang and David Takeuchi ...............
917
Combining Data to Produce Timely Estimates
- Nancy C. Hassett, Pedro J. Saavedra, and Paula Weir ...............
923
Using Graphical Analyses to Improve all Aspects
of the Survey of Consumer Finances - Gerhard Fries and R. Louise Woodburn
............... 927
Patterns of and Adjustments for Nonresponse in
an NHIS Supplement - Steven L. Botman ............... 933
An Evaluation of the Sampling Algorithms Implemented
in CAPI for the National Medical Expenditure Survey—3 Field Pretest -
Mamatha S. Pancholi and Steven B. Cohen ............... 939
A Comparative Study of Two Telephone Sampling
Designs - Manas Chattopadhyay, Rajesh Srinivasan, Elaine Christiansen,
and Greg Gaertner ............... 945
The Relative Impact of Interviewer Effects and
Sample Design Effects on Survey Precision - Colm O'Muircheartaigh and
Pamela Campanelli ............... 951
Pre-Identification of Nonworking and Business
Telephone Numbers in List-Assisted Random-Digit-Dialing Samples - Michael
P. Battaglia, Amy Starer, Jerry Oberkofler, and Elizabeth R. Zell ...............
957
Segregation and Turnout in Urban America
- Kurt C. Schlichting, Peter S. Tuckel, and Richard Maisel ...............
963
Using Advance Respondent Letters in Random-Digit-Dialing
Telephone Surveys - Donald Camburn, Paul J. Lavrakas, Michael P. Battaglia,
James T. Massey, and Robert A. Wright ............... 969
Calling Local Telephone Company Business Offices
to Determine the Residential Status of a Wide Class of Unresolved Telephone
Numbers in a Random-Digit-Dialing Sample - Gary Shapiro, Michael P. Battaglia,
Donald P. Camburn, James T. Massey, and Linda I. Tompkins ...............
975
The Prodigy Experiment in Using E-Mail for Tracking
Public Opinion - Jan Werner, Richard Maisel, and Katherine Robinson ...............
981
A Study of Civic Life on the Internet
- Bonnie Fisher, Michael Margolis, and David Resnick ...............
986
Internet Signatures Collection: An Approach in
Conducting "Research" - Sandy Tse and Philip Tsang ...............
992
On the Relationship of Mortality Statistics and
Death Certificate Format - Albert F. Smith, David J. Mingay, Jared B.
Jobe, and James A. Weed ............... 999
A Framework for Evaluating "Don't Know"
Responses in Surveys - Paul Beatty and Douglas Herrmann ...............
1005
Public Attitudes Toward Data Sharing by Federal
Agencies - Eleanor Singer and Nora Cate Schaeffer ...............
1011
Evaluation of a Computer-Assisted Self-Interview
(CASI) Component in a CAPI Survey - Mick P. Couper and Ben Rowe ...............
1017
Respondent Preferences Toward Audio-CASI and
How That Affects Data Quality - Susan H. Kinsey, Jutta S. Thornberry,
Chris P. Carson, and Allen P. Duffer ............... 1023
Once Reluctant, Always Reluctant? Effects of
Differential Incentives on Later Survey Participation in a Longitudinal Study
- Jennie E. Lengacher, Colleen M. Sullivan, Mick P. Couper, and Robert M.
Groves ............... 1029
Panel Attrition in a Dual-Frame Local Area Telephone
Survey - Judith A. Schejbal and Paul J. Lavrakas ...............
1035
Results From Telephone Debriefing Interviews:
The Census Bureau's Spanish Forms Availability Test - Peter Wobus and
Manuel de la Puente ............... 1040
Little Things Matter: A Sampler of How Differences
in Questionnaire Format Can Affect Survey Responses - Tom W. Smith ...............
1046
The Effect of Questionnaire Cover Design in Mail
Surveys - Philip Gendall ............... 1052
Seeking "Truth" Through Negativity -
Morton A. David and Patty McGrath ............... 1058
Recruiting Rare and Hard to Reach Populations:
A Sampling Strategy for Surveying NYC Residents Living with HIV/AIDS, Using
Agency Recruiters - Peter Messeri, Angela Aidala, David Abramson, Cheryl
Healton, Dorothy Jones-Jessop, and Deisha Jetter ............... 1064
Cultural and Gender Differences in the Response
Editing of Health Survey Questions - Diane 0 'Rourke, Timothy Johnson,
Richard Warnecke, Seymour Sudman, Noel Chavez, Loretta Lacey, and John Horm
............... 1069
The Role of Respondent Debriefing Questions in
Questionnaire Development - Jennifer Hess and Eleanor Singer ...............
1075
Can Cognitive Information be Collected Through
the Mail? Comparing Cognitive Data Collected in Written versus Verbal Format
- Wendy Davis, Theresa J. DeMaio, and Andrew Zukerberg ...............
1081
Literacy and the Self-Administered Form in Special
Populations: A Primer - Eleanor R. Gerber and Tracy R. Wellens ...............
1087
Telephone Interviews of Adolescents: Problems
and Prospects in a Substance Abuse Prevalence Survey - John Tarnai, Rosie
Pavlov, and Chris Frigon ............... 1093
Classifying Undecided Respondents: A Comparison
Of Different Methods - Janet Hoek and Philip Gendall ...............
1099
A Mixed-Method Approach to Evaluating New Tax
Payment Procedures - Dwayne Norris, Kerry Levin, David Cantor, Deborah
Stone, and Karen O'Conor ............... 1104
The Quality of Proxy Reports on the Current Population
Survey (CPS) - Brian A. Kojetin and Paul Mullin ............... 1110
Practical Considerations in Sample Size Selection
for Behavior Coding Pretests - Andrew L. Zukerberg, Dawn R. Von Thurn,
and Jeffrey C. Moore ............... 1116
A Comparison of Interviewer and Office Coding
of Occupations - Jean Martin, Diane Bushnell, Pamela Campanelli, and
Roger Thomas ............... 1122
Measuring Public Sensibilities in End-Of-Life
Medical Decision Making: A Factorial Vignette Survey - Charles E. Denk,
John M. Benson, John C. Fletcher, and Tina M. Reigel ............... 1128
The Lingering Prime: Testing the Effects of Early
Primes on Subsequent Attitudes - Andrea Chronister ...............
1134
Physicians' Participation in a Disk-by-Mail Survey
- Lorayn Olson and Mindy Schneiderman ............... 1140
The Growth of Academic and Not-For-Profit Survey
Research Organizations - Seymour Sudman, Diane 0'Rourke, and Marya Ryan
............... 1146
The Effects of Advance Letters and Reminder/Thank
You Letters on Reducing Nonresponse in an Establishment Survey: An Experimental
Study - Young I. Chun and Kenneth W. Robertson ............... 1151
A Profile of Telephone Answering Machine Owners
and Screeners - Peter Tuckel and Harry O'Neill ............... 1157
How Do You Measure "Awareness"? Experiences
with the Lead-Based Paint Survey - Susan Ciochetto and Barbara A. Haley
............... 1163
The Determinants of Acquiescence to Preprinted
Information on Establishment Survey Instruments - Joan M. Phillips, Ananda
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