Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section, American Statistical Association (2004)

Invited Papers by Topic

Session 1: Bridging the Gap: Issues and methods for transitioning between the 1977 and 1997 OMB Standards for collecting data on race and ethnicity
Organizer: Jennifer Madans, National Center for Health Statistics
Chair: Nancy Gordon, US Census Bureau

Overview of Race-bridging Models for 2000 and Development of Revised Models for Post-censal Years - Jennifer Parker

Replicating the Race-bridging Models Using the Census Quality Survey - Deborah D. Ingram

Assessing Variability Due to Race Bridging - Nathaniel Schenker

Session 3: Training of Government Statisticians
Organizer: Carol J. Blumberg, Winona State University
Chair: Carol J. Blumberg, Winona State University

The Joint Program in Survey Methodology and its Impact on the Federal Statistical Agency Workforce - Cynthia Z.F. Clark, Gia F. Donnalley, and Roger Tourangeau
Keywords: career development in survey research, on-the-job training, official statistics

Teaching a Course on Government Statistics in a University Statistics Department - Patrick Murphy

The Challenges of Providing International Statistical Training to Government Statisticians - Elizabeth A. Taylor

Session 34: Adaptive Sampling Applications in Homeland Security
Organizer: Fritz J. Scheuren, NORC, University of Chicago
Chair: Fritz J. Scheuren, NORC, University of Chicago

Adaptive Sampling in Network and Spatial Settings - Steven K. Thompson

Session 36: Software Development in Survey Organizations
Organizer: Howard Hogan, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Thomas L. Mesenbourg, Jr., U.S. Census Bureau

Software Process Improvement Efforts in the Economic Directorate - Howard Hogan, Deborah Tasky, David Hiller, and Ron Farrar

The Processing Environment Behind a Statistical Program - Claude Poirier
Keywords: statistical functions, processing tools, modular systems, foundation software

Agile Component-based Software Engineering over the Survey Life Cycle - Michael S. Tilkin

Session 61: Towards the Gold Standard for Social Measurement in the 21st Century
Organizer: Juanita T. Lott, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Michael L. Cohen, Committee on National Statistics

From Survey Data to Multiple Types of Data in Historical and Real Time - Juanita Tamayo Lott, Fritz Scheuren, Jay K. Keller, and David Banks
Keywords: federal requirements, data user expectations, federal statistical system, real-time data

Can You Count Them? What Do The Numbers Say? - Warren, R.C., Miles-Richardson, S. R., and Reynolds, G.
Keywords: health disparities, hazardous waste, public health, health, environment

Toward a Paradigm for Integrating Information: Applications and Principles - Dean H. Judson

Session 95: Designed Missingness Strategies for Epidemiological Studies
Organizer: Louise M. Ryan, Harvard School of Public Health
Chair: Louise M. Ryan, Harvard School of Public Health

Development of Cost-effective Statistical Sampling Strategies and Optimal Design Considerations for Exposure Assessment as Part of the National Children's Study - Warren J. Strauss, Jeff Lehman, and Haluk Ozkaynak

Outcome-dependent Study Design for Clustered Data - Haibo Zhou

Split-questionnaire Designs for National Health Surveys - Neal Thomas, Myron Katzoff, Trivellore E. Raghunathan, and Nathaniel Schenker

Optimal Design for Bivariate Longitudinal Data When Some of the Outcomes Will Be Missing by Design - Cassandra Arroyo

Session 138: Improving the Measurement of Research and Development in the United States
Organizer: Thomas J. Plewes, National Academies
Chair: Andrew White, National Academies

Improving the Measurement of Research and Development in the United States - Fred Gault

International Comparability of Data on Research and Development and on Innovation - Fred Gault

Statistical Quality in the NSF Data Collections - Richard Valliant

Session 140: Resampling Methods in Surveys
Organizer: Jiming Jiang, University of California, Davis
Chair: Jane L. Meza, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Replication Variance Estimation for the Two-phase Regression Estimator - Wayne A. Fuller
Keywords: double sampling, reweighted expansion estimator, multi-phase sampling

Mean Square Error Approximation in Small Area Estimation by Use of Parametric and Nonparametric Bootstrap - Danny Pfeffermann and Hagit Glickman

Inference Based on Nearest Neighbor Imputation and the Bootstrap - Hansheng Wang and Jun Shao

Session 170: Evaluating the Quality of Small Area Data from the American Community Survey: Evidence from Four Test Sites
Organizer: Joseph J. Salvo, NYC Department of City Planning
Chair: Leonard Gaines, New York State Department of Economic Development

From City to Farm: The View of ACS from California - Linda Gage

Seasonal Swings in Population: What Can We Learn from the ACS? - Paul R. Voss, Roger B. Hammer, Paul M. Van Auken, and Daniel L. Veroff

An Evaluation of the American Community Survey: Results from the Oregon Test Site - David A. Swanson and George Hough

How Does the ACS Measure Up in the Bronx, New York, Test Site? - Joseph J. Salvo, Arun P. Lobo, and Timothy Calabrese

Session 172: Disclosure Limitation Methods for Protecting the Confidentiality of Statistical Data
Organizer: Singdhansu Chatterjee, University of Minnesota, Jai W. Choi, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Chair: Jennifer Madans, National Center for Health Statistics

Resolving Confidentiality and Data Quality Issues for Tabular Data - Lawrence H. Cox
Keywords: controlled tabular adjustment, linear programming, covariance

Statistical Disclosure Techniques Based on Multiple Imputation - Trivellore E. Raghunathan, Roderick J. Little, and Fang Liu

Characterizing Multidimensional Contingency Tables with Applications to Confidentiality and Statistical Disclosure Limitation - Stephen E. Fienberg and Aleksandra Slavkovic

Session 204: Successful Statistical Collaborations
Organizer: Glenn D. White, Jr., Ernst & Young LLP
Chair: Glenn D. White, Jr., Ernst & Young LLP

Collaboration at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology - J. Michael Brick and Roger Tourangeau
Keywords: training, statistical education, short courses, federal statistics

The Collaborative Nature of Statistics as a Discipline - Larry D. Haugh

The Still Unfinished Journey from Single to Multiple Imputation - Fritz J. Scheuren

Session 206: Decennial Census Coverage Measurement Program
Organizer: Rajendra P. Singh, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Preston J. Waite, U.S. Census Bureau

Plans for Measuring Coverage of the 2010 U.S. Census - Donna Kostanich, David Whitford, and William R. Bell

Measuring the Quality of Census Counts--The Australian Experience - Paul S. Williams

Under-enumeration--the Census of England and Wales - James J. Brown and Ian Diamond

Session 252: Methodological Issues Surrounding International Comparisons
Organizer: Danny Pfeffermann, Hebrew University and University of Southampton
Chair: Danny Pfeffermann, Hebrew University and University of Southampton

Purchasing Power Parities--Statistics to Describe the World - Frederic A. Vogel

Techniques for Calibrating Response Scales Across Countries and Languages - Tom W. Smith and Kirk M. Wolter

Session 286: Multilevel Modeling with Survey Data
Organizer: Shijie Chen, RTI International, Michael D. Larsen, Iowa State University
Chair: Rachel M. Harter, NORC, University of Chicago

Estimation of A Finite Population Mean - An Empirical Restricted Best Prediction Approach - Jiming Jiang and P. Lahiri
Keywords: asymptotics, mean square prediction error, robustness, small-area estimation, survey weights

Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling of NRI Survey Data - Michael D. Larsen
Keywords: clustering, Gibbs sampling, log normal distribution, multilevel model, stratification, survey sampling, survey weights

Challenges in Bayesian Data Analysis for Survey Data - Andrew Gelman and John B. Carlin

Session 321: Some Lessons Learned and Analytic Results from the Joint Canada/United States Health Survey
Organizer: Jane F. Gentleman, National Center for Health Statistics
Chair: Jane F. Gentleman, National Center for Health Statistics

Legal and Procedural Issues Encountered in Conducting the 2003 JCUSH - Jennifer Madans and Lorna Bailie
Keywords: RDD, Joint Canada/United States survey, JCUSH, National Health Interview Survey, Canadian Community Health Survey

Operational and Methodological Lessons Learned from the 2003 Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health - Catherine Simile and Ed Rama

A Comparative Analysis of Four Disability/Functional Limitation Modules in the 2003 Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health - Barbara M.Altman, Edward Ng, and Jean-Marie Berthelot
Keywords: international comparison, disability, functional limitation, HUI, restriction of activities, joint Canada/United States survey

A Comparative Analysis of Healthcare Service Utilization in the United States and Canada: Findings from the Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health - Claudia Sanmartin, Debra Blackwell, Jane F. Gentleman, Michael Martinez, Nancy Ross, and Jean-Marie Berthelot

Session 362: Practical Issues in Resampling Environmental Data
Organizer: Joel H. Reynolds, U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Chair: Joel H. Reynolds, U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Bootstrapping Dependent Data in Ecology - Mark L. Taper

Practical Issues in Resampling - Tim C. Hesterberg

Essential Modifications of Bootstrap for Some Common Problems - David V. Hinkley

Graphical Diagnostics for the Bootstrap - Angelo J. Canty

Session 391: The Future of Methods and Software for Analyzing Complex Samples
Organizer: Lisa M. LaVange, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Chair: Lisa M. LaVange, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Design-Based Methods for Survey Data: Alternative Uses of Estimating Functions - David Binder, Milorad Kovacevic, and Georgia Roberts
Keywords: design-based variances, linearization methods, analysis of complex survey data, bootstrap methods

Development of Statistical Methods to Analyze Complex Health Surveys for Epidemiologic Studies: Some New Methods and Applications - Barry I. Graubard, Thomas R. Fears, Steven B. Cohen, and Lester R. Curtin

Sample Survey Methods and Software for Non-survey Data Applications - Gary G. Koch and Lisa M. LaVange

Session 418: Risk-Utility Approaches to Statistical Disclosure Limitation
Organizer: Alan F. Karr, National Institute of Statistical Sciences
Chair: Alan F. Karr, National Institute of Statistical Sciences

Inference-based Measures of Utility for Contingency Tables - Ashish Sanil

Disclosure Risk and Data Utility for Remote-access Regression Servers - Jerome Reiter, Ashish Sanil, Alan F. Karr, and Shanti Gomatam

Data Swapping: Disclosure Risk vs. Data Utility - S. Lynne Stokes, George Duncan, and Sallie Keller-McNulty

Risk-utility Considerations in Secure Data Integration - Xiaodong Lin

Session 422: Outliers in Finite Population Sampling
Organizer: Malay Ghosh, University of Florida
Chair: Meena Khare, National Center for Health Statistics

Outlier Robust Imputation of Survey Data - Raymond L. Chambers and Ruilin Ren
Keywords: auxiliary information, finite population, sample survey, outliers, gross errors, missing data, imputation, robust estimation, Winsorization, calibration

Outlier Treatment for Disaggregated Estimates - Louis-Paul Rivest and Mike Hidiroglou
Keywords: effciency, sample survey, stratified random sampling, winsorization

Influence Functions and Robust Small-area Estimation - Malay Ghosh

Contributed Papers by Topic

Session 9: Record Linkage Applications
Organizer: Michael D. Larsen, Iowa State University
Chair: Steven B. Cohen, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Use of Probabilistic Record Linkage for the Canadian Cancer Registry - Jocelyne Marion and Brad Thomas
Keywords: probabilistic record linkage, internal linkage (unduplication), external linkage

Research Use of Restricted Data: The HRS Experience - Michael A. Nolte and Janet J. Keller
Keywords: researcher eligibility, distribution procedures, disclosure limitation, respondent confidentiality

Child Immigrants as Citizens - Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield
Keywords: aliens, naturalization, record linkage, citizens, derivative

Approximate String Comparator Search Strategies for Very Large Administrative Lists - William E. Winkler
Keywords: search mechanisms, approximate string comparison, computer matching

National Record Linkage of UK Hospital records and Death Registrations - Janet J. Keller

Session 21: Designing and Improving Surveys for Health Policy
Organizer:
Chair: Norma Terrin, Tufts-New England Medical Center

A New Design for the Canadian National Seat Belt Survey - Aline Chouinard

The Impact of 2000 Census-based Population Controls on Health Estimates in the National Health Interview Survey - Carrie Lynch and Van Parsons
Keywords: multiple-race, population controls, weights, standard errors

Statistics for Global Health - David J. Fitch, Roberto Molina Cruz, and Patrick D. Baier

The Effects of Correcting for Sample Selection Bias in Internet Panel Surveys Based on Random Digit Dialing Sampling When Estimating the Demand for Preventative Health Care - Trudy A. Cameron, J. R. DeShazo, J. Michael Dennis, and Rick J. Lee

Soap Operas, Primetime Dramas, and Public Health: Analysis of National Consumer Panel Survey Data for Health Communication Planning - William E. Pollard and Vicki Beck

Measuring Self-report Symptoms of Depression in Organ Transplant Patients: Validation of a Multidimensional Model of CES-D Item Data - Irene D. Feurer, Hongxia Liu, Kenneth T. Thomas, Ronald M. Salomon, Theodore Speroff, and C. Wright Pinson

Session 23: Gross Flow and Calibration
Organizer:
Chair: Tiandong Li, Westat

A Proposed Estimation Procedure for CPS Gross Flows - Edwin L. Robison and Martha Duff
Keywords: gross flows, weighting, raking, current population survey

Trimming Extreme Weights in Household Surveys - Benmei Liu, David Ferraro, Erin Wilson, and J. Michael Brick
Keywords: outliers, influential observations, household surveys, detection methods

An Alternative to the Principal Person Method for Weighting in the American Community Survey - Keith A. Albright, Alfredo Navarro, and Mark Asiala
Keywords: American Community Survey, New York City Housing Vacancy Survey, weighting, poststratification, Principal Person

Sample Selection and Weighting Features of the National Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative Evaluation Study - Shelton Jones, Lei Li, Joseph McMichael, Harper Gordek, and Allison Burns
Keywords: survey sampling, sample weighting, multi-wave study

Effects of Collapsing Rows/Columns of Weighting Matrix on Weights - Jay J. Kim
Keywords: weighting matrix, cell-collapsing, coverage, coverage ratio, bias, variance

Estimating Sampling Weights for the U.S. Consumer Price Index - Sylvia G. Leaver and Darin T. Solk
Keywords: probability sampling, consumer expenditure, variance estimation

Session 26: Small Area Estimation #1
Organizer:
Chair: Georgia R. Roberts, Statistics Canada

Nonparametric Small-area Estimation Using Penalized Spline Regression - J. D. Opsomer, F. J. Breidt, G. Claeskens, G. Kauermann, and M. G. Ranalli
Keywords: mixed model, survey estimation

A Method of Reconciling Discrepant National and Sub-National Employment and Unemployment Estimates - P.A.V.B. Swamy, Jatinder S. Mehta, and I-Lok Chang
Keywords: sample survey, small area estimation, errors in the variables model, heteroscedastic nonlinear regression, stochastic coefficient estimation, iteratively rescaled generalized least squares estimation

A Study of Mass Imputation in Small Area Estimation - Nancy Robbins and Richard A. Moore, Jr.
Keywords: mass imputation, small area estimation

Small-area Estimation with Autocorrelated Observations and Stochastic Benchmark Constraints - Richard B. Tiller and Danny Pfeffermann

M-quantile Models for Small-area Estimation - Raymond Chambers and Nikolaos Tzavidis

Exploring the Feasibility of Using Small-area Estimation to Estimate Health Behaviors in Remote Areas in Taiwan - Hsing-Yi Chang

Model-based Approaches for a Land-cover Map Accuracy Assessment of Northeastern Iowa - Ben Skalland, Tapabrata Maiti, and Sarah Nusser

Session 28: Imputation
Organizer:
Chair: Ibrahim S. Yansaneh, International Civil Service Commission

Imputation Strategy for a Health and Nutrition Survey - Pippa Simpson, Jeffrey Gossett, ChanHee Jo, and Margaret Bogle

Practical Suggestions on Rounding in Multiple Imputation - Recai M. Yucel and Alan M. Zaslavsky
Keywords: Missing data, multivariate normal, multiple imputation, categorical data imputation, missing data software

Comparing Estimates and Variances for a Data Set with Hot Deck Imputations - Nuria Diaz-Tena, and Frank Potter
Keywords: item nonresponse, imputation, multiple imputation, hot deck imputation, supplemental security income

Imputation and Unbiased Estimation: Use of Centered Predictive Mean Neighborhood Method - A.C. Singh, E.A. Grau, and R.E. Folsom, Jr.

Potential Methodologies for Count Imputation for the Decennial Census - Richard A. Griffin
Keywords: EM Algorithm, multinomial distribution, log linear model, spatial models

Session 41: Creative Approaches to Combat the Brutal Environment of Telephone Surveys
Organizer: Roberta L. Sangster, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair: Brenda G. Cox, Battelle

Altering the Hold Period for Refusal Conversion Cases in an RDD Survey - Sherman Edwards, Dave Martin, Charles DiSogra, and David Grant

Optimizing Call Scheduling in an RDD Survey - Whitney Murphy and Colm O'Muircheartaigh

Predicting Wave Nonresponse from Prior Wave Data Quality - Brian J. Meekins and Roberta L. Sangster
Keywords: data quality, panel attrition

Modeling the Likelihood of Interviews and Refusals: Using Call History Data to Improve Efficiency of Effort in a National RDD Survey - Roberta L. Sangster and Brian J. Meekins
Keywords: call history, efficiency, RDD

Two Advance-letter Experiments to Raise Response Rates - Charles D. Shuttles, Paul J. Lavrakas, and Jennie Lai

Session 52: Calibration
Organizer:
Chair: Tamara S. Adams, U.S. Census Bureau

Calibration Methods for Foreign and Domestic Investment in Canada - Leon Jang and Marie-Claude Duval
Keywords: calibration, country of control

Golden and Silver Jubilee Year-2003 of the Linear Regression Estimators - Sarjinder Singh
Keywords: model assisted calibration, linear regression estimator, GREG, estimation of total and variance

Survey Calibration to CPS Household Statistics - Varma Nadimpalli, David Judkins, and Adam Chu
Keywords: raking, poststratification, control totals

Calibrated Imputation for the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) - Andrea R. Piesse and James L. Green
Keywords: imputation, calibration, mathematical programming

Calibration Weighting and its Effect on Measures of Variation - Richard A. Moore
Keywords: calibration, random group replication, general variance function

Minimum MSE Regression Estimation--May be Upper Bound but not Lower Bound of Variance - Mingue Park

Calibration Estimation for Quantiles - Torsten N.J. Harms and Pierre Duchesne

Session 58: Imputation and Missing Values
Organizer:
Chair: Moon Jung Cho, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Comparing Impact of Alternative Approaches for Item Non-Response in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey - Mark Crankshaw
Keywords: sample survey, labor statistics, donors, nearest neighbor imputation, ratio data

Embedding Logical Check and Edit in an Automated Hot-Deck Imputation of Survey Data - Rong Huang and Wei Yen
Keywords: logical check, automated edit and imputation, quality control, hot deck imputation, survey

Comparison of the Characteristic Imputation in 2000 Census to the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation Survey for Matched Persons - Robert D. Sands
Keywords: imputation, coverage survey, census

A Simple Evaluation of the Imputation Procedures Used in NSDUH - E.A. Grau, P. Frechtel, D.M. Odom, and D. Painter
Keywords: predictive mean neighborhoods, sequential hot deck, predictive mean matching, nearest neighbor imputation, imputation evaluation

Non-response Adjustment in IRS' Taxpayer Compliance Studies - Karen Masken

Using Name Information to Impute Respondent Demographics - Darryl V. Creel, Paul Guerino, and Donsig Jang

Session 69: Data-Quality and Data-Confidentiality of Microdata
Organizer: Kerrie E. Boyle, RTI International
Chair: Kerrie E. Boyle, RTI International

Combined-year State-level and Single-year Nation-level Public Use Files from the National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health Data - A.C. Singh, D. Wright, and F. Yu
Keywords: MASSC method, random substitution, random subsampling

Application of MASSC to a Survey of Health Related Behaviors among Military Personnel - G. H. Dunteman, F. Yu, S. Chen, and D. Wang
Keywords: disclosure risk, information loss, MASSC, DoD, PUFs

GUI-software demonstration for MASSC application - D. Wang, D. H. Wilson, and F. Yu

Protecting Quality and Confidentiality of Data by MASSC: A Survey-sampling-based Method - David H. Wilson, Avinash Singh, and Feng Yu

Application of MASSC to Confidentiality Protection of NCHS-NHIS - Feng Yu, George H. Dunteman, and Lanting Dai

Session 76: Issues in Weighting and Estimation for Household Surveys
Organizer: Lawrence S. Cahoon, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Alan R. Tupek, U.S. Census Bureau

Earned Income and Longitudinal Attrition in the SIPP and SPD - David Hall, Smanchai Sae-Ung, and Jan Tin
Keywords: longitudinal survey, nonresponse, attrition bias, earned income, survey data quality, weighting, Social Security, administrative records

Evaluation of Variance Estimation Methods Based on an SPD Longitudinal File - Smanchai Sae-Ung, David W. Hall, and C. Dennis Sissel
Keywords: variance estimation, replicate weights, balanced repeated replication, successive difference replication, residual technique of linearization, complex survey

Preliminary Effects of Oversampling on the National Crime Victimization Survey - Katrina Washington, Barbara Blass, and Karen King
Keywords: oversampling, crime, NCVS

Weighting Alternatives to Compensate for Longitudinal Nonresponse in the Survey of Income and Program Participation - Leroy Bailey

Multivariate Modeling and Standard Error Estimation Using the Current Population Survey: An Examination of Various Approaches - Arthur F. Jones, Gestur Davidson, Lynn A. Blewett, Michael Davern, and James Lepkowski

Session 77: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Organizer: Trena M. Ezzati-Rice, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Chair: Trena M. Ezzati-Rice, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Overview of Methodology for Imputing Missing Expenditure Data in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Steven R. Machlin and Deborah D. Dougherty
Keywords: MEPS, medical expenses, imputation, hot deck

Investigation of the Impact of Imputation on Variance Estimation of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) - Robert M. Baskin, Lap-Ming Wun, John Sommers, Marc Zodet, Steven R. Machlin, Trena M. Ezzati-Rice, and Sourish Saha
Keywords: balanced repeated replication (BRR), Rao-Shao adjustment, Taylor method, collapsing, generalized variance function (GVF)

Examination of Skewed Health Expenditure Data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) - William W. Yu and Steve Machlin
Keywords: Medical expenditures, skewness, sample size, confidence interval

Class Variables for MEPS Expenditure Imputations - Marc W. Zodet, Diana Z. Wobus, Steven R. Machlin, David Kashihara, and Deborah D. Dougherty
Keywords: MEPS, health care expenditures, item non-response, hot-deck imputation

Predicting Medical Expenditures Using Survey Data - Joel W. Cohen

Session 79: Survey Analysis
Organizer:
Chair: William H. Swallow, North Carolina State University

Response Models in RDD Surveys: Utilizing Genesys Telephone-Exchange Data - Stephen Williams, Ronghua (Cathy) Lu, and John Hall
Keywords: nonresponse, weighting, propensity modeling, RDD telephone survey

Comparing Matchers to Enhance Front-End Capture of Duplicate Addresses - Mark Moran

Comparison of the American Community Survey's Three-Year Averages and the Census Sample for a Sample of Counties - Gregg Diffendal, Rita Petroni, and Andre Williams
Keywords: Census Long Form, graphical display, Census Profile Data

Minimum Change Edit and Imputation for the 2006 Canadian Census - Darryl Janes and Michael Bankier

A Hybrid Estimation Approach to State Level Estimates in the Survey of Industrial Research and Development - John Slanta and Jeri M. Mulrow

Estimation Challenges associated with the Increase of Use of the Tax Data for the Unified Enterprise Survey - Claude Nadeau and Sylvie Gauthier

Session 83: Longitudinal and Hierarchical Modeling for Health Policy
Organizer:
Chair: Anamaria S. Kazanis, University of Michigan

Single Level Mediation: Estimation and Sampling Distribution of the Mediated Effect when X is Dichotomous and Y are Continuous - Oumar S. Sy

Emergency Department Visits Among COPD Patients: An Example of Repeat Single and Recurrent-event Analysis - Jianglin Xu, Todd Lee, Whitney Witt, and Ramon A. Durazo-Arvizu

A Markov Chain Model of Functional Decline in Activities of Daily Living Among Nursing Home Patients Using MDS Quarterly Assessment Data - Richard C. Gardiner, Colene Byrne, and Hailing Li

Optimal Designs for Bayesian Hospital Report Cards - Peter C. Austin

A Dirichlet Multinomial Logistic Regression Model: Physician Assistant Autonomy - Jeffrey R. Wilson, Eugene Schneller, and Baohui Zhang

Session 100: Record Linkage and Unduplication Methodology and Results
Organizer: Michael D. Larsen, Iowa State University
Chair: Thomas R. Belin, University of California, Los Angeles br>

An Analysis of Person Duplication in Census 2000 - Robert E. Fay
Keywords: Census duplication, erroneous enumeration, computer matching

Administrative Records and Person Duplication in Census - Mark Bauder
Keywords: record linkage, duplicate enumeration, administrative records

A Record Linkage Strategy to Match New Source Lists - Tom Pordugal, Kara Daniel, Stan Hoge, and Bill Iwig
Keywords: record linkage, list frame, SuperStan, SuperMatch

Bigmatch: A Program for Large-Scale Record Linkage - William E. Yancey
Keywords: record linkage

A Bayesian Record Linkage Methodology for Multiple Imputation of Missing Links - Michael H. McGlincy
Keywords: Bayesian, record linkage, multiple imputation

Session 105: Analyses of Call History to Improve Telephone Surveys-Survival Analysis Applications
Organizer: Hiroaki Minato, NORC, University of Chicago
Chair: Jill M. Montaquila, Westat

Evaluating the Survival Analysis Method for Estimating Residency Rates - Barbara Lepidus Carlson and Daniel Kasprzyk
Keywords: RDD, response rate, residency, Community Tracking Study, CASRO, survival analysis

Toward a Better Estimation of Working Residential Number (WRN) Rate Among the Undetermined: An Application of Survival Analysis - Hiroaki Minato and Lidan Luo

Estimating the Working Number Rate for a Cellular Telephone Survey - Charlotte Steeh and Zhenhua Hu

Session 107: Small Area Estimation II
Organizer: Ferry Butar Butar, Sam Houston State University
Chair: David A. Marker, Westat

Two Stage Non-Parametric Approach for Small Area Estimation - Pushpal Mukhopadhyay and Tapabrata Maiti

A Bayesian Approach for Combining Information from Multiple Surveys in Small-area Estimation Using Public-use Data - Dawei Xie and Trivellore E. Raghunathan

Empirical Bayes Estimation Smoothing of Relative Risks in Disease-mapping - Jane L. Meza

Comparing Different Small-area Estimators of Income Parameters in Panel Surveys - Maria R. Ferrante, Silvia Pacei, and Enrico Fabrizi

Session 149: Statistical Approaches for Web Survey Data
Organizer: Sunghee Lee, University of Maryland
Chair: Gosta Forsman, Linkoping University

Adjusting responses in a Non-probability Web Panel Survey by the Propensity Score Weighting - Osamu Yoshimura
Keywords: web survey, non-probability online panel, probability online panel, the propensity score, weighting

On the Variability of Estimates Based on Propensity Score Weighted Data from Web Panels - Annica Isaksson, Stig Danielsson, and Gosta Forsman
Keywords: Web surveys, propensity score adjustment, variance estimation

Adjusting for Selection Bias in Web Surveys Using Propensity Scores: The Case of the Health and Retirement Study - Matthias Schonlau, Arthur van Soest, Arie Kapteyn, Mick Couper, and Joachim Winter

Propensity Score Matching as a Bias Correction Method for Internet-based Studies - John Bremer, George Terhanian, and Paul Strange

Propensity Score Adjustment for Web Surveys - Sunghee Lee

Session 150: Multiple Imputation
Organizer: Susanne Rässler, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Chair: Mortaza Jamshidian, California State University, Fullerton

Refining Multivariate Normal Imputations to Accommodate Non-Normal Data - Juwon Song1 and Thomas R. Belin
Keywords: multiple imputation, multivariate normal distribution, importance sampling, SIR algorithm

Session on MI: Applications and Comparisons - Wei Chen

Multiple Imputation of Missing Income Data in the National Health Interview Survey - Nathaniel Schenker, Trivellore Ragunathan, Pei-Lu Chiu, Diane Makuc, Guangyu Zhang, and Alan Cohen

Assessing Potential Precision Gains Using Imputation to Combine Administrative Data with Sampled Outcomes - Thomas R. Belin and Jun Xing

A Comparison of Multiple Imputation and Other Unit-nonresponse Compensating Techniques in Fear of Crime Surveys - Susanne Rässler and Rainer Schnell

Session 160: Design Issues for Health Surveys
Organizer:
Chair: Benmei Liu, Westat

Statistics Canada, Croatian Ministry of Health and Central Bureau of Statistics: A Joint Effort in Implementing the 2003 Croatian Adult Health Survey - Yves Béland, Lorna Bailie, and Jerry Page
Keywords: cross-sectional, health survey, anthropometric measures

NYC Hanes: Design of a Community Health and Nutrition Examination Survey - Jill M. Montaquila, Leyla Mohadjer, R. Charon Gwynn, Lorna Thorpe, and Jill Montaquila
Keywords: sample design, local study, area sample

Why Large Design Effects Can Occur in Complex Sample Designs: Examples from the NHANES 1999-2000 Survey - David A. Lacher, Lester R. Curtin, and Jeffery P. Hughes
Keywords: design effect, complex sample, variance estimation, NHANES, laboratory testing

Adapting to Emerging Health Information Needs with the Canadian Community Health Survey - Marc Hamel, Yves Béland, and Johane Dufour

Analysis of NHANES 1999-2002: One Four-year or Two Two-year Surveys? - Lester R. Curtin and Margaret D. Carroll

Dissemination Strategy for Statistics Canada's Canadian Community Health Survey - Mario Bédard, Yves Béland, and Larry Macnabb

Session 162: Model-based Estimation
Organizer:
Chair: Stephen M. Miller, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Estimating the Level of Underreporting of Expenditures among Expenditure Reporters: A Micro-Level Latent Class Analysis - Clyde Tucker, Paul Biemer, Brian Meekins, and Jennifer Shields

The Posterior Likelihood - Hee-Choon Shin
Keywords: Bayes, Fisher, inverse probability, likelihood, posterior, prior, meta-analysis

Measurement of Mail Volumes- An Application of Model Assisted Estimation - Stephen Woodruff, David W. Hall, and Charles Dennis Sissel
Keywords: ratio estimation, regression model

Comparative Effectiveness of Administrative Data and Country-Level Aggregates in Nonresponse Adjustments for Surveys of Low-Income Populations - Frank Potter, Mourad Touzani, Ronghua Lu, Yuhong Zheng, and Zhanyun Zhao

On Fitting the Proportional Hazards Model to Data from Complex Surveys - Susana Rubin Bleuer
Keywords: proportional hazards, complex survey data, counting processes

Predicted and Conditional Marginals for Cox's Proportional Hazards Model Using SUDAAN - Elvessa D. Aragon-Logan, G. Gordon Brown, Babubhai Shah, and Beth Barnwell

Model-based Estimates of the Finite Population Mean for Two-stage Cluster Samples with Unit Nonresponse - Ying Yuan and Roderick J. Little

Session 165: Questionnaire Design and Reducing Respondent Error
Organizer:
Chair: Polly Phipps, Washington State Institute for Public Policy

When Less is More: Are Reluctant Respondents Poor Reporters? - Ting Yan, Roger Tourangeau, and Zac Arens

Patterns of Proxy Usages in the 2001 National Household Travel Survey - Jonaki Bose and Lee Giesbrecht
Keywords: proxy responses, travel data, NHTS, data quality

Family Income Response Patterns for Varying Levels of Income Detail: An Analysis of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) - John R. Pleis and James M. Dahlhamer
Keywords: family income, socioeconomic status, item nonresponse

Confidence Elicitation and Anchoring in the Respondent-Generated Intervals (RGI) Protocol - LiPing Chu, S. James Press, and Judith M.Tanur
Keywords: RGI, surveys, bayes, hierarchical models, record-checks, anchoring

A Comparison of Perception-based and Behavior-based Measures on Sexual Orientation in a Telephone Health Survey - Wei Yen, Charles DiSogra, David Grant, and Rong Huang

Score Redevelopment Utilizing Factor Analysis and Expert Knowledge: Creating a Briefer BERS - Laura S. Morris, Karen Hennigan, Lisa Russell, Debbie Rinehart, and Nina Kammerer

Achieving the Connection between Usability and Advanced Visual Design Principles for Designing Establishment Surveys - Don A. Dillman and Arina Gersteva

Session 183: Current Topics in RDD Surveys
Organizer: Meena Khare, National Center for Health Statistics
Chair: James Lepkowski, University of Michigan

A Dual Frame Sampling Design for an RDD Survey that Screens for a Rare Population - K.P. Srinath, Michael P. Battaglia, and Meena Khare

Moving the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System from RDD to Multimode: A Web/Mail/Telephone Experiment - Michael W. Link and Ali Mokdad

Household Telephone Service and Usage Patterns in the U.S. in 2004 - Clyde Tucker, J. Michael Brick, Brian Meekins, and David Morganstein
Keywords: cell phones, landlines, coverage bias

The Prevalence of Wireless Telephone Substitution - Julian V. Luke, Stephen J. Blumberg, and Marcie Cynamon

Meeting the Challenge of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the FCC Telecommunications Act: Development of a Process to Identify Landline Telephone Numbers Ported to Cellular Phones - Dale W. Kulp

Session 195: Interviewer Issues
Organizer:
Chair: Gwyn R. Ferguson, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Interviewer Experience and Interview Behaviors - Kristen Olson and Andy Peytchev
Keywords: interviewer effects, interviewer experience, interviewer behavior, interview order, interview length, HLM

Monitoring, Experience and Performance of CATI Interviewers in the American Community Survey - Dale Garrett, Andre Williams, and Rita Petroni
Keywords: feedback, quality control

Action at a Distance: Interviewer Effort and Nonresponse in the SCF - Arthur B. Kennickell
Keywords: nonresponse, interviewer effects, survey operations

Data-Driven Approaches to Identifying Interviewer Data Falsification: The Case of Health Surveys - Javier Porras and Ned English

Automatic Identification of Faked and Fraudulent Interviews in Surveys by Two Different Methods - Christin Schafer, Jorg-Peter Schrapler, Klaus-Robert Muller, and Gert G. Wagner

CAPI Versus Audio-CASI: Understanding the Role of Privacy - Mick P. Couper, Eleanor Singer, and Roger Tourangeau

Session 196: Variance Estimation I
Organizer:
Chair: Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr., National Center for Health Statistics

Zero-calibrated Variance Estimators - Michail Sverchkov, Alan H. Dorfman, Lawrence R. Ernst, and Christopher J. Guciardo
Keywords: jackknife, balance repeated replication, 2-phase design

Replicate Variance Estimation for the National Survey of Parents and Youths - Louis Rizzo and David Judkins
Keywords: multi-stage sampling, jackknife, finite population correction, balanced repeated replication, Durbin-Brewer, Yates-Grundy

Using the Fractional Imputation Methodology to Evaluate Variance Due to Hot Deck Imputation in Survey Data - Adriana Perez, John M. Finamore, and Jeffrey H. Stratton
Keywords: ignorability, missing at random, item nonresponse, serpentine sorting, nearest neighbor, successive difference replication

Variance Estimation for the National Compensation Survey When PSUs are Clustered Prior to the Second Phase of Sampling - Christopher J. Guciardo, Alan H. Dorfman, Lawrence R. Ernst, and Michail Sverchkov
Keywords: replication, zero-calibrated, BRR, jackknife, NCS

Replicate Variance Estimation For Combined Data of Independent Surveys - Donsig Jang and Amang Sukasih
Keywords: SESTAT, replication method, combined dataset

Replicate Allocation and Variance in the Shelter Component of the CPI - William E. Larson

The Bootstrap Variance Estimator in a Nested Two-stage Sample Design with High Sampling Rates - Steven Kaufman

Session 210: Comparing the Current Population Survey to the Census 2000 Using the CPS/Census Match
Organizer: Tamara S. Adams, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Tom Mule, U.S. Census Bureau

Examining Differences in the Labor Status in the Current Population Survey and the Census 2000 - Tamara Adams

Using Census Match Data to Evaluate Models of Survey Nonresponse - John Dixon

Issues in Weighting the Current Population Survey-Census Matched File - Andrew A. Zbikowski

Session 213: Retail and Trade Surveys: Accomplishments and Challenges
Organizer: Julie Trepanier, Statistics Canada
Chair: Wesley Yung, Statistics Canada

Expansion and Improvement of the U.S. Census Bureau's Retail and Wholesale Programs - Ruth E. Detlefsen
Keywords: sample selection, time series, data collection integration

Monitoring Survey Processes of the Canadian Monthly Wholesale and Retail Trade Survey - Mark Majkowski, Hélène Bérard, Catherine Dufour, and Susie Fortier
Keywords: monitoring, diagnostic tools, level estimates, trend

The Redesigned Canadian Monthly Wholesale and Retail Trade Survey: A Postmortem of the Implementation - Julie Trépanier
Keywords: retail trade, wholesale trade, size stratification, NAICS, births, deaths, misclassifications, evaluation

A New Estimator for the UK Retail Sales Inquiry - Peter Brodie

Session 215: Small Area Estimation III
Organizer: Ferry Butar Butar, Sam Houston State University
Chair: Richard B. Tiller, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Hierarchical Bayes Small Area Inference to the 2001 Census Undercoverage Estimation - Yong You and Peter Dick
Keywords: benckmarking, census, CV reduction, Gibbs sampling, PMSE, sampling variance

Small Area Estimates of Diabetes and Smoking Prevalence in North Carolina Counties: 1996-2002 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System - Akhil K. Vaish, Neeraja Sathe, and Ralph E. Folsom
Keywords: Survey Weighted Hierarchical Bayes, Pseudo Hierarchical Bayes, MCMC, diabetes, smoking, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and North Carolina County-Level Small Area Estimates

A Bayesian Prediction for Undecided Voters - Balgobin Nandram and Jai Won Choi

Small Area Estimation Errors in SAIPE Using GLM Versus FH Models - Eric V. Slud
Keywords: AIC, Fay-Herriot model, generalized linear mixed model, internal and external standards, loss function, small area estimation

Session 216: Joint Social, Government, and Survey Research Methods Statistics Sections Student Competition Winners
Organizer: Jana Asher, Carnegie Mellon University
Chair: Jonaki Bose, Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Imputation by Propensity Matching - Murthy N. Mittinty and Chacko. E
Keywords: propensity score, nearest neighbour, imputation, covariate

Imputing Missing Income Data and Weighting Data with Imputed Income - Bidisha Mandal and Elizabeth A. Stasny
Keywords: Hot deck imputation, mean imputation, regression imputation, RDD survey

Jointly Modeling Latent Trajectories and a Subsequent Outcome Variable: A Bayesian Approach - Sujata Patil and Trivellore E. Raghunathan

Using Double Sampling to Correct Gross Flows for Misclassification Error: Moment-based Inference vs. Likelihood-based Inference - Nikolaos Tzavidis

A Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling Approach to Age-period-cohort Analyses of Repeated Cross-section Survey Data - Yang Yang

Session 229: Variance Estimation II
Organizer:
Chair: Kennon R. Copeland, Bureau of Labor Statistics

A Generalization of the Coefficient of Variation with Application to Suppression of Imprecise Estimates - A.C. Singh, M. Westlake, and M. Feder
Keywords: Effective sample size, exact binomial, Length of confidence interval, Length of discrimination interval

Comparison of Variance Estimators Under Rao-Sampford Method: A Simulation Study - David Haziza, Fulvia Mecatti, and Jon N.K. Rao
Keywords: approximate joint inclusion probabilities, efficiency, relative bias, unequal probability sampling without replacement

Consumer Expenditure Estimation Incorporating Generalized Variance Functions in Hierarchical Bayes Models - Paul E. Hinrichs

Effects of Grouping Data on First and Second Distribution Moments - Jay J. Kim, Myron Katzoff, Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr., and Lawrence H. Cox
Keywords: interval data, class mark, midpoint, variance, data summarization, disclosure risk

Imputation Variance Estimation by Bootstrap Method for the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey - Yan Li, Carrie Lynch, Iris Shimizu, and Steve Kaufman
Keywords: complex sample survey, imputation, variance, bootstrap

Statistical Methodology for the Census 2000 Public Use Microdata Samples - Philip M. Gbur and Mary Frances Zelenak

Session 260: Innovations in Sample Weighting
Organizer: Phillip S. Kott, National Agricultural Statistics Service
Chair: Patrick Cantwell, U.S. Census Bureau

Evaluating Alternative Calibration Schemes for an Economic Survey with Large Nonresponse - Chadd Crouse and Phil. Kott
Keywords: nonresponse, quasi-randomization model, coverage adjustment, delete-a-group jackknife

Composite Response Rates for Surveys with Nonresponse Follow-up - A.C. Singh, J.A. Dever, and V.G. Iannacchione
Keywords: response rate as a finite population parameter, response under-reporting, follow-up surveys, dual-frame calibration

A Model-Based Approach to Trimming Weight - Michael R. Elliot

Mean Squared Error Estimation for the Coverage and Nonresponse-adjusted U.S. Census of Agriculture - Matthew J. Fetter and Phillip S. Kott

Session 275: Sampling and Simulation
Organizer:
Chair: Andrew F. Siegel, University of Washington

Minimum Sample Sizes with Rare Events in Stratified Designs - Eric Falk, Joomi Kim, and Wendy Rotz

The Accuracy of Multi-Year Estimates vs. Annual Estimates for R&D Tax Credit - Wendy Rotz and Jinhee Yang
Keywords: cumulative estimates, tax, R&D

A Comparison of Random Number Generators Used in Business – 2004 Update - Wendy Rotz, Eric Falk, and Archana Joshee
Keywords: RNG, Excel, SAS, DIEHARD, NIST statistical test suite

A Better Estimate of the Number of Valid Signatures on a Petition - Mary M. Whiteside and Mark E. Eakin

A Generalized Maximum Entropy Approach to Estimating Missing Categorical Dependent Variable Values - Lawrence C. Marsh and Amos Golan

Broadening the Scope of the Bootstrap in Complex Problems - Manuel A. Dominguez and Victor Aguirre

Estimating Variability in Biodiversity--Ecosystem Function Experiments with Resampling Methods - Kevin Gross and Bradley J. Cardinale

Session 277: After the Survey: Analysis and Public Use of Government Surveys
Organizer:
Chair: Brad Edwards, Westat

Immigrant-Non-immigrant Differences in Canadian Health Care Utilization - Monica Boyd and Evelyn Park

Using National Health Interview Survey Data to Detect Signals of Natural or Intentional Outbreaks - Abera Wouhib, Doug Williams, Myron J. Katzoff, and Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr.

Enhanced Outreach Activities Involving Data from the National Center for Health Statistics - Robert Weinzimer, Mary Moien, and Lisa Grabert
Keywords: data dissemination, marketing

Do NCTM Reform Practices Matter? Predicting Precollege Student Mathematics Achievement Using NAEP 2000 Data - Mack C. Shelley, II and Sarah T. Lubienski
Keywords: hierarchical linear models, imputation, numeracy

Growth in Mathematics Achievement during Middle and High School: Analysis With Classification and Regression Trees - Xin Ma

The Relationship between Wages and Alcohol Dependence - Richard R. Bryant and V. A. Samaranayake

Session 278: Sample Designs
Organizer:
Chair: Michael Yang, NORC, University of Chicago

Obtaining Stratum Breaks in Skewed Populations Using a Simple Method - P. Gunningz, J.M. Horganxand, and G. Keogh
Keywords: efficiency, geometric progression, optimum allocation, Stratification

Assessing Complex Sample Designs via Design Effect Decompositions - Inho Park
Keywords: stratified sampling, clustering, intracluster correlation coefficient, nonresponse adjustment, unequal weighting, simulation study

Sample Selection by Powers of Size when Needing Estimates at Multiple Levels - Pedro J. Saavedra and Harley K. Heimovitz

Optimal Sample Allocation for Design-consistent Regression - Hui Zheng, Alan Zaslavsky, and John L. Adams

Optimal Stratification Based on Nonparametric Regression Methods - Enrico Fabrizi and Carlo Trivisano

A Study of an Optimization Method Used for the Planning of a Complex Multivariate Survey - Anders Holmberg

Balanced Sampling Excluding Adjacent Units - James Wright

Session 279: Government Surveys
Organizer:
Chair: Marie Stetser, U.S. General Accounting Office

Evaluation of Unique Aspects of the Sample Design for the National Compensation - Lawrence R. Ernst, Christopher J. Guciardo, and Yoel Izsak
Keywords: Rotating panel design, PSUs, PPS sampling

Use of Overlap Maximization in the Redesign of the National Compensation Survey - Lawrence R. Ernst, Yoel Izsak, and Steven P. Paben
Keywords: sample redesign, overlap maximization, transportation theory

Challenges in the Design and Implementation of the Adult Education Literacy Study - Thomas Krenzke and Leyla Mohadjer
Keywords: sample Design, sampling frame, adult education, literacy assessment

Group Quarters Sampling and Estimation Full Implementation Plans for the American Community Survey - Mark E. Asiala
Keywords: American Community Survey, ACS, group quarters, GQ, sampling, estimation

Canadian Labour Force Survey - Guy Laflamme

Is My Panel Survey Still Representative? A New Method for Detecting whether Two Subsamples Represent the Same Universe--The German Socio-Economic Panel Study Experience - Jan Goebel, Joachim R. Frick, Edna Schechtman, Gert G. Wagner, and Shlomo Yitzhaki

Session 296: Analyses of Call History to Improve Telephone Surveys--General
Organizer: Hiroaki Minato, NORC, University of Chicago
Chair: Hiroaki Minato, NORC, University of Chicago

Gaining Efficiencies in Scheduling Callbacks in Large RDD National Surveys - Jeffery A. Stec, Paul J. Lavrakas, and Charles W. Shuttles
Keywords: call history, calling rules, callback rules

Using Call History in a Panel Survey to Better Inform Current Interview Scheduling - Charles C. Mason

Targeted Call-scheduling for Demographic Subgroups - Ellen C. Mecklenburg

Session 309: Coverage
Organizer:
Chair: Kristen Olson, University of Michigan

Classification of Address Register Coverage Rates - A Field Study - Gavin Thompson and Claude Turmelle
Keywords: Labour Force Survey, address register, coverage rates

Building a Sampling Frame from Multiple Lists: Identifying Organizations in the Voluntary and Not-for-profit Section in Canada - Linda Lefebvre and Peter G. Wright
Keywords: record linkage, hierarchical exact matching

A Methodology for Enumerating U.S. Citizens Living Overseas - Mary Frances E. Zelenak

Methodological Lessons from Census 2000 Coverage Error Measurement - Mary H. Mulry
Keywords: dual system estimator, nonsampling error, undercount, overcount

Census Coverage Measurement Design Alternatives - Michael Beaghen
Keywords: duplication, omission, gross error, any address match, extended search area

Re-delivery Operation for Undeliverable as Addressed Housing Units in Census 2000 - Felipe Kohn

A Stochastic Process Approach to Estimating Population Size - Emily S. Murphree

Session 313: Improving the Quality of Data Collected by Government Organizations
Organizer:
Chair: Steve Hanway, Gallup Organization

The Quality Framework: A Guide for Measuring Quality at the National Center for Health Statistics - Kenneth W. Harris

Measuring the Impact of Questionnaire and Envelope Messages on Respondent Behavior - Theresa F. Leslie, Deborah H. Griffin, Pamela D. McGovern, and David A. Raglin
Keywords: questionnaire design, mail survey response, voluntary data collection, government surveys

Use of Respondent Burden Measurements at NASS - Wendy Scholetzky
Keywords: burden measurements, respondent burden, annual cycle

Survey Documentation: On the Path to Enlightenment - Shawna Waugh
Keywords: survey documentation, survey quality, standards, and knowledge transfer

Using Results from Census 2000 for Planning the 2010 Census - Florence H. Abramson and Agnes S. Kee

Making a Long Questionnaire Short: Alternatives to Reducing the Items on the Veterans Health Administration Learners' Perceptions Survey - Stephen J. Dienstfrey, Evert Milander, and Gianna Dusch

Session 327: New Methodology for Estimating Census Coverage Error Using Multiple Systems
Organizer: Paul P. Biemer, RTI International and UNC-CH
Chair: Howard Hogan, U.S. Census Bureau

Estimating Erroneous Enumeration in the US Decennial Census Using Four Lists - G. Gordon Brown, Paul P. Biemer, and Dean H. Judson
Keywords: dual system estimation, census undercount, latent class analysis, capture-recapture

Multiple System Estimation with Erroneous Enumerations - Paul P. Biemer, G. Gordon Brown, and Dean H. Judson

Individual-level Multiple Systems Estimation: Predicting Census Day Residency - Elizabeth A. Stuart and Alan Zaslavsky

Multiple Systems Estimation Methods in the Context of a Combination of Census-based and Sample-based Lists - Jana Asher and Stephen E. Fienberg

Session 334: Quality Assessment of Administrative Records Data
Organizer: Barry W. Johnson, Internal Revenue Service
Chair: Arthur B. Kennickell, Federal Reserve Board

Assessing Industry Codes on the IRS Business Master File - Paul B. McMahon

Data Interpretation Across Sources: A Study of Form 990-PF Information Collected from Multiple Databases - Melissa Ludlum
Keywords: private foundation, stratified sample, administrative data, coefficient of variation

The Effect of Content Errors on Bias and Non-sampling Variance in Estimates Derived From Samples of Administrative Records - Barry W. Johnson and Darien B. Jacobson
Keywords: bias, non-sampling error

Editor Judgment Effect: Modeling a Key Component of Nonsampling Error in Administrative Data - Kimberly Henry, Yahia Ahmed, and Ellen Legel
Keywords: data quality, net difference rate, index of inconsistency

The Evolution of IRS Telephone Quality Measures - Laura Rosage
Keywords: quality, defects per opportunity, accuracy

Session 342: Nonresponse Adjustments
Organizer:
Chair: Jai W. Choi, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Does Weighting for Nonresponse Increase the Variance of Survey Means? - Roderick J. Little and Sonya Vartivarian
Keywords: missing data, nonresponse adjustment, sampling weights, survey nonresponse

Efficient Nonresponse Weighting Adjustment Using Estimated Response Probability - Jae Kwang Kim
Keywords: regression estimator, propensity score, survey sampling, unit nonresponse, variance estimation

Modeling of Response Propensities in the Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health - Meena Khare and Karen E. Davis
Keywords: logistic regression, weighting class, nonresponse, noncoverage

Response Propensity Weighting for the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Insurance Component (MEPS - IC) - John Sommers, Steven Riesz, and David Kashihara
Keywords: weighting, health insurance, poststratification, non-response

Statistical Profile of the JOLTS Program - Charlotte D. Mueller and Mark Crankshaw

Evaluation of Response Rates Over Time in a Mixed-mode Survey - Holly B. Shulman, Brenda Colley Gilbert, and Amy Lansky

Session 369: Small Area Estimation IV
Organizer: William R. Bell, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: William R. Bell, U.S. Census Bureau

An Empirical Study on Using ACS Supplementary Survey Data in SAIPE State Poverty Models - Elizabeth T. Huang and William R. Bell
Keywords: small area estimation, Fay-Herriot model, bivariate model

Investigating the use of IRS Tax Data in the SAIPE School District Poverty Estimates - Jerry J. Maples and William R. Bell
Keywords: small area estimates, share models, logistic regression

School District Population Estimates Methodology Research Using Administrative Data Sources: Public School Enrollment - Monique Oosse

New Developments in SAIPE County Median Household Income Models - Geoffrey M. Gee

Small-area Estimation of Health Insurance Coverage from the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement and the Survey of Income and Program Participation - Joanna M. Turner and Robin C. Fisher

Session 370: Statistical Partnerships between Academia and Industry Government
Organizer: Cynthia Z.F. Clark, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Cynthia Z.F. Clark, U.S. Census Bureau

The Harvard/Schering-Plough Partnership: A Broad and Beneficial Relationship - Kenneth Koury, L. J. Wei, and Stephen Lagakos

Role of SPAIG in Encouraging and Developing Partnerships - Robert R. Starbuck

The NISS Affiliates Program: Furthering Collaboration between Academe and Industry/Government - Alan F. Karr

Impact of the NSF/ASA Research Fellowship Program on the Research Program of Federal Statistical Agencies - Tommy Wright and Cynthia Z.F. Clark

Session 387: Sampling and Other Aspects of Survey Design
Organizer:
Chair: M. P. Singh, Statistics Canada

Design Effects of Linked Population/Establishment Surveys - Monroe G. Sirken and Iris Shimizu
Keywords: establishment transactions, population survey-generated establishment sampling frame, network sampling, multiplicity estimator, conventional survey estimator

Triad Sampling in Household Surveys - Jeremy Aldworth and James R. Chromy
Keywords: Brewer's Method, Sampford's Method, household rosters, person selection, unequal probability Sampling

Responsive Design for Household Surveys - Steven G. Heeringa and Robert M. Groves
Keywords: survey nonresponse, responsive design, propensity models, paradata, multi-phase sampling

An Example of Using Two-phase Sampling Techniques to Integrate Disjoint Surveys and Data Sources into One Survey - Jack Lothian and Tracy Tabuchi
Keywords: two-phase sample design, administrative data, survey design

Empirical Study on the Second-stage Sample Size - Yan Liu, Mary Batcher, Ryan Petska, and Amy Luo
Keywords: jackknife, ratio estimation, stratified sampling, two-stage sampling

The NASS Question Repository System - Daniel G. Beckler

Quality Control of Data Entry for the American Community Survey and the Impact of Errors on Data Quality - Andre Williams, Dale Garrett, and Rita Petroni
Keywords: mailout, keying, data capture, consequential errors, quality control

Session 388: Record Linkage and Administrative Data
Organizer:
Chair: Stephen Woodruff, United States Postal Service

Regression-based Statistical Matching: Recent Developments - Chris Moriarity and Fritz Scheuren
Keywords: data fusion, RIEPS

Statistical Use of Goods and Services Tax Data in Statistics Canada's Monthly Economic Surveys - Louis Pierre and Marie Broden

Using GIS-Based Property Tax Records as an Alternative to Traditional Household Listing in Area Samples - William D. Kalsbeek, Sarah T. Kavanagh, and Jingjing Wu

Session 389: Variance Estimation III
Organizer:
Chair: Michael Sverchkov, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Inclusion Probability Proportional to Size Sampling: A Nonlinear Programming Approach to Ensure a Nonnegative and Stable Variance Estimator - Sun-Woong Kim, Steven G. Heeringa, and Peter W. Solenberger
Keywords: Sen-Yates-Grundy variance estimator, second-order inclusion probabilities, binary block designs, nonlinear programming

Jackknife Variance Estimation for Two Samples after Imputation under Two-Phase Sampling - Jong-Min Kim and Jon E. Anderson

Double Sampling in a Multi-stage Design - David R. Judkins and Michael Hidiroglou
Keywords: controlled selection, variance estimation, Rao-Sampford selection

Covariance Estimates in Stratified and Multistage Clustered Sampling - Dhiren Ghosh and Andrew Vogt

Modeling of Stratum Variance for Use in Sample Allocation in Agricultural Area Frame Surveys - Charles R. Perry, Raj S. Chhikaral, and Floyd M. Spears
Keywords: composite variance estimation, model fit, multivariate allocation, stratified sample design, variance function

The Variance of Sample Variance for a Finite Population - Eungchun Cho
Keywords: variance of variance, variance estimator, sampling variance, randomization variance, moments

Using the Peters-Belson Method to Measure Disparity in Complex Surveys - Sowmya R. Rao, Barry I. Graubard, and Joseph L. Gastwirth

Session 399: Nonresponse Issues in Panel Surveys
Organizer: Kennon R. Copeland, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair: Robert Santos, NuStats Partners

Response Rates and Nonresponse in BLS and Census Bureau Establishment Surveys - Rita Petroni, Richard Sigman, Diane Willimack, Steve Cohen, and Clyde Tucker
Keywords: response rate definitions, response rate measurement, response rate trends, methods to encourage response

Modeling of Survey Response Rates and Reporting Rates in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey - Moon J. Cho and John L. Eltinge
Keywords: digit preference, graphical methods, interviewer effect, model identification information and constraints, model selection, quarterly interview effect

Characteristics of Survey Attrition in the Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) - David Kashihara and Trena M. Ezzati-Rice
Keywords: nonresponse bias, weight adjustments, panel survey

Using Propensity Scores to Adjust Weights to Compensate for Dwelling Unit Level Nonresponse in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Lap-Ming Wun, Trena M. Ezzati-Rice, Robert Baskin, Janet Greenblatt, and Marc Zodet
Keywords: weighting, logistic regression, poststratification

A Pattern-mixture Model for Panel Nonresponse in the Current Employment Statistics Survey - Kennon R. Copeland

Session 400: Issues in Nonsampling Error
Organizer: Jimmie B. Scott, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Candice A. Barnes, U.S. Census Bureau

Synchronizing Survey Edit and Imputation Systems: A Look at the American Housing Survey's Utility System - Mark Gorsak and Dennis Schwanz
Keywords: utilities, American Housing Survey, psychology of survey response

Comparison of Two Imputation Methods in the Survey of Doctorate Recipients - Jeffrey Stratton, John Finamore, and Todd Williams
Keywords: Hot Deck imputation, flexible matching imputation

Resources vs. Coverage - How to Minimize One and Maximize the Other: A Case Study form an Education Survey - Nancy R. Johnson, Meagan M. Wilson, Karen D. Deaver, and Stephen P. Broughman
Keywords: measuring quality – coverage, targeting, private school survey, quality reporting and quality indicators, improving process quality

Converting from Paper to an Automated Mode for Collecting Group Quarters Data for Demographic Surveys - Sherry E. Thorpe
Keywords: frame development,group quarters, non-sampling error, automated instrument, demographic surveys, sample redesign

Latent Class Models for Analysis of Response Error and Rotation Group Bias in the Current Population Survey - Khandaker Mansur and Bac Tran

Session 401: Special Editing and Imputation Problems for Economic Data
Organizer: Katherine Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Katherine Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau

Searching for Donors: Finding an Imputation Strategy - Michael Hogye
Keywords: imputation, donor, editing

Using Shortest-Path Algorithms to Derive Implied Ratio Edits - Brian Greenberg and James T. Fagan
Keywords: economic editing, SPEER edit system, ratio edits

Use of GST Data by the Monthly Survey of Manufacturing - Wesley Yung, Krista Cook, and Steven Thomas
Keywords: administrative data, goods and services tax, monthly survey of manufacturing

Evaluating Regression Imputation Models: An Example from the Services Sectors Portion of the Economic Census - Quatracia Williams and Katherine J. Thompson

Automated Production of Foreign Trade Data Edit Parameters Using Resistant Fences - Ryan M. Fescina, Andrew S. Jennings, and Monica J. Wroblewski
Keywords: outlier detection, resistant fences, data editing, economic data

Session 403: Adapting to Changes in the Privacy and Confidentiality Landscape
Organizer: Jay H. Casselberry, Energy Information Administration
Chair: Alvan O. Zarate, U.S. National Center for Health Statistics

Implementing the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 - Katherine K. Wallman and Brian A. Harris-Kojetin
Keywords: confidentiality, data access, data sharing

Incorporating HIPAA Privacy Rule into Medical Records Surveys - Catharine W. Burt
Keywords: National Health Care Survey, survey cooperation, HIPAA compliance

Federal Data Sharing Requirements and Issues: Contributions to be Made by Statistics, Survey Research, and Related Disciplines - Virginia de Wolf
Keywords: NIH, NSF, HIPAA, statistical disclosure limitation methods, accessing confidential data, data protection

How a U.S. Federal Statistical Agency Responded to CIPSEA - William Parks

Motivating Standards for Disclosure Avoidance - Philip M. Steel

Session 409: Missing Data and Models for Health Policy Decisions
Organizer:
Chair: Richard C. Gardiner, New York Association of Homes and Services for the Aging

Imputation of Financial Fields in Integrated Anonymous Patient-Level Databases - Evguenia Jilinskaia, Teri Condon Goodwin, Cathy Johnson, and Stanley Norton
Keywords: imputation, exponential predictive model, enrollment data, rate based analyses

Type of Health Insurance, Race and the Rate of Prostate Cancer - Negasi Beyene
Keywords: cancer, prostate, screening, private/public health insurance

Evaluating Factors of a Hot-deck Imputation Procedure in a Longitudinal Depression Treatment Study - Juned Siddique and Thomas R. Belin

Physiological Reactivity and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Diagnosis When Some Data are Missing - Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter, Phebe Tucker, Carol S. North, and Betty Pfefferbaum

Latent Classes within the Military: Who May Need "Zero Tolerance" Interventions? - Theresa J. Gromala

A Prospective Approach to Decision-making for Conducting Public Health Interventions - Thomas Wasser

A Comparison of Methods Used for Constructing Confidence Intervals for Cost-effectiveness Ratio - Ming-Yu Fan and Xiao-Hua A. Zhou

Session 411: New Technologies in Surveys
Organizer:
Chair: Sunghee Lee, University of Maryland

The Online Survey: Its Contributions and Potential Problems - Hisako Matsuo, Kevin P McIntyre, Terry Tomazic, and Barry Katz

The Net Effect: A Comparison of Internet and Mail Survey Respondents - Esther M. Friedman, Nancy A. Clusen, and Michael Hartzell
Keywords: web survey, internet, Health Care Survey of Department of Defense Beneficiaries

Data Collection Mode Effects Controlling for Sample Origins in an Internet Panel Survey - J. Michael Dennis and Cindy Chatt

Web, Mail, and Mixed-mode Data Collection in a Survey of Advanced Technology Program Applicants - Jeffrey Kerwin, Pat D. Brick, Kerry Levin, David Cantor, Jennifer O'Brien, Andrew Wang, Stephen Campbell, and Stephanie Shipp

Protocol for Converting Respondents form Touchtone to the Internet in the Current Employment Statistics Program - Richard Rosen, Louis Harrell, David Ballard, Ric Wise, and Tony Gomes

Computer Assisted Survey Data Collection for Geographic Features - Sarah Nusser

Session 412: Surveys of Special Population
Organizer:
Chair: Ting Yan, JPSM, University of Maryland/Abt Associates

Survey Errors and Survey Costs: Experience from Surveys of Arrestees - Y. Michael Yang
Keywords: sample allocation, error model, cost model

Sample Frame Deduplication in the World Trade Center Health Registry: Minimizing Overcoverage and Cost - Joe Murphy, Paul Pulliam, and Randolph Lucas
Keywords: deduplication, sample building, coverage

Sample Design for the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Survey - G. Hussain Choudhry, Mats Nyfjäll, and Marianne Winglee
Keywords: stratified sample design, optimum sample allocation, non-linear programming, systematic sampling, composite selection probabilities

A Three-stage Cluster-sampling Approach for Clinical Surveillance of Persons in Care for HIV Infection in the United States - Maxine M. Denniston, Mitchell L. Wolfe, Amy J. Drake, Patrick Sullivan, Sandra Berry, Sam Bozzette, Sally Morton, and Martin Frankel

Challenges in the Redesign of the Canadian Trucking Origin/Destination Survey - Francois Gagnon

Sample Design for Monitoring the Data Collection Process of Large-scale Natural Resource Surveys - Cristiano Ferraz, Jean Opsomer, and Sarah Nusser

Sampling Issues in Transportation - Promod Chandhok

Session 433: Telephone Surveys
Organizer:
Chair: E. Ann Dimler, U.S. Census Bureau

Bias from Excluding Households Without Telephones in Random Digit Dialing Surveys: Follow-up - Mourad Touzani and John Hall
Keywords: sample design, community tracking survey, bias estimate

Cellular Telephone Use Among Households with Absent of Intermittent Land-line Service - John W. Hall, Yuhong Zheng, and Mourad Touzani

Analysis of Nonresponse in Cross-sectional RDD Surveys - Randal ZuWallack, Leslyn Hall, and Ronaldo Iachan
Keywords: response propensity, auxiliary data, bias

Mode Effects in the Canadian Community Health Survey: A Comparison of CAPI and CATI - Martin St-Pierre and Yves Béland
Keywords: interview mode effects, CAPI, CATI

Interrupted Telephone Service Adjustment (ITSA) in RDD Telephone Surveys: An assessment using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) - Mansour Fahimi, Lily Trofimovich, Paul Levy, Henry Wells, Ali Mokdad, Lina Balluz, William Garvin, and Machell Town
Keywords: RDD, weighting, undercoverage, and variance inflation

Assessing Nonresponse Bias in Repeated Telephone Surveys - Randal ZuWallack, Ronaldo Iachan, and Leslyn Hall
Keywords: longitudinal survey, nonresponse, bias

Session 441: Fixing the Data: Post-survey Edit and Disclosure Control
Organizer:
Chair: Dan Gillman, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Implicit Linear Inequality Edits Generation and Error Localization in the SPEER Edit System - Maria M. Garcia

Using a Quadratic Programming Approach to Solve Simultaneous Ratio and Balance Edit Problems - Katherine J. Thompson, James T. Fagan, Brandy L. Yarbrough, and Donna L. Hambric
Keywords: non-linear program, constrained optimization

Effects of Rounding Continuous Data Using Specific Rules - Jay J. Kim, Lawrence H. Cox, Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr., and Myron J. Katzoff
Keywords: rounding, integer, variance, uniform distribution

Use of an Audit Program to Improve Confidentiality Protection of Tabular Data at the Bureau of Labor Statistics - Randall Powers and Stephen Cohen
Keywords: individually identifiable data, audit, confidentiality, tabular data

Limiting the Risk of Data Disclosure by Using Swapping Techniques in Variance Estimation - Sylvia Dohrmann, Leyla Mohadjer, Jill Montaquila, Randy Sitter, Wilson Lu, and Lester R. Curtin
Keywords: confidentiality, replication, Taylor Series linearization, area sample

Electronic Data Collection and Data-editing at Data Capture - Paula E. Weir

Evaluating Alternative Disclosure Limitation Strategies for Public Use Data Files: The California Health Interview Survey's Approach - M. Leeann Habte and Jenny Chia

Invited Posters

Graphical Display of Uncertainty and Related Tools for Inference in Small Domain Estimation - John L. Eltinge and Jaime Brugueras
Keywords: confidence sets, Current Employment Statistics (CES), false discovery rate, small area estimation, simultaneous inference, triple-goal estimation

Modeling Survey Nonresponse in Dichotomous Processes - Jacob J. Oleson and Chong He

Contributed Posters

The Institutional Review Board: Friend or Foe in a Graduate Student's Career - Terry Tomazic, Jennifer Cipfl, Will Haynes, Kevin McIntyre, Mark Morgan, Christine Ross, Melanie Shaafsma, Katrina Taylor, and Richard Wosman

Papers Presented at the 59th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research
May 11-16, 2004
Phoenix, AZ

Contact Histories: A Tool for Understanding Attrition in Panel Surveys - Nancy Bates
Keywords: contact histories, nonresponse, attrition, panel surveys

Tips and Tricks for Raking Survey Data (a.k.a. Sample Balancing) - Michael P. Battaglia, David Izrael, David C. Hoaglin, and Martin R. Frankel
Keywords: control totals, convergence, raking margins, weights

Comparison of Computerized Event History Calendar and Question-List Interviewing Methods: A Two-Year Hospitalization History Study - Mario Callegaro, Mandi Yu, Fei-Wen Cheng, Erik Hjermstad, Dan Liao, and Robert F. Belli
Keywords: Retrospective Reports, Standardized Interview, Hospitalization History, Validation Data, Computerized Event History Calendar

Temporal Patterns of Survey Response Rates and Reporting Rates in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Interview and Other Panel Surveys - Moon J. Cho, John L. Eltinge, and Barry P. Steinberg
Keywords: graphical methods, interviewer effect, quarterly interview effect, calendar effect, incomplete data, missing data

Effects of Gridout Procedures on Response Rates and Survey Quality - Stephanie Eckman, Colm O'Muircheartaigh, and Catherine Haggerty
Keywords: gridouts, response rate, RDD, telephone surveys

Behavior Coding Across Multiple Languages: The 2003 California Health Interview Survey as a Case Study - W. Sherman Edwards, Stephanie Fry, Elaine Zahnd, Nicole Lordi, Gordon Willis, and David Grant

Discovering Rare Urban Populations for Community Health Surveys: Area Probability versus GIS-Based Telephone Sampling Approaches - Ned English and Whitney Murphy

Testing a New Response Mode for an Establishment Survey: Reporting Response Rates in a Pilot Study of Touchtone Response - Karen L. Goldenberg
Keywords: touchtone data entry, AAPOR standard definitions, and response rate computation

Is Target Selecton by Last Birthday 'Random Enough'? A Split Ballot Test - Burke D. Grandjean, Martha Garcia Leighty, Patricia A. Taylor, and Ying Xu

In the Long Run: Lessons from a Panel Survey Respondent Incentive Experiment - Annette Jäckle and Peter Lynn

Validating Survey Data: Experiences Using Employer Records and Government Benefit (Transfer) Data in the UK - Annette Jäckle, Emanuela Sala, Stephen P. Jenkins, and Peter Lynn

Survey Letters: A Respondent's Perspective - Ashley Landreth
Keywords: survey letters, survey participation, American Community Survey, informed consent

Cognitive Testing of English and Spanish Versions of Health Survey Items - Roger Levine, Raquel González, Beverly Weidmer, and Patricia Gallagher

Call Efforts and Subject Matter Estimates: The Experience with a Health Related RDD Survey - Chung-Tung Jordan Lin

Exploiting Computer Automation to Improve the Interview Process and Increase Survey Cooperation - Jeffrey C. Moore
Keywords: burden, conversational norms, efficiency, flow, nonresponse/attrition, questionnaire design

Attitudes and Comprehension of Terms in Opinion Questions About Euthanasia - Maile O'Hara and Michael F. Schober
Keywords: attitudes, comprehension of terms, opinions, euthanasia, question wording

Validation of Socially Desirable Health Behaviors and Implications for Case-Control and Other Health Surveys: Does Salience Matter? - Diane O'Rourke, Timothy Johnson, Jane Burris, and Richard Warnecke

Coming Soon to a Mailbox Near You! The Effect of Pre-Census Publicity for the USDA's Census of Agriculture - Kathleen Ott and Jaki McCarthy

Cognitive Interviews in Languages Other Than English: Methodological and Research Issues - Yuling Pan

An Experiment to Identify Survey Mode Response Effects by Controlling Nonresponse Errors - M. Chris Paxson and John Tarnai

The Effect of Cover Letter Appeals and Visual Design on Response Rates in a Government Mail Survey - Cleo Redline, Julia Oliver, and Ron Fecso
Keywords: cover letter survey research, mail survey research, government surveys

House Effects in a Household Transportation Telephone Survey - J. Neil Russell and Jonaki Bose
Keywords: house effects, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, omnibus household survey

Nonresponse Bias in a Travel Survey of Nontelephone Households - J. Neil Russell, Jonaki Bose, and Lee H. Giesbrecht
Keywords: nontelephone households, nonresponse bias, mail survey, recontact

How Visual Grouping Influences Answers to Internet Surveys - Jolene D. Smyth, Don A. Dillman, Leah Melani Christian, and Michael J. Stern

Survey Mode Preferences of Business Respondents - John Tarnai and M. Chris Paxson

Designing Edits for Electronic Economic Surveys and Censuses: Issues and Guidelines - Amy E. Anderson, Elizabeth D. Murphy, Elizabeth M. Nichols, Richard S. Sigman, and Diane K. Willimack
Keywords: electronic reporting, establishment, usability testing, computerized self-administered questionnaires (CSAQs), data editing, electronic data collection

How Accurate are Proxy Reports: Results of a Verification Study - Chris Becker, Sergei Rodkin, Kathleen O'Connor, and Jeanne Moorman
Keywords: survey reporting error, proxy reports, RDD surveys, asthma

Using an Experiment to Design an RDD Survey - J. Michael Brick, Mary Collins Hagedorn, Jill Montaquila, Shelley Brock Roth, and Christopher Chapman
Keywords: monetary incentive, mailing conditions, nonresponse subsampling

Text 2 U: Contacting Wireless Subscribers Using Text Messaging for Mobile Phone Surveys - Trent D. Buskirk, Mario Callegaro, and Charlotte Steeh
Keywords: mobile phone surveys, text messaging, short text messaging (SMS), number portability, text-messaging panel, digital mobile phone, wireless web

Testing an Automated Refusal Avoidance Training Methodology - David Cantor, Bruce Allen, Sid Schneider, Tracey Hagerty-Heller, and Angela Yuan

Visual and Verbal Cues of Survey Respondents' Need for Clarification - Frederick G. Conrad, Michael F. Schober, Wil Dijkstra, and Frederick G. Conrad
Keywords: comprehension of survey questions, visual and verbal cues of comprehension problems, mode effects, face-to-face and telephone interviews, conversational interviewing, clarification

Training Elderly Respondents: Does It Help? - Patricia M. Gallagher, Floyd J. Fowler, Anthony Roman, and Alison Hauser

Understanding Nonresponse Mechanisms in Telephone Surveys - Timothy Johnson and Young Ik Cho
Keywords: nonresponse, telephone surveys, hierarchical modeling

Augmenting the BRFSS RDD Design with Mail and Web Modes: Results from a Multi-State Experiment - Michael W. Link, Ali Mokdad, Ruth Jiles, Jodie Weiner, and David Roe

A System for Detecting Interviewer Falsification - Joe Murphy, Rodney Baxter, Joe Eyerman, David Cunningham, and Joel Kennet

Medicaid and Medicare Reporting in Surveys: An Experiment on Order Effects and Program Definitions - Joanne Pascale

Refusal Conversion: Monitoring the Trends - Karen Foote Retzer, David Schipani, and Young Ik Cho

Household Types and Relationships in Six Race/Ethnic Groups: Conceptual and Methodological Issues - Laurie Schwede
Keywords: household types, relationship, race, survey methods, ethnography