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