Modeling the Difference in Interview Characteristics for Different Respondents - John Dixon Keywords: Survey, paradata, interviewer
An Evaluation of Nonresponse Bias Using Paradata from a Health Survey - Aaron Maitland, Carolina Casas-Cordero, Frauke Kreuter Keywords: nonresponse, paradata, call record
Subunit Nonresponse in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS): An Exploration Using Paradata - James M. Dahlhamer, Catherine M. Simile Keywords: Paradata, subunit nonresponse, response propensities, nonresponse bias
Use of Paradata to Manage a Field Data Collection - Robert Groves, William Axinn, James Lepkowski, Nicole Kirgis, William Mosher
Using the Fraction of Missing Information to Monitor the Quality of Survey Data - James Wagner
Use of Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute: Estimation of the Number of Deaths Associated with Body Weight - Barry I. Graubard, Katherine Flegal, David Williamson, Mitchell H. Gail
How Numbers Rule: Pitfalls and Practicalities from Health Policy - Joshua Wiener
Using Statistical Analyses to Inform Congressional Decisions - Nancy Kingsbury
A Modeler's Perspective on Survey Weights - Roderick J.A. Little
Accounting for Complex Sample Designs via Mixture Models - Michael Elliott
Power-Shrinkage: An Alternative Method for Dealing with Excessive Weights - Xiao-Li Meng, Naihua Duan, Chih-nan Chen, Margarita Alegria
Rethinking Privacy and Disclosure Limitation from a Cryptographic Perspective - Cynthia Dwork
Rethinking the Risk-Utility Tradeoff Approach to Statistical Disclosure Limitation - Stephen Fienberg
Rethinking Official Statistical Disclosure Limitation Procedures from a Cryptographic Privacy Perspective - John M. Abowd
Inferences from Matched Samples in the U.S. National Elections from 2004 to 2008 - Douglas Rivers, Delia Bailey Keywords: sampling, matching, propensity score, surveys
Election Polling Challenges: Cell Phones, the Bradley Effect, and Voter Turnout - Scott Keeter
Methodological Issues in ABC News 2008 Pre-Election Polling - Jennifer Agiesta, Gary Langer, Jon Cohen
Limitations of Recorded-Voice Telephone Polling in Election 2008: Is This Method of Data Collection Doomed in 2012? - Jay H. Level
Taking the Hard Work Out of Privacy: Interactive Data Analysis with End-to-End Privacy Guarantees for All - Frank McSherry
Integrating Differential Privacy with Statistical Theory - Adam D. Smith
Differentially Private Categorical Data Analysis - Aleksandra B. Slavkovic, Ivan Simeonov, Duy Vu
Valid Statistical Analysis for Logistic Regression with Multiple Sources - Robert Hall, Stephen Fienberg, Yuval Nardi, Aleksandra B. Slavkovic
Cross-Validation in Survey Estimation: Model Selection and Variance Estimation - Jean Opsomer
Bayesian Benchmarking with Applications to Small Area Estimation - Gauri S. Datta, Malay Ghosh, Rebecca Steorts, Jerry J. Maples
A Bayesian Adjustment for a Selection Bias in Genetics - Balgobin Nandram
New Developments in Model-Based Small Area Estimation - Danny Pfeffermann
Small Area Estimation for Population Counts in the German Census 2011 - Ralf Munnich, Jan Pablo Burgard, Martin Vogt Keywords: Census, small area estimation, binomial mixed-models, spatial modeling, census design
Model and Variable Selection in Hierarchical Small Area Models - Michael D. Larsen, Lu Lu
Small Area Estimation Under Fay-Herriot Models with Nonparametric Estimation of Error Variances - Domingo Morales, Wenceslao González-Manteiga, Isabel Molina, MarÃa J. LombardÃa, Laureano SantamarÃa
Extended Small Area Models for Analysis of Nonlinear Effects and Extremes - Snigdhansu Chatterjee
Small Area Estimation of the Prevalence of Cancer Risk Factors and Screening via Bayesian Methods Using Combined Information from Two Surveys - William Davis, Eric Feuer, Van L. Parsons, Trivellore E. Raghunathan, Nathaniel Schenker, Dawei Xie
The Role of Meta-Analysis in Assessing Adverse Drug Effects - Joel B. Greenhouse
Bayesian Shrinkage Models for Associations Involving Sparse Data - William DuMouchel
Some Generalizations of the Horvitz-Thompson Estimator - James R. Chromy Keywords: PPS sampling, PPS sequential sampling, PPS systematic sampling, variance approximation
Imputation and Estimation Under NMAR Nonresponse with Limited Covariate Information, Revisited - Danny Pfefferman, Anna Sikov Keywords: Bootstrap, Calibration, Horvitz-Thompson estimator, Multiple imputation, Nonrespondents distribution, Respondents distribution
Dan Horvitz: His Life and Work as a Statistician - Judith Lessler
Horvitz-Thompson Estimation and Unit Nonresponse - William Kalsbeek, Robert Agans, Abigail Panter
Use of Income Tax Data of Individuals for Demographic Purposes - Sonia Demers
Register Data Are a Good Backbone but Sometimes Restricted for Policymakers: Experiences from Finland Over Decades - Pekka Myrskyla, Seppo Laaksonen
Measuring Coverage in the 2010 U.S. Census - Patrick J. Cantwell, Magdalena Ramos, Donna Kostanich Keywords: Measuring Coverage in the 2010 U.S. Census
Evaluating the 2010 Census - Jennifer W. Reichert
An Integrated Approach to Communications - Kendall Johnson, Tasha Boone
An Overview of Progress on the 2010 Census - Arnold A. Jackson
Robust Small Area Estimation Using Penalized Spline Mixed Models - J. N. K. Rao, S. K. Sinha, M. Roknossadati Keywords: Bootstrap, mean squared prediction error, outliers, random effects, small area mean, unit level model
Fence Method for Prediction Problems and Its Application in Small Area Estimation - Jiming Jiang, Thuan Nguyen, J. Sunil Rao
Borrowing Strength Over Space in Small Area Estimation: Comparing Local and Spline-Based M-Quantile Models with Spatial Autoregressive Random Effects Models - Nikos Tzavidis
Design-Based Model Consistent Estimator for the Nested-Error Regression - Tapabrata Maiti, Lixia Diao, Jean Opsomer
Nonparametric Regression and the Two Sample Problem - Alan H. Dorfman Keywords: inclusion probabilities, post-stratification, model-based, model-assisted, bandwidth choice, twicing
Nonparametric Regression Estimators in Survey Sampling - Sharon Lohr, Guillermo Mendez
Penalized Balanced Sampling: Nonparametric Guidance for Survey Design - Jay Breidt, Guillaume Chauvet
Using the National Health Interview Survey to Monitor Health Insurance and Access to Care - Robin A. Cohen Keywords: Health insurance, Access to care, Consumer-directed health care, National Health Interview Survey
Health care access data for children and adolescents from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs and the National Survey of Children's Health - Rosa Avila Keywords: Access to care, Children, Children with Special Health Care Needs, National Survey of Children's Health, National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs
Access to Care and Objective Measures of Health: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) - Vicki L. Burt, Lester R. Curtin, Clifford Johnson, Cindy Zhang
Using the National Health Care Surveys to Monitor Use and Access to Health Care - Nancy Sonnenfeld, Sandra L. Decker
Bayesian Multiscale Multiple Imputation with Implications to Data Confidentiality - Scott Holan, Daniell Toth, Marco A.R. Ferreira, Alan F. Karr
Summary of Methods and Preliminary Assessment of the SIPP Synthetic Beta, Version 5.0 - Gary Benedetto, Martha Stinson, Melissa Bjelland
Responsible Data Releases - Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Ofer Harel, Michael Zuba, Gregory Matthews, Rob Aseltine
Examining the Robustness of Fully Synthetic Data Techniques for Data with Binary Variables - Gregory Matthews, Ofer Harel, Rob Aseltine
Statistical Consulting Within the Internal Revenue Service - Ronald Walsh, Rachael Hooker Keywords: Statistical Consulting, Customer Interaction, Problem Solving
A Fresh Approach to Agricultural Statistics: Data Mining and Remote Sensing - Darcy Miller, Jaki McCarthy, Audra Zakzeski Keywords: Data Mining, Remote Sensing, Cropland Data Layer, Estimation, Weighting
OnTheMap: An Innovative Mapping Tool - Matthew Graham, Heath Hayward
Recent Developments in Internet Data Collection Methods Used at EIA - Grace E. ONeill
Correlates of Data Quality in the Consumer Expenditure Quarterly Interview Survey - Jennifer Edgar, Jeffrey M. Gonzalez Keywords: Data quality, data processing, imputation, measurement error, paradata, processing error
Comparison of Web-Based versus Paper-and-Pencil Administration of the YRBS: Participation, Data Quality, and Perceived Privacy and Confidentiality by Mode of Data Collection - Maxine M. Denniston, Nancy D. Brener, Laura Kann, Danice K. Eaton, Tim McManus, Tonja M. Kyle, Alice M. Roberts, Katherine H. Flint, James G. Ross
Mode Effects and Data Quality on a Survey of New Businesses - David DesRoches
Extended Bootstrap Bias Corrections with Application to Multilevel Modeling of Survey Data Under Informative Sampling - Solange Corrêa Keywords: Bias correction, Bootstrap, Sample distribution, Probability weighting
Adaptive Hierarchical Bayes Estimation of Small-Area Proportions - Benmei Liu Keywords: Proportions, random effects, Exponential Power distribution
Using Multivariate Spatial Statistics in the Modeling of Rate-Based Diffusion Processes: An Extension and Replication of Cohen and Tita - Jeremy R. Porter
The Prior Selection and Approximations for the Nested Error Regression Model: Estimation of Finite Population Mean for Small Areas - Santanu Pramanik
The Generalized ANOVA: A Classic Song Sung with Modern Lyrics - Hui Zhang, Hua He, Qin Yu, Rui Chen, Naiji Lu, Xin M. Tu
Evaluation of PPS Sampling for the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Steven R. Machlin, William Yu, Robert M. Baskin Keywords: MEPS, complex multi-stage sampling, PPS sampling, effective sample size
Evaluation of Design Effects for Selected Estimates in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - David Kashihara, Marc Zodet, Trena M. Ezzati-Rice Keywords: survey efficiency, subgroup over-sampling, sample redesign
Assessment and Evaluation of Nonresponse Error in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Lap-Ming Wun, Trena M. Ezzati-Rice, David Kashihara Keywords: nonresponse, bias, covariates, auxiliary variables, association
Event Reporting in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) by Type - Frederick Rohde Keywords: survey quality, response accuracy, panel survey, simulation
Comparison of Imputation Adjustment Techniques on Variance Estimation in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) - Robert M. Baskin, Robert E. Fay Keywords: Fractionally weighted imputation, variance estimation, Rao-Shao adjustment, survey data
Model-based Approach to Small Area Estimation of Disability counts and rates using Data from the 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation Survey - Valérie Bizier, Yong You, Lucie Veilleux, Chantal Grondin Keywords: Small area estimation, Disability counts and rates, Log linear unmatched model, Gibbs sampling method
Some Methods of Model-Based Sampling - Sung-Joon Hong, So-Hyung Park, Sun-Woong Kim, Hong-Yup Ahn, Steven G. Heeringa Keywords: regression superpopulation model, average variance, optimization, design variance, stability of variance estimator, maximum likelihood, restricted maximum likelihood
Ratio Estimation of the Mean with Unequal Probability Samples: Hansen, Madow, and Tepping Revisited - Fotios Kokkotos, Roderick J.A. Little
Modified Ratio Estimators in Simple Random Sampling - Evrim Oral, Cem Kadilar
An Introduction to Pre-sampling Inference - Stephen Woodruff
Redesign of SOI's Individual Income Tax Return Edited Panel Sample - Yan K. Liu, Gerald Auten, Valerie Testa, Michael Strudler Keywords: Cross-sectional estimation, longitudinal analysis, panel sample, sample size allocation, stratified sample
Analysis of the Distributions of Income, Taxes, and Horizontal and Vertical Equity Using Cross-Section and Panel Data from Individual Tax Returns - Michael Strudler, Thomas Petska, Ryan Petska Keywords: Income distribution, income and tax shares, tax burden, Gini coefficient
Getting to Know US Taxpayers: Selected Tax Data by Occupation and Industry, Tax Years 2003--2005 - Terry Nuriddin, Mary Jezek, Mario Fernandez Keywords: Tax Return, Occupation, Industry
Using Sample Data to Reduce Nonsampling Error in State-Level Estimates Produced from Tax Records - Kimberly Henry, Partha Lahiri, and Jana Scali Keywords: Survey sampling, Administrative Records, Indirect Estimators
Can Taxpayer Characteristics Determine the Possibility of Filing Future Tax Returns? - Victoria Bryant
Socioeconomic Differences in Life Expectancy - Kimberly Lochner, Van L. Parsons, Nathaniel Schenker, Gloria Wheatcroft, Elsie R. Pamuk
Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Build Imputational Models to Adjust Survey Estimates of Medicaid Coverage - Michael Davern, Jacob A. Klerman, Jeanette K. Ziegenfuss
Are Expenditures Higher for Those Entering Medicare at Age 65 Having Been Previously Uninsured? - Sandra L. Decker, Jalpa A. Doshi, Amy E. Knaup, Daniel E. Polsky
One More Step: NHIS-Linked Mortality Data Combined with EPA Air Quality Data - Jennifer D. Parker, Nataliya Kravets, Kimberly Lochner, Tracey Woodruff
Speeding Up the Asymptotics When Constructing One-Sided Coverage Intervals for Survey-Weighted Estimates - Phillip S. Kott, Yan K. Liu Keywords: Audit data, randomization-based, skewness, stratified sample design, Wald interval
Estimation Using Gaussian Replicates of the Pivotal Based on Weighted Quasi-Score Vector - A.C. Singh, C.J.J. Nadeau Keywords: Taylor Variance Estimate; Wald Interval Estimate; Estimating Function Based MCMC
Empirical Likelihood--Based Calibration Methods for Missing Data Problems - Jing Qin
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the American Community Survey Family Equalization Project - Mark E. Asiala Keywords: raking, iterative proportional fitting, weighting
Using Subcounty Estimates as Controls in Weighting for the American Community Survey - Keith A. Albright Keywords: weighting, population controls, raking
Usability of the American Community Survey Estimates of the Group Quarters Population for Substate Geographies - Michael Beaghen, Sharon Stern Keywords: sample design, estimation, ACS, GQ
Assessment of Data Release Rules on the Reliability of Multi-Year Estimates in American Community Survey Data Products - Michael D. Starsinic Keywords: American Community Survey, Estimate reliability, Filtering
Options for Allocating the American Community Survey Sample - Don Keathley, Steven P. Hefter
Response Improvement Strategies for the 2007 Economic Census - Shirin A. Ahmed, Ruth E. Detlefsen Keywords: Economic Census, response rates, Performance Assessment Rating Tool (PART)
Improving Response Rates for the 2007 Census of Government Employment - Kerstin Edwards, Kenneth Long, Jr., Carma Hogue, Grace O'Neill Keywords: Response rates, survey methods, establishment surveys, non-response
Strategies to Improve Response Rates for Current Economic Programs - Robert J. Reinard, John P. Miller Keywords: Response, Current Industrial Reports, Annual Wholesale Trade Survey
Improving the utility of 3-year ACS data: A Transportation Perspective - Elaine Murakami, Ed Christopher Keywords: 3-year ACS, Transportation Planning Data, Census Data Utility
Evaluating the Age Dimension at the PUMA Level in the Three-Year Estimates from the American Community Survey - Joseph J. Salvo, Arun Peter Lobo, Adam L. Willett, Joel A. Alvarez Keywords: ACS population controls, age/sex distribution, sub-county controls
The Quality of ACS Estimates for Small Population Groups - Alfredo Navarro, Michael D. Starsinic
Using Survey Data to Investigate Changes Over Time in Health Indicators - Donna J. Brogan
Weighting Methods for Population-Based Case-Control Study with Complex Sampling - Yan Li, Barry I. Graubard, Ralph DiGaetano
Using Projection Splines to Explore Racial Differences in Gestational Age Distribution Among Very Low-Risk Women - Nedra Whitehead, Jun Liu, Lei Li, Jason Hsia
Log-Linear Modeling of Health Services Use in a Sample Survey - John S. Preisser, Thomas A. Arcury
A Model-Based Method for Estimating Serious Mental Illness Using Household Interview Data Combined with Clinical Interviews - Lisa Colpe, Jeremy Aldworth
What Is 'Misuse' of Prescription Drugs, and How Do We Measure It? - James Colliver
Searching for a Gold Standard: Comparisons of NSDUH Data with External Sources to Assess Coverage and Validity - Jonaki Bose, Joe Gfroerer, Deborah Trunzo
Evaluating the reliability of NSDUH data on drug use, mental health and demographics - Joel Kennet, Joe Gfroerer
A National Evaluation of Coverage for a Sampling Frame Based on the Master Address File (MAF) - Clifford L. Loudermilk, Mei Li Keywords: Master Address File; coverage; sampling frame
Content and Coverage Quality of a Commercial Address List as a National Sampling Frame for Household Surveys - Timothy L. Kennel, Mei Li Keywords: Residential Mailing Address List, Gross Coverage, USPS, Listing, Sampling Frame, Area Probability Sampling
Examining Blocks With Lister Error in Area Listing - Aliza Kwiat Keywords: Area listing, error
Impact of MAF-Based Frame Coverage on Survey Estimates - Xijian Liu Liu Keywords: Coverage Errors, Master Address File, Current Population Survey
Federal Policy on Collecting and Using Social Security Numbers for Statistical Purposes - Rochelle (Shelly) W. Martinez, John Barkhamer
The Effect on Linkage Rates and Mortality Ascertainment of Partial SSN Matching to the National Death Index - Christine S. Cox, Kimberly Lochner, Stephanie Bartee, Donna Miller, Gloria Wheatcroft
Tracing Survey Respondents Without SSNs - Marilyn Seastrom
Simultaneous Calibration and Nonresponse Adjustment - Eric V. Slud, Yves Thibaudeau Keywords: consistency, inclusion probabilities, Lagrange multipliers, linearized variance, objective function, population controls, weight adjustment
Bayesian Inference of Finite Population Distribution Functions and Quantiles from Unequal Probability Samples - Qixuan Chen, Michael Elliott, Roderick J.A. Little
Estimating Variance Components Using Random Forest - Guillermo Mendez, Sharon Lohr
An Adaptive Method for Collapsing Strata Using Regression Trees on Data from a Complex Design - Daniell Toth, John L. Eltinge
Collinearity Diagnostics for Complex Survey Data - Dan Liao
Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis of Incomplete Data Using Pattern-Mixture and Selection Models Through Equivalent Parameterization - Niko Kaciroti, Trivellore E. Raghunathan Keywords: Bayesian parameterization, Missing not at random, Mixture analysis, Ignorability index, Selection bias, Identifiability
Extensions of Proxy Pattern-Mixture Analysis for Survey Nonresponse - Rebecca R. Andridge, Roderick J.A. Little Keywords: Nonignorable nonresponse, Nonresponse bias, Missing data, Survey data, Bayesian methods
A semi-parametric approach to fractional imputation for nonignorable missing data - Jae Kwang Kim, Cindy Long Yu Keywords: Follow up, Not missing at random, Survey Sampling.
Semiparametric Estimation for Longitudinal Data with Nonignorable Nonmonotone Missing Responses - Jun Shao, Deyuan Jiang
Recruiting Probability-Based Web Panel Members Using an Address-Based Sample Frame: Results from a Pilot Study Conducted by Knowledge Networks - Charles DiSogra, Mario Callegaro, Erlina Hendarwan Keywords: Address-based sample, KnowledgePanel, mixed-mode response
Coverage Rates and Coverage Bias in Housing Unit Frames - Ned English, Colm O'Muircheartaigh, Katie Dekker, Michael Latterner, and Stephanie Eckman Keywords: Address-based samples, delivery sequence file, National Childrenâs Study
Methodological Issues in the Conversion from RDD to Address-Based Sampling - Michael Link, Gail Daily, Charles Shuttles
Address-Based Sampling and the 2008 American National Election Survey: A New Paradigm for In-Person Household Surveys - Jamie L. Ridenhour, Vincent G. Iannacchione, Bonnie Shook-Sa, Joseph P. McMichael
Using Address Frames to Identify Cell-Phone-Only and Cell-Phone-Primary Households - Anna Fleeman
Application of the Truncated Distributions and Copulas in Masking Data - Rahul A. Parsa, Jay J. Kim, Myron Katzoff Keywords: truncated triangular distribution, truncated uniform distribution, masking, confidentiality
An Overview of Uncertainty Creation to Protect Statistical Data - Paul B. Massell Keywords: disclosure avoidance, confidentiality, microdata, noise distributions, uncertainty intervals
Informing Potential Respondents About Disclosure Risk and Survey Participation - Eleanor Singer, Mick P. Couper, Frederick G. Conrad, Robert Groves
Data Access for the National Children's Study: Preliminary Plans - Jennifer Park
Disclosure Review Issues of Genetic Data - Karen E. Davis, Peter Meyer
Statistical Estimation for Persons with Disabilities as Measured in the Current Population Survey - Stephen M. Miller
Labor Force Analysis of Those Identified as Disabled in the CPS - Anne E. Polivka
An Evaluation of Efforts to Use a Work Disability Question to Evaluate the Labor Force Situation of Persons with a Disability - Terence M. McMenamin
The Addition of Questions on Disability to the Current Population Survey - Steven F. Hipple
Assessing the Effect of Calibration on Nonresponse Bias in the 2006 ARMS Phase III Sample Using Census 2002 Data - Morgan Earp, Jaki McCarthy, Nick Schauer, Phillip Kott Keywords: Nonresponse, response rate, bias, calibration weights
Assessing Nonresponse Bias in the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey - Susan L. King, Boriana Chopova, Jennifer Edgar, Jerey M. Gonzalez, Dave E. McGrath, Lucilla Tan Keywords: Continuum of resistance, intermittent respondent, missing data, panel survey, proxy nonrespondent
Conducting Nonresponse Bias Analyses for Two Business Surveys at the U.S. Census Bureau: Methods and (Some) Results - Katherine J. Thompson Keywords: Nonresponse bias analysis, business surveys
Components of Error Analysis in the Current Employment Statistics Survey - Larry Huff, Julie Gershunskaya Keywords: nonresponse bias, error decomposition, response rate
An Overview of Coverage Adjustment for the 2007 Census of Agriculture - Matthew J. Fetter Keywords: Weight calibration, census, coverage error, regression estimator
Overview of the 2007 Census of Agriculture Methodology - Dave Aune, Chris Messer
Searching for Donors: Refining an Imputation Strategy - Michael Hogye, Peter Quan Keywords: imputation, donor, donor pool, editing
2007 Census of Agriculture Non-Response Methodology - Will Cecere Keywords: census of agriculture, non-response adjustment, classification trees
Impact of Outreach Initiatives on the 2007 Census of Agriculture - William Iwig Keywords: census of agriculture, census outreach, small farms, American Indian agriculture, minority farm operators, census response rates, census coverage
Studying Millions of Rescued Documents: Sample Plan at the Guatemalan National Police Archive - Daniel Guzman, Tamy Guberek, Gary Shapiro, Paul Zador Keywords: probability sampling, complex sample design, sampling frame, cluster sampling, human rights violations, Guatemalan National Police Archive
Weighting for the Guatemalan National Police Archive Sample: Unusual Challenges and Problems - Gary Shapiro, Daniel Guzman, Paul Zador, Tamy Guberek, Megan Price, Kristian Lum Keywords: probability sampling, weights, post-stratification, weight trimming, Guatemalan National Police Archive, human rights
A Statistical Analysis of the Guatemalan National Police Archive: Searching for Documentation of Human Rights Abuses - Megan Price, Tamy Guberek, Daniel Guzman, Paul Zador, Gary Shapiro Keywords: multi-stage sampling, complex sample design, human rights violations, Guatemalan National Police Archive
Partial Synthesis of the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Database - Simon Woodcock and Gary Benedetto
The Synthetic Public-Use Release of the Longitudinal Business Database - Satkartar Kinney, Jerome Reiter, Ron Jarmin, Arnold Reznek, Javier Miranda, John M. Abowd
Generating Multiply Imputed Synthetic Data Sets for a German Establishment Survey: The Agency's Perspective - Joerg Drechsler
Improving the Usefulness of Synthetic Data: Some Recent Advances - Jerome Reiter
Improvement of Data Quality Assurance in the EIA Weekly Gasoline Prices Survey - Bin Zhang, Paula Mason, Amerine Woodyard, and Benita O'Colmain Keywords: edit, validation
An Improved Imputation Methodology Derived Through Regression Trees - Pedro J. Saavedra, Paula Mason, Benita O'Colmain, Jeffrey Foarde Keywords: Petroleum, CART, trend adjustments, exponential smoothing
The Changing Petroleum Marketing Industry as Viewed Through an Attribute Frame - Amerine Woodyard, Paula Mason
Improving the Edits in Petroleum Supply Surveys - Jason D. Marley, Paula Mason, Julie Harris
Estimated-Control Poststratified Variance Estimators for Proportions - Jill A. Dever, Richard Valliant Keywords: poststratification, sampling frame coverage bias, survey-estimated control totals, simulation
Efficacy of Poststratification in Complex Sample D - Ismael Flores Cervantes, J. Michael Brick Keywords: calibration, stratification, poststratification
Variance Estimation in Complex Surveys with One PSU per Stratum - Harold Mantel, Suzelle Giroux Keywords: surveys, variance estimation, one PSU per stratum, stratum collapsing
An Investigation of Stratified Jackknife Estimators Using Simulated Establishment Data Under an Unequal Probability Sample Design - Philip Steel, Victoria McNerney, John Slanta Keywords: jackknife, Tille, Pareto, fpc, unequal probability sampling
Identification of Functional Forms and Predictor Variables in Generalized Variance Functions for Price Indices - MoonJung Cho, John L. Eltinge Keywords: Degrees of freedom, Design-based inference, International Price Program, Superpopulation model, Variance function model
Developing Guidelines Based on CVs for when One-Year Estimates Can Be Used Instead of Three-Year Estimates in the American Community Survey - Michael Ikeda Keywords: American Community Survey, One-Year Estimates, Three-Year Estimates, Guidelines
Evaluating the Asymptotic Limits of the Delete-a-group Jackknife for Model Analyses - Phillip S. Kott, Steven T. Garren Keywords: Calibrated weight, domain, ignorable, linearization variance estimator, model parameter, relative empirical bias
Response Analysis Survey: Examining reasons for employment differences between the QCEW and the CES survey - Kristin Fairman, Margaret Applebaum, Chris Manning, Polly Phipps Keywords: measurement error, survey and administrative data, employment, response analysis survey, data quality
Application of Piecewise Quadratic Density Estimator to OES Wage Data - Teresa E. Hesley, Martha Duff Keywords: Wage Intervals, Density Estimator, Occupational Employment Statistics
Getting to the Top: Reaching Wealthy Respondents in the SCF - Arthur B. Kennickell Keywords: Survey field operations, nonresponse bias, paradata, administrative records
The Effect of Late-Filed Returns on Population Estimates: A Comparative Analysis - Brian Raub, Cynthia Belmonte, Paul Arnsberger, Melissa Ludlum Keywords: non-response bias, post-stratification, Bernoulli, population estimates
An Analysis of e-Commerce and American Consumers - Ephraim Okoro, Mohammad Quasem
An Investigation on Response Rate for Best Survey Estimates of Inflation Expectations - Turknur Hamsici
Toward Quantifying Disclosure Risk for Area-Level Tables When Public Microdata Exists - Tom Krenzke, David Hubble Keywords: Data matching, confidentiality
Measures of Data Utility for Complex Survey Data - Kyu-Seong Kim Keywords: Original and protected data, survey weighted, weighted empirical CDF
Investigation of Variance Properties of Noise-Infused Estimates for the Survey of Business Owners (SBO) - Irene Brown, Marilyn Balogh, Anthony Caruso, Beth Schlein, Katherine J. Thompson Keywords: variance estimation, disclosure avoidance, noise-infusion, random group variance estimator
Data and Metadata from the Terminological Perspective - Daniel W. Gillman, Frank Farance Keywords: Concept, computational model, datatype, datum, semantics, terminology, ontology
General Discrete-data Modeling Methods for Producing Synthetic Data with Reduced Re-identification Risk that Preserve Analytic Properties - William E. Winkler
GeoFrameTM: A Technological Advancement in Field Enumeration (Part 2) - Joseph P. McMichael, Brian Evans, Leslie Athey
Sample Design for the Census 2010 Experimental Program - Michael Bentley Keywords: Census 2010, Experiment, Sample Design, Questionnaire
Coverage of the 2011 Canadian Census of Agriculture - David MacNeil Keywords: Census of Agriculture, Coverage, Register, Non-response follow-up
"You Really Have to Puzzle This Out": Checking Residence and Coverage Duplications on a Census 2010 Questionnaire - Laurie Schwede, Anissa Sorokin, Virginia Wake Yelei Keywords: Census 2010, Census 2010 Alternative Questionnaire Experiment, Census Coverage, Census Duplication, Census Overcount Question, Erroneous Enumerations
Overview of Evaluations of the 2010 Census Coverage Measurement Program - Mary H. Mulry, Tamara S. Adams Keywords: census omissions, census erroneous enumerations, net census coverage, 2010 Census Program of Evaluations and Experiments
Missing Data Methods for the CCM Component Error Estimation - Vincent Thomas Mule, Donald Malec, Lynn Imel, Nganha Nguyen, Michael Moldoff Keywords: Census, Coverage Measurement
Is There an Undercount of Medicaid Participants in the ACS Field Test? - Brett O'Hara
Research on Quarterly Benchmarking forthe Current Employment Statistics Survey - Victoria Battista, Chris Manning, Kenneth W. Robertson Keywords: Current Employment Statistics, benchmark, wedge, quality, employment, estimation, establishment survey
Using Current Employment Statistics survey data to estimate employment in expanding and contracting establishments: preliminary results and issues - Kenneth W. Robertson, Mike Roosma Keywords: establishment survey, business employment dynamics
Numbers as pictures: Examples of data visualization from the Business Employment Dynamics program - Charles M. Carson Keywords: data visualization, graphs, graphics, charts, Business Employment Dynamics, Bureau of Labor Statistics, animation, sparklines, Tufte, Google docs, Trendalyzer
Size Class Dynamics: Small and Large Firms in the 2008 Recession - Jessica Gayle Helfand Keywords: Size Class, dynamic sizing, recession, recovery, small business, small firms
Improving the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey's Sampling Procedure - Sarah Goodale, Darrell Greene Keywords: panel sample, post stratification, re-weight, birth sample, birth establishment
The Impact of High Variances at the Lowest Aggregate Levels on the CPI's All-US-All-Items Variance - Owen J. Shoemaker Keywords: Stratified Random Groups
Dynamics of Business Growth - Carol Leming
A Simulation Study of Alternative Weighting Class Adjustments for Nonresponse when Estimating a Population Mean from Complex Sample Survey Data - Brady T. West Keywords: Complex Sample Survey Data, Unit Nonresponse, Nonresponse Weighting Adjustments, Missing Data
An Evaluation of Weighting Methodology in an RDD Survey with Multiple Population Controls - Kennon R. Copeland, Meena Khare, N. Ganesh, Zhen Zhao, Abera Wouhib Keywords: ratio adjustment, noncoverage bias, variance
Evaluation of Randomization-Based Estimation and Inference Methods for Survey Data Subject to Nonresponse, Callbacks and Mode Effects - Randall Powers, John L. Eltinge Keywords: Design optimization, Fixed nonresponse, Gold standard, Main-effects model, Responsive design, Subsampling
An Empirical Study of Nonresponse Adjustment Methods for the Survey of Doctorate Recipients - Fan Zhang, Stephen Cohen, Donsig Jang, Amang Sukasih, Sonya Vartivarian Keywords: Survey of Doctorate Recipients, nonresponse adjustment, covariate weighting class, propensity weighting class, inverse propensity score
A Simulation Study to Compare Weighting Methods for Nonresponses in the National Survey of Recent College Graduates - Amang Sukasih, Donsig Jang, Sonya Vartivarian, Stephen Cohen, Fan Zhang Keywords: survey, nonresponse, weight adjustment, weighting cell, propensity model
Overview of Software that Will Produce Sample Weight Adjustments - Michael B. Witt Keywords: Weights, Weighting Software, Weight Adjustments, Post-stratification, Nonresponse
Design and Weighting Issues for the Dual-Frame Household Panel Survey 'Labor Market and Social Security' - Hans Kiesl
Analyses Based on Combining Similar Information from Multiple Surveys - Georgia Roberts, David Binder Keywords: Pooling, target population, design-based analysis, model-designbased framework
Performance of Sequential Imputation Method in Multilevel Applications - Enxu Zhao, Recai M. Yucel Keywords: missing-data, multiple imputation, sequential imputation, hierarchical models, random-effects, clustered data
The Practice of Imputation Methods with Structural Equation Models - Cherie J. Alf, Michael D. Larsen, Frederick O. Lorenz Keywords: Missing data, full information maximum likelihood, multiple imputation, longitudinal survey
Imputation of Gaps in Transaction Sequences - Robin Lee, Michael P. Cohen, Fritz Scheuren Keywords: data gap, hot-deck, multiple imputation, Bayesian Bootstrap
Imputation of categorical variables using Gaussian-based routines - Recai M. Yucel, Yulei He, Alan M. Zaslavsky Keywords: Nominal data imputation, missing data, multiple imputation, missing data software, rounding
Posterior predictive checking of imputation models - Yulei He, Alan M. Zaslavsky
Imputation of Income, Poverty, and Medicaid Status in the Ohio Family Health Survey - Ronaldo Iachan, Bo Lu, Thomas Duffy
Assessing Nonresponse Bias in the International Price Program's (IPP) Import and Export Price Index Surveys - Jenny FitzGerald Keywords: Nonresponse Bias, Logistic Regression, Generalized Linear Mixed Model with Random Intercept, Nonresponse Adjusted Sampling Weights, Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test
Effects of Imputation on CPS Income and Poverty Series: 1981 - 2007 - Joan Turek, Fritz Scheuren, Brian Sinclair-James1 Bula Ghose, Sameer Desale Keywords: imputation, income, poverty, Current Population Survey, methodology
Modeling Nonresponse and Underreporting in Response in Surveys of Arrestees - Zhiwei Zhang Keywords: arrestee, bias, crime, nonresponse, survey, underreporting
Analysis of Nonresponse Bias in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project - Barbara Lepidus Carlson Keywords: Nonresponse, Bias, Attrition, Early Head Start
Effect on Oral Health Estimates of Response Disparities: Results from the Survey of Oral Health Status, Maryland School Children 2005-2006 - Haiyan Chen, Richard J Manski, Ronald R Chenette Keywords: survey response, oral health
Computing Response Rates for Probability-Based Web Panels - Charles DiSogra, Mario Callegaro Keywords: Probability-based web panel, mixed-mode, response metrics, cumulative response rate
Effect of Survey Modes on Sampling Design, Coverage, and Nonresponse in Surveys of Veteran and Military Populations - Boris Rachev
Nonparametric Estimation of Non-Response Distribution in the Israeli Social Survey - Yury Gubman, Dmitri Romanov Keywords: survey non-response, item non-response, MAR assumption, sharp bounds
The Rao, Hartley and Cochran Scheme with Dubious Random Non-Response in Survey Sampling - MarÃa del Mar Rueda, Antonio Arcos, Raghunath Arnab, Sarjinder Singh Keywords: Rao, Hartley and Cochran's scheme, Estimation of population total, Random non-response
Propensity Score Methodology for Nonignorable Nonresponse - Leigh Ann H. Starcevich, Virginia Lesser
Responsive Design for Random Digit Dial Surveys Using Auxiliary Survey Process Data and Contextual Data - Sunghee Lee
Propensity Score Matching to Correct Telephone Surveys for Cell Phone Nonresponse - John Bremer
Simulation Studies of a Latent-Class Selection Model for Nonignorable Missing Data - Hyekyung Jung, Joseph L. Schafer, Byungtae Seo
Are We Adjusting Response Rates or Survey Variables? The Effects of Multiple Auxiliary Variables on Nonresponse Adjustment - Frauke Kreuter, Kristen Olson
A Simulation Study of the Distribution of Fay's Successive Difference Replication Variance Estimator - Elizabeth T. Huang, William R. Bell Keywords: survey variance, degrees of freedom, chi-squared distribution, sample size
Modeling County-Level Vaccination Coverage Rates Across Time - N. Ganesh, Philip J. Smith, Kennon R. Copeland, Kirk M. Wolter Keywords: EBLUP, NIS, Small Area Estimation
Small Area Variance Modeling with Application to County Poverty Estimates from the American Community Survey - Jerry J. Maples, William R. Bell, Elizabeth T. Huang Keywords: Generalized Variance Functions, small area estimation
A Small Area Procedure For Estimating Population Counts - Emily Berg, Wayne A. Fuller Keywords: Small Area Estimation, Benchmarking, Generalized Linear Structural Model
Using Predictive Marginals to Produce Standardized Estimates - Michael B. Witt, Kathryn E. Spagnola Keywords: Standardization, Predictive Marginals, Military Data, Survey Analysis
Coverage Bias and Sampling Error in a Study Using 1000-Series RDD Sampling - John Hall, Karen Cybulski, Nancy Duda
Effects of Misclassification of Race/Ethnicity Categories in Sampling Stratification on Survey Estimates - Donsig Jang, Amang Sukasih, Xiaojing Lin, Kelly H. Kang, Stephen H. Cohen Keywords: effective sample size, NSRCG, raking
Estimating Response Bias & Response Variance (Simple & Correlated) from Reinterviews - Dhirendra N. Ghosh Keywords: Gross discrepancy rate, Index of inconsistancy (IOI)
Using Statistical Models for Sample Design of a Reinterview Program - Jianzhu Li, J. Michael Brick, Bac Tran, Phyllis Singer Keywords: quality control, falsification, curb stone, rare event
Identifying Outliers When Creating an Imputation Base for the Quarterly Financial Report - Melvin McCullough, Terry L Pennington Keywords: imputation, outlier
Identifying Sources of Survey Errors: the 2007 Classification Error Survey for the United States Census of Agriculture - Denise A Abreu, Jaki S. McCarthy Keywords: Reporting Errors, Classification Errors, Reinterviews, Record Linkage
Measurement Error Models for Physical Activity Measures - Nicholas K. Beyler, Sarah Nusser, Alicia L. Carriquiry, Gregory Welk, Wayne Fuller
Effects from Respondent Location on Telephone Survey Estimates - Courtney Kennedy, Stephen E. Everett, Michael W. Traugott
Survey Mode Effects in Two Military Surveys - Y. Michael Yang, Amy E. Falcone, Lynn M. Milan Keywords: Mode Effects, Web Survey, Survey Mode
The Franklin's Randomized Response Model for Two Sensitive Attributes - Cheng C. Chen, Sarjinder Singh Keywords: Franklin's randomized response model, Estimation of proportion, Sensitive attributes, Higher order moments
Response Mode and Bias Analysis in the IRS' Individual Taxpayer Burden Survey - J. Michael Brick, George Contos, Karen Masken, Roy Nord Keywords: mode, web, nonresponse bias
Mean and Sensitivity Estimation in Optional Randomized Response Models - Sat N. Gupta, Javid Shabbir, Supriti Sehra
Data Collection Mode Effects: Empirical Comparisons Between CATI-Only vs. Mixed Mode in the 2003 National Survey of Recent College Graduates - Zhanyun Zhao, Donsig Jang, Kelly H. Kang
Sample Surveys with Sensitive Questions: A Nonrandomized Response Approach - Guo-Liang Tian, Ming T. Tan, Man-Lai Tang
Looking for a Needle in a Haystack: A Multi-Mode Approach to a Survey of Rare Subpopulations - Mansour Fahimi, Barbara L. Kroner, Anne E. Kenyon, David J. Thurman
Using Addresses as Sampling Units in the 2007 Health Information National Trends Survey - Greg Norman, Richard Sigman Keywords: HINTS, Delivery Sequence File, mail survey
Indirect Sampling in Context of Multiple Frames - Manuela Maia, Pierre Lavallée Keywords: Indirect Sampling, Generalized Weight Share Method, Multiple Frame Surveys
A Comparative Evaluation of Traditional Listing vs. Address-Based Sampling Frames: Matching with Field Investigation of Discrepancies - Jill M. Montaquila, Valerie Hsu, J. Michael Brick, Ned English, Colm O'Muircheartaigh Keywords: Delivery Sequence File, coverage
Cross-community Comparison and Multi-frame Weighting in REACH U.S. - Peter K. Kwok, Hee-Choon Shin, Whitney Murphy, Colm O'Muircheartaigh, Angela Debelloz, Kari Carris Keywords: REACH U.S., Address-based sampling, Community-based health program, Multiframe weighting, Pseudo-maximum likelihood, Multiplicity
Operational Results from an Address-Based Sampling Pilot for the National Immunization Survey - Benjamin Skalland, Martin Barron, Karen Wooten
The Use of Address-Based Sampling (ABS) with Multi-Mode Data Collection: The Case of REACH (Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health) US Risk Factor Survey - Kanru Xia, Katie Dekker, Colm O'Muircheartaigh, Youlian Liao
Link-Tracing Sampling: Estimating the Size of a Hidden Population in Presence of Heterogeneous Nomination Probabilities - Martin H. Felix-Medina, Pedro E. Monjardin, Aida N. Aceves-Castro Keywords: chain-referral sampling, design-based estimator, maximum likelihood estimator, profile likelihood confidence interval, snowball sampling, Wald confidence interval
Adjusting Sampling and Weighting to Account for Births and Deaths - Lawrence R. Ernst, Randall K. Powers, Andy Sadler, Dave Slack Keywords: Sampling frame, continuing units, modified frame, probability proportional to size sampling
Sample Design and Estimation of Volumes and Trends in the Use of Paper Checks and Electronic Payment Methods in the United States - May X. Liu, Geoffrey R. Gerdes, Darrel W. Parke Keywords: Ratio estimator, auxiliary variables, item nonresponse, imputation, sample design
PPS Network Sampling with Partial PSU Replacement - Monroe G. Sirken Keywords: finite population corrections, psu size measures, sampling small populations
Longitudinal Surveys versus Continuous Surveys and Surveys with Flexible Periodicity - Dhiren Ghosh, Andrew Vogt Keywords: dynamic sampling, small samples, indices
An Application of Two-Way Stratification Procedure for Selection Under Three-Way Stratification - Kadaba P. Srinath
A Russian Invasion, Skeptical Villagers, and Controversial Elections: The 'Power' Plays Faced by Randomized Impact Evaluations in Developing Countries - Celeste Tarricone
A Study of the Composite Estimator for Change Rate - Dong-Yun Shin, Heungsun Park Keywords: panel data, overlapped samples, relative-error
A Simulation Study of Treatments of Influential Values in the Monthly Retail Trade Survey - Mary H. Mulry, Broderick Oliver Keywords: M-estimation, Clarke Winsorization, outliers
An Estimation Procedure for the New Public Employment Survey Design - Yang Cheng, Casey Corcoran, Joe Barth, Carma Hogue Keywords: survey design, model-based estimator, regression, stratification, and optimum allocation
Multiple Imputation for Missing Items in Multi-Section Questionnaires - Rong Liu, Joseph L. Schafer
A Bayesian Approach to Predicting the Electoral Vote Totals for the 2008 Presidential Election - Steven E. Rigdon, Sheldon H. Jacobson, Edward C. Sewell, Wendy K.T. Cho, Christopher J. Rigdon
Election Day 2008 Voter Scorecard - Kate Hobson, Edward Mulrow, Hee-Choon Shin, Fritz Scheuren
Methods for Analysis of Recall of Fires in a Retrospective Survey - Michael A. Greene, Craig D. Andres
Developing Macro Edits for the Census and Annual Survey of Governments Finance - Loretta A. McKenzie, Terri L. Craig, Jennifer N. Whitaker Keywords: Macro edits, Hidiroglou-Berthelot Edit
Empirical Evaluation of Imputation Methods on Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) Data - Marek W. Kaminski, Vinod Kapani Keywords: Employment imputation, wages imputation, simulation of missing data, ratio method, nearest neighbor method, percent relative error, influential observations
Imputation Variance Estimation by Multiple Imputation Method for the National Hospital Discharge Survey - Qiyuan Pan, Iris Shimizu Keywords: Health care survey, hot-deck imputation, complex sample survey
Evaluation of Alternative Imputation Methods for the Public Libraries Survey (PLS) - Irene Brown, Terri L Craig Keywords: Imputation, Cell boundaries
A Three-Phase Model of Census Capture - Douglas Olson Keywords: Census coverage measurement, logistic regression modeling
The Impact of Allocations as a Tool for Statistical Editing of Corporate Taxpayer Administrative Records - Marty Harris Keywords: Allocations, Data Editing, Corporate Tax Returns
Do Products Offering Expedited Refunds Increase Income Tax Non-Compliance? - Karen Masken, Mark Mazur, Joanne Meikle, Roy Nord
Assessing the Effects of Imputation on Income Estimates in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey: Comparison with the Current Population Survey - William D. Passero
Trends in Early Childhood Vaccination Coverage: Progress Toward U.S. Healthy People 2010 Goals - Zhen Zhao, Philip J. Smith, Elizabeth T. Luman
A Random Pattern Mixture Model for Longitudinal Binary Outcome with Informative Dropouts - Chengcheng Liu, Wensheng Guo, Sarah Ratcliffe
Outfluence: The Impact of Missing Values - Ofer Harel
Multiple Imputation for Drop-Out in Longitudinal Studies - Xiaodong Li, Jingchen Liu, Naihua Duan, Huiping Jiang, Jeffrey Lieberman, Ragy Girgis
Multiple Imputation in Right-Truncated Multivariate Normal Distribution, with Applications to RT-PCR - Abhijit Dasgupta, Terry Hysolp, Scott Waldman
Robust Variable and Model Selection with Missing Data - Greg DiRienzo
Achieving the Unique Objectives of the Canadian Health Measures Survey - Sarah Maude Dion, Suzelle Giroux
Sample Redesign of Canadian Local Government Surveys - James Ahkong, Martin Renaud Keywords: Lavallée-Hidiroglou algorithm, take-all stratum, take-some stratum, PPS sampling, municipalities
Reducing the Public Employment Survey Sample Size - Joseph James Barth, Yang Cheng, Carma R. Hogue Keywords: Sample design, establishment surveys, probability proportional to size
National Sample Reallocation for the Occupational Employment Statistics Survey - David Piccone, Marie C. Stetser Keywords: Establishment survey, sample, Occupational Employment Statistics, power allocation
Progress on the Redesign of the Quarterly Tax Survey - Amy Couzens, Carma Hogue, Paul Villena Keywords: Questionnaire Design, Survey Improvements, Imputation, Editing
Exploring Statistical Issues of Annual Sampling for the Current Population Survey - Reid Rottach, Antoinette Lubich, Benjamin M. Reist Keywords: dynamic sampling, second-stage sample selection, 2010 Sample Redesign
Evaluation of Methods for Increasing Precision in DAWN: Stratification and Ratio Estimation - Peter Frechtel
Disclosure Limitation Techniques for Tabular Data - Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr. Keywords: confidentiality, SDL, avoidance techniques
Why is Survey Research 20 Years Behind? - Robert E. Fay Keywords: cognitive psychology, cognitive interviewing, behavioral science, epistemic rationality, Acquired Soft Science Aversion Disorder
Pretesting 2010 Census Questionnaires for People with Atypical Living Situations - Jennifer Hunter Childs, Dawn Norris, Nathan Jurgenson
Are Do Not Include Statements Helpful? - Monica Dashen Keywords: Questionnaire Design or Survey Methods
Visualization of Complex Survey Data: Regression Diagnostics - Susan Hinkins, Edward Mulrow, Fritz Scheuren Keywords: Complex survey design, inverse sampling, regression diagnostic plots
Variability in Life-Table Estimates Based on the National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality Files - Van Parsons, Nathaniel Schenker, Kimberly Lochner, Gloria Wheatcroft, Elsie Pamuk Keywords: Balanced Repeated Replication, Variance Estimation
Model-based Methods in Analyzing Complex Survey Data: A Case Study with National Health Interview Survey Data - Rong Wei, Van Parsons Keywords: general linear mixed models, multilevel modeling, design-based
Estimating the Variance of Between-Year Change in Domain-Level Totals - Kimberly Henry, Valerie Testa, Richard Valliant Keywords: Horvitz-Thompson estimator, stratified Bernoulli sampling, poststratification, Taylor series approximation
Characteristic Function for the Truncated Triangular Distribution - Jay J. Kim, Myron Katzoff, Rahul A. Parsa Keywords: masking, multiplicative noise, moment
Alphabetical Placement in Surveys of Persons at Institutions - A Simulation Study - Pedro J. Saavedra, Francine Barrington Keywords: Alphabetic Sampling, Bias, Simple Random Sampling, Simulation
Reproducing Nonresponse Adjustments in Replicate Weights - Pedro J. Saavedra, R. Lee Harding Keywords: Jackknife, Propensity Categories, Variance Estimation, Weight Adjustments
Towards a Uni ed Framework for Inference with Aggregated Relational Data - Tyler H. McCormick, Tian Zheng Keywords: Aggregated relational data, Latent space models, Social networks
Missing Data and Complex Samples: The Impact of Listwise Deletion vs. Subpopulation Analysis on Statistical Bias and Hypothesis Test Results when Data are MCAR and MAR - Bethany A. Bell, Jeffrey D. Kromrey, John M. Ferron Keywords: survey research, complex samples, missing data, variance estimation
Sampling Weights for Analyses of Couple Data in Demographic and Health Surveys - Stan Becker, Bryan Sayer Keywords: survey methodology, demographic surveys, data analysis
Issues Associated with Measuring Activities Associated with Seeing and Hearing Across National Surveys - Frances M. Chevarley, David W. Keer, Barbara M. Altman Keywords: MEPS, NHIS, MCBS, disability, activity limitations, seeing, hearing, blind, deaf, NHDR
Confidence Intervals for Radio Ratings Estimators - Richard Griffiths Keywords: Confidence Intervals, Wald, Clopper-Pearson, Wilson Score, Coverage Probability, Radio Ratings, Empirical Study
A Comparison Study of Exit Poll Methodologies between Taiwan and the U.S. - Ge Tang, Yeh-Diing Wang, Rene Bautista Keywords: Exit poll, comparison study, Taiwan
A Meta-analysis of Within-Household Respondent Selection Methods - Ting Yan Keywords: within-household respondent selection methods, meta-analysis, demographic representativeness, cooperation rates
Analyses for Partnerships Based on the Census Barriers, Attitudes, and Motivator Survey - Mary H. Mulry, Timothy P. Olson Keywords: 2010 Census, Integrated Communications Program, social marketing, word-of-mouth campaign, CBAMS
Applying Incentives to Establishment Surveys: A Review of the Literature - Sarah Cook, Patricia LeBaron, Laura Flicker, Timothy S. Flanigan Keywords: Establishment, incentive, response rate
Are Polls Becoming Equal? - Dan Cassino, Krista Jenkins, Peter J. Woolley Keywords: IVR technology, RDD, partisan polls, standards, survey accuracy, CATI polls
Asians - are they the same? Findings from cognitive interviews with Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese Americans - Hyunjoo Park, Virginia Wake Yelei Keywords: cognitive interview, American Community Survey, translation, multilingual and cultural issues
Assessment of Potential Bias in the National Immunization Survey (NIS) Estimates using Data on Telephone Status from the 2007 NHIS - Meena Khare, Abera Wouhib, James A. Singleton Keywords: Weighting, propensity score models, RDD telephone survey
Blue and Red Counties in the 2008 Presidential Election: An Analysis of Intracluster Correlation - Bonnie E. Shook-Sa, Vincent G. Iannacchione Keywords: Political Polarization, Cluster Analysis, 2008 American National Election Time Series Study
Building A New Foundation: Transitioning to Address Based Sampling After Nearly 30 Years of RDD - Michael W. Link, Gail Daily, Charles D. Shuttles, Tracie L. Yancey, H. Christine Bourquin Keywords: Address Based Sampling, random digit dialing, multimode survey
Cell Phone Reverse Directories - Promise or Peril? - Sarah Dipko, Krista Freedman Keywords: Cell phones, reverse directories, advance notification, sample purging
Cognitive testing as a method of pre-testing questionnaires in high and low context cultures - Hyunjoo Park, M. Mandy Sha, Yuling Pan Keywords: Cognitive interview, Cultural differences, Korean
Combating Telephone Fatigue After Multiple Waves: Testing Prepaid Incentives and a Hard-Copy Questionnaire in a Telephone Survey of Youth With Disabilities and Their Parents - Anne Kenyon, Lynn Newman, Suzanne Triplett, Anne-Marie Knokey, Kathryn Valdes, Helen Smith Keywords: Telephone, survey, longitudinal, nonresponse
Comparing an Internet Panel Survey to Mail and Phone Surveys on Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: A National Mode Test - Burke D. Grandjean, Nanette M. Nelson, Patricia A. Taylor Keywords: Internet panel survey, contingent valuation, willingness to pay, air pollution, ozone, national park
Consistency Analysis and Panel Blending - Steven H. Gittelman
Conveying Translated Informed Consent Concepts: Effects of Language and Culture on Interpretation of Legally Required Messages - Yuling Pan, Ashley Landreth Keywords: informed consent messages, survey participation, translation, language and culture
Current Practices in Cognitive Interviewing - Johnny Blair, Pat Dean Brick Keywords: Cognitive interviewing, best practices, probing methods, think aloud
Do We Hear Different Voices?: Investigating the Differences Between Internet and non-Internet Users On Attitudes and Behaviors - Chan Zhang, Mario Callegaro, Melanie Thomas, Charles DiSogra Keywords: digital divide, non-internet households, probability-based online panel, KnowledgePanel
Does Prefilling Responses on a Longitudinal Establishment Survey Stem Sample Attrition? - Geraldine M. Mooney, Melissa Krakowiecki, Deborah Trunzo Keywords: Sample attrition, longitudinal surveys, establishment surveys
Effects of Differential Branding on Survey Materials - Nicole Bensky, Gretchen Grabowski, Justin Bailey, Chuck Shuttles, Michael Link Keywords: mail materials, design
Expanding the Use and Applicability of Cognitive Interviews in Research - Gretchen Grabowski, Justin Bailey, Nicole Bensky, Michael Link Keywords: Cognitive interviewing techniques, interview style, probing, mail materials, incentives
Hanging by a Thread: the Telephone Interviewers Tell (Their) Story - Gabriella Fazzi, Fabrizio Martire, Maria C. Pitrone Keywords: Interviewing, interviewers, survey research - telephone
Health Status Measurement via Event History Calendars vs. Conventional Questionnaires: "Long Time, No Status Change" - Debra R. Miller, Clarissa R. Steele, Ipek Bilgen, Robert F. Belli Keywords: event history calendar, standardized conventional questionnaire, verbal behavior coding
How Does the French Culture Impact the Translation of Survey Materials? - An Examination of French Translations for a U.S. Survey - Erica Saleska, Dr. Musindu Kanya-Ngambi, Herman A. Alvarado Keywords: French, translations, cognitive interviews
Improving the Utility of Imputed Values in Survey Datasets - David R. Johnson, Rebekah Young
Internet Usage Research: Comparing Household Expectations and Concerns - Yvonne Olivares, Susan Baylis, Rosemary Holden Keywords: Internet research, trust, expectations, participation
Interviewer Characteristics, their Doorstep Behaviour, and Survey Co-operation - Jennifer Sinibaldi, Annette Jäckle, Sarah Tipping, Peter Lynn Keywords: interviewers, personality, response propensity
Language, Culture, and Respondent Knowledge: Findings from the Cognitive Test of the Spanish Translation of the American Housing Survey - George R. Carter III, Alisú Schoua-Glusberg, M. Mandy Sha Keywords: translation, cognitive interviewing, respondent knowledge, housing, mortgages, income
Life360: Usability of Mobile Devices for Time Use Surveys - Jennie W. Lai, Lorelle Vanno, Michael W. Link, Jennie Pearson, Hala Makowska, Karen Benezra, and Mark Green Keywords: smartphone, digital ethnography, mobile survey, Internet survey
Messaging to America: Results from the Census Barriers, Attitudes and Motivators Survey (CBAMS) - Nancy Bates, Frederica Conrey, Randy Zuwallack, Darlene Billia, Vita Harris, Linda Jacobsen, Tanya White Keywords: Decennial Census, audience segmentation, campaign messaging
Mode Choice in a Longitudinal Mail, Web, and Telephone Survey - Martha D. Kovac, Barbara Rogers, Geraldine M. Mooney, Deborah Trunzo
Modeling the Need for Traditional vs. Commercially-Available Address Listings for In-Person Surveys: Results from a National Validation of Addresses - Colm O'Muircheartaigh, Ned English, Michael Latterner, Stephanie Eckman, Katie Dekker Keywords: Delivery Sequence File, Address-Based Sampling, General Social Survey
Monitoring Field Interviewer and Respondent Interactions Using Computer-Assisted Recorded Interviewing: A Case Study - Susan Mitchell, Kristine Fahrney, Matthew Strobl Keywords: Computer audio-recorded interviewing, CARI, interviewer behavior coding
Multimode Strategies for Designing Establishment Surveys - Shelton M. Jones Keywords: Response rates, mode choice, mode preference, survey design
Multi-Mode Surveys Using Address-Based Sampling: The Design of the REACH U.S. Risk Factor Survey - Martin Barron Keywords: REACH U.S., Address-Based Sampling, Multimode Surveys
Obtaining Responses by Mail or Web: Response Rates and Data Consequences - Glenn D. Israel Keywords: Response rate, Internet, mode effects, Extension, satisfaction
Panel Conditioning and Attrition in the AP-Yahoo! News Election Panel Study - Yelena Kruse, Mario Callegaro, J. Michael Dennis, Charles DiSogra, Stefan Subias, Michael Lawrence, Trevor Tompson Keywords: election, Internet panel, KnowledgePanel, attrition, conditioning
Personal Contact and Performance Base Incentives - Two Approaches to Raise Long-term Panel Compliance and Reduce Missing Data - Ana P. Melgar, Matt Walker, Jeff M. Scagnelli, Michael W. Link Keywords: Long term panel compliance/cooperation, incentives
Presentation of a Single Item versus a Grid: Effects on the Vitality and Mental Health Scales of the SF-36v2 Health Survey - Mario Callegaro, Jeffrey Shand-Lubbers, J. Michael Dennis Keywords: grid, matrix, single item per screen, Cronbach's alpha, SF36v2, KnowledgePanel
Refined or Biased Opinions? Examining Self-selected Participation in Deliberation and Post-survey in On-line Deliberative Polls - Rui Wang, Alice Siu Keywords: Nonresponse, panel attrition, Deliberative Polls, on-line survey
Relationship between Portrayals of VA Hospitals in the Media, and Employee and Patient Satisfaction: An Exploratory Analysis - Katerine Osatuke, Jonathan Fishman, Scott C. Moore, Sue R. Dyrenforth Keywords: Public perception, media, healthcare, VA hospitals
Respondent Effects Associated with Questionnaires Designed to Accommodate Survey Processing - Deborah H. Griffin, Sandra L. Clark Keywords: Data Collection, Data Processing, Quality
Spanish Respondent's Choice of Language of Survey Materials: Bilingual or English Only? - Norman Trussell, Michael Link, Justin Bailey, Lorelle Vanno Keywords: Bilingual Materials, Choice of language, audience measurement, media behavior
The challenges of locating young adults for a longitudinal study: Improved tracing strategies implemented for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Wave IV - Amanda Meehan, Erica Saleska, Marjorie Hinsdale-Shouse, Nick Kinsey, Casey Tischner Keywords: Locating, Longitudinal, Tracing
The Effect of Email Invitation Customization on Survey Completion Rates in an Internet Panel: A Meta-analysis of 10 Public Affairs Surveys - Mario Callegaro, Yelena Kruse, Melanie Thomas, Poom Nukulkij Keywords: Internet panel, email invitation, email subject, completion rate
The Effect of Interview Experience on Follow-Up Response Propensity in a Longitudinal Survey - Matt Sloan, Debra Wright Keywords: Disability, Longitudinal Survey, Response Propensity
The Effects of Incentives on the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey - Karen L. Goldenberg, David McGrath, Lucilla Tan Keywords: Incentives; longitudinal survey; panel design
The Language and Behaviour Profile as a Nonresponse Tool - Dr. Pamela C. Campanelli, David C. Klaasen Keywords: Doorstep Introductions, Interviewers, Reducing Nonresponse
The Use of Cognitive Interviewing to Explore the Effectiveness of Advance Supplemental Materials among Five Language Groups - Anna Y. Chan, Yuling Pan
The Use of Vignettes in Evaluating Multilingual Questionnaires1 - M. Mandy Sha, Yuling Pan Keywords: Translation, cognitive interviewing, vignettes, language and culture, multilingual questionnaires, cross-cultural survey methods
To Link or Not to Link?: Exploring Approaches to Maintaining American Community Survey Response Rates During Census 2010 - Laurie Schwede, Anissa Sorokin Keywords: American Community Survey, Response Rates, Color on Envelopes, Census 2010
Undercoverage Analysis in Surveys Using Telephone Exchange Information - Ting Yan, Wei Zeng, Zhen Zhao Keywords: undercoverage, NIS, telephone-exchange information
Using Contact Attempt History Data to Determine the Optimal Number of Contact Attempts - Adam Safir, Lucilla Tan Keywords: Contact history, data quality, field operations, level of effort, and paradata
Using Respondent Prediction Models to Improve Efficiency of Incentive Allocation - Morgan S. Earp, Jaki S. McCarthy Keywords: Nonresponse, response rate, bias, incentives
Using Verbal and Paralinguistic Behaviors to Explain Variation in Responses to Self-Reported Health Questions - Dana Garbarski, Nora Cate Schaeffer, Jennifer Dykema Keywords: self-reported health, interaction coding, interviewer-respondent interaction, cognitive ability, health, response latency, uncertainty, speech tokens, disfluencies of speech, paradigmatic question-answer sequence
Vignettes in Cross-Cultural Cognitive Testing: Adaptation for Spanish-Speaking Respondents of Lower Educational Levels - Patricia Goerman, Matthew Clifton Keywords: Vignettes, Bilingual cognitive testing methodology, Spanish survey research
Web of Caring: Development of Web Survey Best Practices - Janice Ballou, Brian Roff Keywords: Web survey, paradata, survey methodology
When a Face Doesn't Launch a Thousand Ships: Including a Personalized Image on a Mail Questionnaire - Kathy Sonnenfeld, Raquel af Ursin, Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Susan Sprachman Keywords: Image, incentive, gift card, response rate, verification questionnaire, bilingual
When easy doesn't do it: An attempt to simplify a mailed diary survey - Justin T. Bailey, Gretchen Grabowski, Michael W. Link Keywords: response rates, respondent burden, mail surveys
Who are You?: A Data Mining Approach to Predicting Survey Non-respondents - Jaki S. McCarthy, Thomas Jacob Keywords: Agricultural Survey, Classification Tree, Establishment Survey, Non-response, Paradata