Proceedings of the Survey Research
Methods Section, American Statistical Association (2011)
Invited
Papers
Session 51: Is New Emphasis on
Administrative Data a Supplement to Survey Research or a 'Paradigm
Shift'?
Organizer(s): Young Chun,
U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): Daniel
Weinberg, U.S. Census Bureau
Cleaning and Using
Administrative Lists: Enhanced Practices and
Computational Algorithms for Record Linkage and
Modeling/Editing/Imputation - William
Erwin Winkler
Keywords:
quality, merging, computational algorithms
To understand the Possibilities
of Administrative Data you must change
your Statistical Paradigm! - Anders
Wallgren
Keywords:
Administrative data, Register system, Record linkage, Register-based
census, Register-based National Accounts
Pandata Systems to Enhance Survey and Census Systems: Employing
Administrative Data to Better Inform Public Policy - Young Chun, Fritz Scheuren
Keywords:
Administrative data, public policy, paradigm, Register-based census,
paradata, pandata
Some Applications of Administrative Data in Health, Plus a Glimpse of
the Future - Edward J.
Sondik
Keywords:
Federal, surveys, administrative, data, health, harmonization
Session 103: Recent Research on
Total Survey Error
Organizer(s): Paul P.
Biemer, RTI International
Chair(s): Clyde Tucker,
Retired
How Much of Interviewer Variance Is Really Nonresponse Error Variance?
- Brady Thomas West,
Kristen Olson
Keywords:
Interviewer Variance, Nonresponse Error, Measurement Error, Total
Survey Error, Interviewer Effects, CATI
Nonresponse and Measurement Error: Relationship, Relative Magnitude,
and Correction - Andy
Peytchev
Keywords:
Nonresponse Bias, Measurement Error, Multiple Imputation, MSE, Total
Survey Error, Paradata
Challenges in Minimizing Nonsampling Errors in an International
Assessment of Adult Competencies - Leyla
K. Mohadjer
Keywords:
Nonsampling errors, international surveys, standards and guidelines,
quality control
Repercussions of Nonresponse Follow-Up for Measurement Error - Frauke Kreuter
Keywords:
Session 379: Latest Developments
on Analysis of Missing Data
Organizer(s): Baojiang
Chen, University of Nebraska
Chair(s): Baojiang Chen,
University of Nebraska
A Functional Method for Longitudinal Data with Missing Responses and
Covariate Measurement Error - Grace
Y. Yi, Yanyuan Ma, Raymond James Carroll
Keywords:
Functional measurement error modeling, Generalized method of moments,
Inverse probability weighting, Longitudinal data, Missing response
Generating Multiple Imputations from Multiple Models to Incorporate
Model Uncertainty in Nonignorable Missing Data Problems - Ofer Harel, Juned Siddique
Keywords:
multiple imputation, misssing data, nonignorable models, model
uncertainty
Empirical Likelihood-Based Method Using Calibration for Longitudinal
Data with Drop-Out - Xiao-Hua
"Andrew" Zhou, Baojiang Chen
Keywords:
missing-data, calibration, empirical likelihood, longitudinal data
Bayesian Modeling and Inference for Data with Informative Treatment
Switching or Dropout - Ming-Hui
Chen, Qingxia Chen, David Ohlssen, Joseph G. Ibrahim
Keywords:
Intermittent missingness, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Missing at random,
Multivariate logistic regression, Multivariate mixed-effects model,
Non-ignorable
Session 383: Using Paradata for
Field Management, Quality Assurance, and Statistical Control
Organizer(s): Matt Jans,
U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): Jim Dahlhamer,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Proposed Indicators to Assess
Interviewer Performance in CATI Surveys -
Francois Laflamme
Keywords:
paradata, productivity, call center, call scheduler
Comparing CAPI Trace File Data
and Quality Control Reinterview Data as
Methods of Maintaining Data Quality - Matt Jans, Robyn Sirkis,
Christina Schultheis, Renee M. Gindi, Jim Dahlhamer
Keywords:
paradata, CAPI, data quality, interviewers, NHIS, Census Bureau
Using Statistical Process
Control to Understand Variation in
Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing Data - Robyn Sirkis, Matt Jans, Jim
Dahlhamer, Renee M. Gindi, Benjamin Duffey
Keywords:
Paradata, Statistical Process Control, NHIS
An Attempt to Reduce Survey Costs via Logistic Regression and Paradata
- Frost A. Hubbard,
James R. Wagner
Keywords:
Paradata, Health and Retirement Study, Responsive Design, Institute for
Social Research
Analyzing Interviewer Call Record Data Using a Multilevel Multinomial
Modeling Approach to Understand the Process Leading to Cooperation or
Refusal - Julia
D'Arrigo, Gabriele B. Durrant, Fiona Steele
Keywords:
paradata, interviewer call data, multilevel multinomial logistic
regression
Session 490: Surveys, Bayesian
Modeling, and the Interconnections: A Session in Honor of Joseph
Sedransk
Organizer(s): Guofen Yan,
University of Virginia
Chair(s): Jiayang Sun,
Case Western Reserve University
Estimation of Finite Population Domain Means: Then and Now - Jiming Jiang, Thuan Nguyen
Keywords:
Asymptotics, Mean Square Prediction Error, Model Misspecification,
Nested-Error Regression, Robustness, Small Area Estimation
Calibrated Bayes Inference for Sample Surveys - Rod Little
Keywords:
Calibrated Bayes, survey sampling, design based inference
Bayesian Predictive Inference for Small Areas with Uncertain Unit-Level
Models - Donald Malec,
Ryan Janicki
Keywords:
Bayesian Predictive Inference for a Proportion with Nonresponse - Balgobin Nandram
Keywords:
Gibbs sampler, Log-linear, Multinomial-Dirichlet, Patterns of
missingness, Sensitivity analysis
Session 592: Multiple Designs for
Census Data Collection and Surveys
Organizer(s): Linda
Hewitt, International Association of Survey Statisticians
Chair(s): Jil Matheson,
UK Statistics Authority
The United States Experience: Streamlining the Decennial Census and
Meeting Data User Needs - Deborah
Harner Griffin
Keywords:
Census, data users, American Community Survey
The First Fully Register-Based Census in Sweden - Ingegerd Jansson, Boris Lorenc,
Dan Hedlin, Anders Holmberg
Keywords:
register-based statistics, census
A Review of Caribbean Population and Housing Census Experiences Using
the Long and Short Forms - Linda
Hewitt, Godfrey St. Bernard
Keywords:
Census enumeration, Long form, Short form, Design-based estimation,
Efficiency, Caribbean
Enhancing the Value of Census Data Through Data Integration - Frank Yu, Ros Watmuff, Gemma Van
Halderen, Graeme Thompson, Jeffrey Wright
Keywords:
Census, Data linkage, Datasets, longitudial
Topic Contributed Papers
Session 17: Address-Based
Sampling: A Frame Discussion
Organizer(s): Ashley
Amaya, NORC at the The University of Chicago
Chair(s): Ashley Amaya,
NORC at the The University of Chicago
Comparing the Coverage of
Alternative Address Frames for the 2009
Residential Energy Consumption Survey - Rachel Harter, Katie
Dekker, Anna Wiencrot, Ned English, Jizhou
Fu, Mary Hess, Hina Shah, Bradley Parsell
Keywords:
sampling frames, address-based sampling, area probability studies
Choices of Frame Construction
on the National Children's Study: Impacts
on Address Quality and Survey Results - Ned English, Colm
O'Muircheartaigh, Katie Dekker
Keywords:
address-based samples, area probability, National Children's Study,
listing, frame construction
A Comparison of Data Collected Using Address-Based Sampling to Those
from Alternate Sampling Techniques in the National Children's Study - Katie Dekker, Ned
English, Colm O'Muircheartaigh, Martin Barron
Keywords:
address based sampling, frame construction
Best Practices for Matching Address-Based Samples to Telephone Numbers
- Ashley
Amaya, Ben Skalland, Becky Ruthenburg, Karen Wooten
Keywords:
address-based sampling, National Immunization Survey, telephone
interviewing, address to telephone matching, match accuracy
Session 65: Address-Based
Sampling: A Discussion on Operations and Data Collection
Organizer(s): Ashley
Amaya, NORC at the The University of Chicago
Chair(s): Michael Davern,
NORC at the The University of Chicago
Use of Paradata to Assess the Performance of a Multi-Mode ABS Study - Ting Yan, Rupa
Datta, Kirk M. Wolter, Hee-Choon Shin
Keywords:
address based sampling, multi-mode design, paradata
Multi-Mode Address-Based Sampling and Mode Effects in REACH U.S. - Kanru Xia, Lee Fiorio,
Whitney Murphy, Karri Carris
Keywords:
address-based sampling, multi-mode, coverage, bias, mode effects
Address-Based Sampling with a Field Component for the CICPE 2010 - Steven Pedlow
Keywords:
Census Integrated Communication Program Evaluation, address based
sampling
Cost Efficiency: Which Design Is Cheapest? - Ashley Amaya
Keywords:
variable cost, sample designs
Issues in Weighting the 2009 Residential Energy Consumption Survey - Rachel Harter, Mike Kwanisai,
Ashley Amaya
Keywords:
area probability, weights, multiplicity, adjustment, poststratification
Session 115: Recent Advances in
Statistical Matching
Organizer(s): Susan
Rassler, University of Bamberg
Using Uncertainty Bounds for Regression Imputation in Statistical
Matching - Hans Kiesl,
Susanne Rassler
Keywords:
statistical matching, regression imputation, uncertainty bounds
Robust Multiple Imputation for Discrete Data in Missing-by-Design
Settings - Florian
Meinfelder, Trivellore Raghunathan
Keywords:
multiple imputation, missing data, statistical matching, data fusion
Bayesian Analysis of Binary Probit Models: The Case of Measurement
Error and Sequential Regression Modeling for Missing Explaining Factors
- Christian Aβmann, Benno Schonberger
Keywords:
MICE, MCMC, Bayesian Analysis, Probit, Measurement Error, Panel Data
Statistical Matching of Administrative and Survey Data: An Application
to Wealth Inequality Analyses - Anika
Rasner, Frick R. Joachim, Markus M. Grabka
Keywords:
statistical matching, imputation, inequality, social security wealth
Displaying Uncertainty In Data Fusion By Multiple Imputation - Susanne Rassler, Julia Cielebak
Keywords:
statistical matching, bounds, missing data, combining data from
different sources
Session 159: Multi-Mode Surveys:
Design and Effects
Organizer(s): Brad
Edwards, Westat Inc.
Chair(s): Mark
Pierzchala, MPP Survey Services
Distinguishing Mode Selection Effects from Mode Response Effects in the
Consumer Assessments of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey
- Alan M. Zaslavsky
Keywords:
principal stratification, mixed mode survey, health care surveys
Framing Inference from Mixed-Mode Surveys Using Causal Inference
Framework - Trivellore
Raghunathan
Keywords:
Bayesian Inference, Potential Outcomes, Nonresponse, Measurement Error,
Panel Surveys, Mixed Modes
Can We Drive Respondents to the Web? Experiemntal Tests of Multi-Mode
Survey Implementation and Varied Survey Benefit Appeals - Danna Moore
Keywords:
mult-mode surveys, experiments survey design, benefit appeals,
agriculture
Piggyback Survey Respondents
and Mode: Lessons Learned from Design and
Operations - Brad
Edwards
Keywords:
survey design, multi-mode, piggyback, sample design
Using a Multi-Mode Survey Design on a Panel Study of New Businesses - David DesRoches
Keywords:
establishment surveys, entrepreneurship, multi-mode surveys, business
surveys
Session 226: Solving Nonstandard
Problems for National Surveys
Organizer(s): Denise A.
Abreu, National Agricultural Statistics Service
Chair(s): Xia Wang,
National Institute of Statistical Sciences
Is It Feasible to Use a
Sampling List Frame to Evaluate
Misclassification Errors of an Area-Frame-Based Survey? - Denise A. Abreu, Andrea C.
Lamas, Hailin Sang, Pam Arroway, Kenneth Kyle Lopiano, Linda
J. Young
Keywords:
Misclassification Errors, Area Frame, List Frame, Record Linkage,
Re-screening Survey
Adjusting an Area Frame
Estimate for Misclassification Using a List
Frame - Andrea
C.
Lamas, Denise A. Abreu, Hailin Sang, Kenneth Kyle Lopiano, Pam Arroway,
Linda J. Young
Keywords:
Misclassification, Area Frame, List Frame, Classification and
Regression Tree, Receiver Operating Characteristic curve
Estimating Change for a Dynamic Target Population - Ivan A. Carrillo-Garcia
Keywords:
Longitudinal surveys, Panel surveys, Weighting, Finite population,
Super-population, Division of Science Resources Statistics, NSF
Developing a Set of Decision Rules for a Responsive Split Questionnaire
Design - Jeffrey Gonzalez
Keywords:
Composite estimation, Cost-error tradeoffs, Matrix sampling, Multiphase
sampling, Paradata, Propensity model
Session 287: Exploration of Data
Quality in Work with Administrative Records and Sample Surveys
Organizer(s): John L.
Eltinge, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair(s): Denise A.
Abreu, National Agricultural Statistics Service
Exploration of Data Quality in Work with Administrative Records and
Sample Surveys - Daniell
Toth, Polly Phipps
Keywords:
Recursive partitioning, non-ignorable nonresponse, propensity model,
establishment survey, Classification and Regression Trees (CART)
Re-Weighting the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Linked to Medicare Administrative Records - Lisa Beth Mirel, Jennifer D.
Parker
Keywords:
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, NHANES, Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, Statistical weights, Non-response
adjustment
Building A Comprehensive Data Set On Every Teacher: The Nces Teacher
Compensation Survey - Stephen
Q. Cornman, Frank Johnson, Lei Zhou, Amber Noel
Keywords:
Administrative data on teachers' compensation, teacher salaries,
teacher characteristics
Responsive Designs for Rare Subpopulations Subject to Misclassification
- Randall Powers, John
L. Eltinge
Keywords:
Efficient design, Measurement error, Point estimation, Response error,
Subsampling, Total statistical risk
Session 290: Social Statistics
Section Student Paper Competition Winners
Organizer(s): Elizabeth
A. Stuart, The Johns Hopkins University
Chair(s): Nicholas
Beyler, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Bayesian Analysis of Between-Group Differences in Variance Components
in Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models - Brady Thomas West
Keywords:
Bayesian Analysis, Variance Components, Generalized Linear Mixed
Models, Likelihood Ratio Testing, Survey Interviewing, Interviewer
Variance
Combining Information from Multiple Complex Surveys - Qi Dong
Keywords:
complex sample survey, combining rule for multiple surveys, synthetic
populations, multiple imputation, health insurance coverage rates,
NHIS, MEPS
Variance Inflation Factors in the Analysis of Complex Survey Data - Dan Liao
Keywords:
cluster sample, collinearity diagnostics, linearization variance
estimator, survey-weighted least squares, stratified sample, unequal
weighting
Synthetic Data Generation for Small-Area Estimation in the American
Community Survey - Joseph
Sakshaug
Keywords:
synthetic data, small area estimation, disclosure, microdata
Imputation and Estimation Under Nonignorable Nonresponse for Household
Surveys with Missing Covariate Information - Anna Sikov, Danny Pfeffermann
Keywords:
Bootstrap, Calibration, Horvitz-Thompson type estimator, Respondents
distribution, Nonrespondents distribution
Session 291: Model Selection and
Inference in Complex Problems with Survey Applications
Organizer(s): Ansu
Chatterjee, University of Minnesota
Chair(s): Taps Maiti,
Michigan State University
Benchmarking the Mixed Linear
Model for Longitudinal Data - Thuan Nguyen
Keywords:
Longitudinal Data, Linear Mixed Models, Missing Values
GEE Analysis of Clustered Binary Data with Diverging Number of
Parameters - Lan Wang,
Jianhui Zhou, Annie Qu
Keywords:
GEE, clustered binary data, high-dimensional data, correlated data
Threshold Estimation Using P-Values - Atul Mallik, Moulinath Banerjee,
Bodhisattva Sen
Keywords:
baseline value, change point, stump function
Hierarchical Spatial Regression
Models for Change Point Analysis - Chae Young Lim, Taps Maiti,
Sarat C. Dass
Keywords:
Joinpoint analysis, Disease mapping, Bayesian nonparametrics, Dirichlet
process priors
Joint Estimation of Multiple Gaussian Graphical Models by Nonconvex
Penalty Functions with an Application to Genomic Data - Hyonho Chun
Keywords:
GGMs, regularization, gene networks
Session 338: Perspectives on
Managing Data Confidentiality and Access Issues by Government,
Academic, and Nonprofit Researchers
Organizer(s): Chris
Chapman, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair(s): Jonaki Bose,
Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, SAMHSA
The Microdata Analysis System
at the U.S. Census Bureau - Michael Freiman, Laura Zayatz,
Lisa Singh, Jiashen You, Michael DePersio
Keywords:
Data Confidentiality, Remote Access Servers, Universe Subsampling,
Synthetic Data, Regression, Disclosure
Research Access to Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems - Satkartar Kinney
Keywords:
Data Access, Education Data
Disclosure Risk Assessment for
Population-based Cancer Microdata - Mandi Yu, David Stinchcomb,
Kathleen Cronin
Keywords:
Cancer Registry Data, Disclosure Risk, Population Unique, Small Area,
ACS, PUMS
Simulating Geography for Microdata Disclosure via Sparse Multinomial
Probit Models - Lane F.
Burgette, Jerome P. Reiter
Keywords:
Confidentiality, Multinomial probit, Potts model, Spatial, Synthetic
Applicability of Basic Separability Principles to Enhance the
Operational Efficiency of Synthetic Tabular Data Generation Procedures
in Multidimensional Table Structures - Ramesh Atmaram Dandekar
Keywords:
Statistical Disclosure, perturbation, tabular data, establishment data,
individual data, privacy
Session 393: Linking
Administrative Data to Survey Data: Implications for Consent
Organizer(s): Joseph
Sakshaug, University of Michigan
Chair(s): Joseph
Sakshaug, University of Michigan
Jumping the Informed Consent Hurdle: Federal Agency Experiences - Mary Frazier, Cynthia Nickerson
Keywords:
administrative records, linking, informed consent
Historical data linkage of tax records on earnings: The case of the
Living in Canada Survey pilot - Manon
Langevin, Andrew Heisz
Keywords:
historical linkage, retrospective linkage, tax data, administrative
data, matched data, linkage rate
Record Linkage in the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in
Europe - Annelies Blom,
Ulrich Krieger, Julie M. Korbmacher
Keywords:
record linkage, administrative data, consent, interviewer effects
Session 397: New Developments in
American Community Survey Methods and Mapping Applications
Organizer(s): Michael
Beaghen, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): Alfredo
Navarro, U.S. Census Bureau
Using Imputation Methods to
Improve the American Community Survey
Estimates of the Group Quarters Population for Small Geographies
- Mark Asiala, Michael
Beaghen,
Alfredo Navarro
Keywords:
sample design, small area estimation
Using Statistical Process
Control Techniques in the American Community
Survey -
Steven Hefter,
Erica Marquette
Keywords:
ACS, Statistical Process Control, Error
Incorporating a Finite
Population Correction Factor in American
Community Survey Variance Estimates - Michael Starsinic
Keywords:
American Community Survey, variance estimation, finite population
correction
Improving Weighted Person-Level
Estimates from the American Community
Survey's Public Use Microdata Sample - Bryan Dale Garrett
Keywords:
American Community Survey, weighting, public use microdata
Mapping American Community
Survey Data - Nancy
K. Torrieri, Michael
Ratcliffe, David Wong
Keywords:
American Community Survey, Mapping, Sampling Error
Session
453: Using the American Community Survey as a Sampling Frame: A
Collaborative Effort
Organizer(s): Stephen Cohen, National Science Foundation
Chair(s): Brian Harris-Kojetin, Office of Management and Budget
NSCG Sampling Issues When Using
an ACS-Based Sampling Frame - David Hall, Stephen Cohen, John
Finamore, Flora Lan
Keywords:
NSCG, ACS, Sampling Frame
NSCG Estimation Issues When
Using an ACS-Based Sampling Frame - John Finamore, Stephen Cohen,
David Hall, Donsig Jang, Julie Walker
Keywords:
NSCG, Multiple Panel Estimation, ACS
Evaluating 2003 NSCG Dual-Frame
Estimates for 2010 NSCG Planning
Purposes - Donsig
Jang,
David Hall
Keywords:
NSCG, Dual Frame Estimation
Variance Estimation Issues in
the 2010 NSCG Two-Phase Sample Design - Michael Edmund White, Jean
Opsomer
Keywords:
NSCG, ACS, two-phase sample design, variance estimation
Session 455: Disclosure Avoidance
for Tabular Data
Organizer(s): Donsig
Jang, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Chair(s): Donsig Jang,
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Initial Efforts to Extend the EZS Noise Methodology to the Quarterly
Census of Employment and Wages - Michael
Buso
Keywords:
tabular data, disclosure, noise, random noise
Applying Cell Suppression to
Inter-Related Tables - Jacob
Bournazian, Michael
Salpeter, Bin Zhang
Keywords:
confidentiality, cell suppression
Modernizing Cell Suppression
Software at the U.S. Census Bureau - Paul B. Massell
Keywords:
Cell Suppression, Sensitive Cells, Protection at the Company Level
Using Tau-Argus and sdcTable to
Conduct Secondary Cell Suppression for
Linked Tables - Amang
Sukasih, Donsig Jang, David Edson
Keywords:
disclosure avoidance, tabular data
Session 498: Demographic Survey
Sample Redesign at the U.S. Census Bureau
Organizer(s): T. Trang
Nguyen, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): Timothy L.
Kennel, U.S. Census Bureau
Fifty Years of Sample Redesign at the U.S. Census Bureau - James Farber
Keywords:
demographic surveys, survey methdology, history
Frame Improvement for the
Demographic Surveys Sample Redesign - Xijian Liu
Keywords:
coverage improvement, Master Address File, address base sampling
Sample Design Research in the
2010 Sample Redesign - T.
Trang Nguyen, Arielle Gerstein
Keywords:
Demographic surveys sample redesign, household surveys, survey
coodination, annual sampling, multistage sample design
How the U.S. Census Bureau's
Redesign of Household Survey Sampling
Impacts Field and Clerical Operations - Alex Winstead, Rose Byrne,
Scott M. Harclerode, Chris Kuwik
Keywords:
sample redesign, locating sample units, household surveys, field
operations, group quarters, survey sample
Session 504: Opportunities and
Challenges in Statistical Work with Administrative Record Data
Organizer(s): William
Iwig, National Agricultural Statistics Service
Chair(s): William Iwig,
National Agricultural Statistics Service
A Case Study in Using Household Information from Administrative
Databases - Martin
Pantel
Keywords:
Frames, Administrative data, Paradata
Sources of Revision in Statistics Canada's Service Indices - Keven Bosa
Keywords:
multi-mode, administrative data, imputation, revision
Utilizing Automated Statistical Edit Changes in Significance Editing - Wendy Barboza, Kay Turner
Keywords:
significance editing, statistical data editing, selective editing,
outlier detection, NASS
Trends in Record Linkage Refusal Rates: Characteristics of National
Health Interview Survey Participants Who Refuse Record Linkage - Donna M. Miller, Renee M. Gindi,
Jennifer D. Parker
Keywords:
administrative data, refusal to link, health survey, NCHS, NHIS, Social
Security Number
Session 563: Calibration
Weighting and Benchmarking in Sample Surveys
Organizer(s): Phil Kott,
RTI International
Chair(s): Darryl Creel,
RTI International
Calibration Estimation and
Longitudinal Survey Weights: Application to
the NSF Survey of Doctorate Recipients - Michael D. Larsen, Siyu Qing,
Beilei Zhou, Mary A. Foulkes
Keywords:
calibration weighting, longitudinal study, panel study, raking, SESTAT,
survey sampling
Exploring Calibration of NIS Weights Utilizing Telephone Status from
the NHIS - Meena Khare,
Kennon R. Copeland, Abera Wouhib, Nadarajasundaram Ganesh, Kirk M.
Wolter
Keywords:
RDD telephone surveys, noncoverage adjustment
WTADJX Is Coming: Calibration
Weighting in SUDAAN When Unit
Nonrespondents Are Not Missing at Random and Other Applications
- Phil Kott
Keywords:
Response model, Nonresponse bias, Generalized raking, Variance
estimation, Optimal calibration
Simultaneous Calibration and Nonresponse Adjustment with Explicit
Variance Formulas - Eric
Victor Slud, Yves Thibaudeau
Keywords:
selection probabilities, nonresponse adjustments, design-consistency,
linearization formula
Two-Stage Bayesian Benchmarking for Small-Area Estimation - Malay Ghosh
Keywords:
Bayes, Benchmarking, Small Area, Two Stage
Sessino 606: The Federal
Government's Response to Emerging Privacy Challenges
Organizer(s): J. Neil
Russell, National Center for Education Statistics
Chair(s): J. Neil
Russell, National Center for Education Statistics
Maintaining Privacy in Data.gov Data Files - Jacob Bournazian
Keywords:
Confidentiality, Privacy
The Challenges of Consolidating Federal Government Information Systems
- Ron Bianchi, Peter
Meyer
Keywords:
SCOPE, privacy, security, consolidation, federal, transparency
Statistical Methods for Protecting Personally Identifiable Information
in Aggregate Reporting - Marilyn
Seastrom
Keywords:
Disclosure Limitation Methods, Confidentiality, Privacy, Aggregated
Data, Data Protection
Evaluating a Constrained Hotdeck to Perturb American Community Survey
Data for the Census Transportation Planning Products - Tom Krenzke, Jianzhu Li, David
Judkins, Michael D. Larsen
Keywords:
Synthetic data, semi-parametric imputation, model-based imputation,
data utility, disclosure limitation, confidentiality
Exploring New Methods for Protecting and Distributing Confidential
Research Data - Felicia
LeClere
Keywords:
confidentiality, data services, data sharing, cloud computing
Session 609: Overview on Results
from 2010 Census Nonresponse and Group Quarters Field Operations
Organizer(s): Geoffrey
Ian Jackson, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): Michael R.
Elliott, University of Michigan
No Group Quarters Left Behind:
The New 2010 Census Group Quarters
Validation - Andre
Williams, Diane Barrett
Keywords:
Group Quarters Validation (GQV), Other Living Quarters (OLQs),
Addressing Canvassing, Group Quarters (GQs)
Characteristics of the 2010 Census Nonresponse Follow-Up Operation - Hilda S. Dimmock
Keywords:
Nonresponse, 2010 Census, Vacant Delete Check, NRFU Residual, NRFU
Characteristics of the 2010
Census Nonresponse Follow-Up Operation - Sarah K. Heimel
Keywords:
2010 Census, nonresponse, Nonresponse Followup
Evaluating the 2010 Census
Nonresponse Follow-Up Reinterview - Sandra Peterson
Keywords:
reinterview, quality control, falsification
Outcome of the 2010
Vacant/Delete Check and Nonresponse Follow-Up
Residual Census Enumeration Operations - Elizabeth Krejsa Poehler,
Geoffrey Ian Jackson
Keywords:
Nonresponse Followup, 2010 Census, Vacant Delete Check, Nonresponse
Followup Residual
Session 650: Measuring Green Jobs
Organizer(s): Shail
Butani, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair(s): Shail Butani,
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Measuring Green Industry
Employment: Developing a Definition of Green
Goods and Services - Robert
Viégas
Keywords:
Green, GGS, Employment, Green goods and services
Measuring Green Industry
Employment - Kristin
Fairman
Keywords:
Green, GGS, employment, green goods and services
Maximizing Sample Overlap
between Two Independent Surveys - David Salvatore Piccone, Edwin
Robison, Shail Butani
Keywords:
Power allocation, Neyman allocation, sample rotation panels,
independent smaple designs, sub-sampling, swapping algorithm
Counting Green Jobs: Developing
the Green Technologies and Practices
Survey - Sharon
Schierberg Stang
Keywords:
Green, GTP, practices, technlogies, employment, wages
Contributed Papers
Session 28: Sample and Census
Survey Methods
Chair(s): Yang Cheng,
U.S. Census Bureau
Toward a Structural Approach to Questionnaire Design - Ioana Schiopu Kratina,
Christina Maria Zamfirescu
Keywords:
questionnaire design, node, path, coverage of a question
The 2012 Commodity Flow Survey: Lessons Learned from a Precanvass
Survey of Establishments - Li
Leung
Keywords:
Commodity Flow Survey, Advance Survey, Sample Frame, Freight
Transportation, Establishment Survey
Computer Simulations to Improve Quality Control Strategies for Census
Data Capture - Glenn
Sylvester Wolfgang
Keywords:
keying data capture, quality control, average outgoing quality limit
(AOQL), Census 2010
Consideration of Variance Estimation in the Sample Design of the U.S.
Census Bureau's Service Annual Survey - Grant Degler
Keywords:
sample design, variance estimation, simulation study, outlier detection
Hierarchical Simulation Model for Indian PES - Kiranmoy Chatterjee, Arni S.R.
Srinivasa Rao
Keywords:
Coverage error, Artificial population, Dual system estimate
Session
29: Survey of Methods to Analyze Complex Data
Chair(s): Frank Yoon, Harvard Medical School
Estimating Health Care Savings from Fall-Related Injuries Prevented by
the Connecticut Collaboration for Fall Prevention - Terrence E. Murphy
Keywords:
zip code tabulation area (ZCTA), fall-related injury, multifactorial
intervention, cost of injury, multivariate spatial model
Real-Time Sampling Methods for
Patient Surveys - Ronaldo
Iachan, Tonja
Kyle
Keywords:
Real time sampling, patient surveys
Hospital Re-Admission Risk Prediction and Stratification - Donghui Wu, Ognian
Asparouhvo
Keywords:
Hospital Re-admission Risk, Predictive Modeling, Health Economics, Data
Mining
Standard Errors: Statistical Consequences of Health Care Provider
Insurance Risk Assumption - Thomas
Cox
Keywords:
standard errors, health care finance, capitation, prospective payment
systems, managed care, insurance
Investigation of the Consequence of State Mandated Insurance Coverage
for Autism - David Ben
Ellsworth
Keywords:
Autism, Data Mining, Legislation, Health Insurance
A Bayesian Analytical Study of the Impact of Information Therapy Events
Using Patient-Level Claims Data - Philip
Twumasi-Ankrah, Traci A. Hart, Douglas D. Bradham, Nikki
Woods, Amy Chesser
Keywords:
Information Therapy, Health-care, generalized linear models, bayesian
analysis, claims data, insurance
Session 35: Data-Collection
Methods, Interviewers, and Survey Management
Chair(s): Barbara Lepidus
Carlson, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Investigating the Effect of Interviewer Job Attitudes on Turnover and
Job Performance in Centralized Telephone Interviewing Facilities - Ashley Bowers, Steven G.
Heeringa, Michael R. Elliott, Benjamin Duffey
Keywords:
survey costs, interviewer turnover, job satisfaction, job performance
Information Flowing in Two
Directions: How Respondents Learn by
Responding to the National Health Interview Survey - Jane F. Gentleman
Keywords:
Survey respondents, Interviewer training, National Health Interview
Survey, National Center for Health Statistics
Where Do Interviewers Go When
They Do What They Do? An Analysis of
Interviewer Travel in Two Field Surveys - James R.
Wagner, Kristen Olson
Keywords:
cost analysis, interviewers, face to face data collection, nonresponse
Optimizing CATI Workload to
Minimize Data Collection Cost - Ghulam Hussain Choudhry
Keywords:
Linear and logistic regression models, Optimum CATI schedule,
Non-linear programming, Cost-savings
Highlights and Lessons from the
First Two Pilots of Responsive
Collection Design for CATI Surveys - Francois Laflamme, Hélène St-Jean
Keywords:
paradata, responsive design, active management, productivity,
R-indicator, propensity model
Session
36: Variance Estimation
Chair(s): Rebecca Andridge, The Ohio State University
New Resampling Method for Two-Phase Sampling Designs - Erika Antal, Yves Tillé
Keywords:
variance-estimation, bootstrap, two-phase
Finite Population Correction
(FPC) for NAEP Variance Estimation - Lou Rizzo, Keith Rust
Keywords:
Jackknife, NAEP, Finite Population Correction, Fay's Method
Variance Estimation for
Measures of Trends with Rotated Repeated
Surveys - Yves
Guy
Berger
Keywords:
Auxiliary variables, Inclusion probabilities, Multivariate regression,
Sampling designs, Stratification, Unequal probabilitie
Using Successive Difference
Replication for Estimating Variances - Stephen Ash
Keywords:
Successive differences, successive difference replication, systematic
random sampling
Incorporating a First-Stage
Finite Population Correction (FPC) in
Variance Estimation for a Two-Stage Design in the National Assessment
of Educational Progress (NAEP) - Jennifer
Kali, John Burke, Lloyd Hicks, Lou Rizzo, Keith Rust
Keywords:
Jackknife, school sample, replicate weights
Session 80: Section on Survey
Research Methods - Evaluating Imputation Methods: Multiple,
Multivariate, and Other Approaches
Chair(s): Marilyn
Seastrom, National Center for Education Statistics
Analysis of Multiple Imputation
Methods for the Survey of Local
Election Officials - Timothy
Markham, Jeffrey Schneider, Eric Falk, David McGrath
Keywords:
PROC MI, hot deck, multiple imputation, voting
Imputation of Multiple-Response
Items in SESTAT and Its Component
Surveys - Nicholas
Beyler, Donsig Jang, Amang Sukasih
Keywords:
Hot-Deck Imputation, Multivariate Imputation, SESTAT, IVEware
Multiple Imputation for Missing Covariates in Regression Models with
Interactions - Soeun
Kim, Catherine Ann Sugar, Thomas R. Belin
Keywords:
missing data, multiple imputation, regression, interaction
A Comparison of Approximate
Bayesian Bootstrap and Weighted Sequential
Hot Deck for Multiple Imputation -
Darryl Creel
Keywords:
Multiple Imputation, Approximate Bayesian Bootstrap, Weighted
Sequential Hot Deck
IRT Summarized Pattern Mixture Model for Data Not Missing at Random - Jian Zhu, Trivellore Raghunathan
Keywords:
multiple imputation, item response theory, nonignorable missing data
Assessing Several Hot Deck
Imputation Methods for Several Economic
Programs -
Laura T.
Bechtel, Roberta Gibson, Yarissa Gonzalez, Alison Gajcowski, Matthew
Nelson
Keywords:
hot deck imputation, simulation, cross-validation
Session 125: Federal Survey
Estimate Quality: Some Issues and Some Solutions
Chair(s): Aref Dajani,
U.S. Census Bureau
Exploring Nonresponse Bias In A National Health Expenditures Survey Of
Institutions - Sameena
Maryam Salvucci, Eric Grau
Keywords:
Response Rates, survey estimates, nonresponse adjustment, Weighting,
logistic regression, nonresponse modeling
Logistic Regression with Variables Subject to Post-Randomization Method
- Yong Ming Jeffrey Woo,
Aleksandra Slavkovic
Keywords:
Statistical disclosure control, logistic regression, generalized linear
models, EM algorithm
Bridging Livestock Survey Results to Published Estimates Through
State-Space Models: A Time-Series Approach - Stephen Busselberg
Keywords:
State-Space, Time Series, ARIMA, Kalman Filter
Session 129: Small-Area
Estimation: Applications to Health Data
Chair(s): Karol Krotki,
RTI International
Modeling Health Insurance
Coverage Estimates for Minnesota Counties - Joanna Turner, Peter Graven
Keywords:
health insurance coverage, small area estimates, MNHA, county
estimates, ACS
Application of Hierarchical
Bayesian Models with Poststratification for
Small-Area Estimation from Complex Survey Data - Vladislav Beresovsky, Catharine
W. Burt, Van Parsons, Nathaniel Schenker, Ryan Mutter
Keywords:
health care utilization, small area estimation, multilevel logistic
regression, poststratification, hierarchical Bayesian model
A Three-Part Model for Survey
Estimates of Proportions - Samuel Szelepka, Mark Bauder
Keywords:
SAHIE, Health Insurance, Small Area Estimation
Methods and Results for
Small-Area Estimation Using Smoking Data from
the 2008 National Health Interview Survey - Neung Soo Ha, Van Parsons,
Partha Lahiri
Keywords:
National Health Interview Survey, Small area estimation, Fay-Herriot
method, Variance estimation, Hierarchical modeling
The Development of State Estimates from a National Health Survey - Wendy Van de Kerckhove, Robert
E. Fay , Leyla K. Mohadjer, Lester R. Curtin
Keywords:
Small area estimation, NHANES, CHIS
State and Local Wireless and Landline Estimates - Nadarajasundaram Ganesh, Michael
Davern, Stephen Blumberg, Julian Luke, Miche Boudreaux, Karen Soderberg
Keywords:
NHIS, Small Area Estimation, State Wireless Prevalence Estimates
Session 174: Small-Area
Estimation in Theory and Practice
Chair(s): Hans Kiesl,
Regensburg University of Applied Sciences
Estimation of Poverty at the
School District Level Using Hierarchical
Bayes Modeling - Sam
Hawala, Partha Lahiri
Keywords:
Small Area Estimation, Hierarchical Bayes, SAIPE, MCMC
A Bayesian Zero-One Inflated
Beta Model for Estimating Poverty in U.S.
Counties -
Jerzy
Wieczorek, Sam Hawala
Keywords:
Small Area Estimates, SAIPE, MCMC, Beta Regression, Hierarchical Model
Application of Small-Area
Estimation for Annual Survey of Employment
and Payroll - Bac
Tran
Keywords:
Decision-based Estimation, Modified Direct Estimator, Synthetic
Estimation, Composite Estimation
An Empirical Best Linear
Unbiased Prediction Approach to Small-Area
Estimation of Crop Parameters -
Michael E. Bellow, Partha Lahiri
Keywords:
small-area estimation, components of variance, predictor variables
A 'Virtual Population' Approach
to Small-Area Estimation - Michael P. Battaglia, Martin R.
Frankel, Lina S. Balluz
Keywords:
Iterative Probability Adjustment, American Community Survey, Behavioral
Risk Factor Surveillance System
Additive Random Coefficient
(ARC) Models for Robust Small Area
Estimation - Ralph
E.
Folsom, Akhil K. Vaish, Avinash C. Singh
Keywords:
small area estimation, generalized design effects, nonignorable survey
sampling design, general liner mixed model, additive random
coefficient, survey weighted estimating equations
Quasi-BLUPs for Reducing Over-Shrinkage in Small-Area Estimation - Avinash C. Singh, Pin Yuan
Keywords:
Alternatives to EBLUP, Over-shrinkage, Zero or Negative Estimated
Variance Component
Session 175: Section on Survey
Research Methods - Evaluating Sample Designs and Redesigns
Chair(s): Roy Whitmore,
RTI International
Sampling Design for the
2010-2012 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical
Care Survey - Iris
Shimizu
Keywords:
survey design, sampling design, health care survey
Innovative Northern Design
Improvements in the Canadian Labour Force
Survey - Edward
J. Chen
Keywords:
sample design, low population, data quality
Early Childhood Longitudinal
Study: Kindergarten Class of 2010-2011 -
Sample Design Issues - Thanh
Lê, Greg Norman, Karen Tourangeau, J. Michael Brick, Gail Mulligan
Keywords:
Longitudinal survey, multi-stage sampling, oversampling, sample
coverage, sample attrition
Predicting Violent Crime Rates
for the 2010 Redesign of the National
Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) - Robert E. Fay, Jianzhu Li
Keywords:
Sample design, UCR
Update on the Evaluation of
Sample Design Issues in the National
Compensation Survey - Gwyn
R. Ferguson, Chester Ponikowski, Joan Coleman
Keywords:
survey design, sample allocation, dependent sampling, respondent
burden, sample rotation
Alternative Probability Proportionate to Size Sampling Methods for the
IPP Sample Design - James
Himelein
Keywords:
Probability proportionate to size sampling, systematic vs. alternative
procedures, Sunter method, Sampford Method, Yates-Grundy variance
estimator
Sample Design Changes For The NHANES 2011-2014 Annual Surveys - Sylvia Dohrmann, Hongsheng Hao,
Leyla K. Mohadjer, Lin Li, Wendy Van de Kerckhove, Lester R. Curtin
Keywords:
Sample design, stratification, oversampling, household surveys
Session 176: Value-Added, IRT
Models, and Education Outcomes Value-Added, IRT Models, and Education
Outcomes
Chair(s): Booil Jo,
Stanford University
Exploring Missing Data in Value-Added Models in Education - Andrew Karl, Yan Yang, Sharon
Lohr
Keywords: EM
algorithm, generalized linear mixed model, joint model, missing not at
random, multi-membership model
Modeling Score-Based Student Achievement Data with Many Ceiling Values
- Yan Yang
Keywords:
Censoring, EM algorithm, mixed effects, Tobit model, value-added
modeling
Teachers' Attitudes Toward Job Conditions: An Index Created by an
Unfolding IRT Model - Weiwei
Cui
Keywords:
Item Response Theory, Survey, Job Satisfaction
Assessing Goodness of Fit of Item Response Theory Models Using
Generalized Residuals - Sandip
Sinharay, Shelby J. Haberman
Keywords:
model fit, psychometrics, educational statistics, item response theory
Modeling Outcomes for Elementary Science Education: The Science Writing
Heuristic Project - Mack
Shelley, Christopher Gonwa-Reeves, Joan Baenziger, Brian Hand, William
Therrien
Keywords:
Multilevel modeling, Structural equation models, Science education,
Science Writing Heuristic, Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, Cornell Critical
Thinking test
Dropout Factories and College Enrollment: How School-Level Rates of
On-Time Grade Promotion Affect Matriculation - Thomas Christopher West
Keywords:
administrative data, applied, secondary education, postsecondary
education, education, grade retention
Session 241: Challenging
Populations and Novel Sample Designs
Chair(s): Hyunshik Lee,
Westat Inc.
The Mali Road Project: A Case Study in Paired Sampling - Betty J. Jackson, Randall J.
Parmer, Saskia R. Devries
Keywords: paired sample
design, road improvement project, household finances
Comparing Measure-Level
Sampling and Bed-Level Sampling for Group
Quarters Sample Redesign - Stephanie
M. Coffey, Bonnie Coggins, Arielle Gerstein, Rachel Horwitz
Keywords:
Sampling, Clustering, Demographic Surveys
Composite Size Measures in Surveys of Rare or Hard-to-Reach Populations
- Frank Potter, Eric
Grau, John Hall
Keywords:
hard-to-reach populations, rare populations, composite size measure,
complex survey design
Two Methods of Sampling New Construction for the Demographic Surveys
Sample Redesign - Andreea
Rawlings, Danielle Castelo
Keywords:
skeleton sampling, new construction sampling, Master Address File
Using Order Sampling to Achieve
a Fixed Sample Size After Nonresponse -
Pedro J. Saavedra, Lee
Harding, Francine Barrington
Keywords:
replacements, Pareto sampling, adjustments, simulations, sequential
Poisson sampling, propensity categories
Session 242: Multiple Modes and
Multiple Data Sources
Chair(s): Elizabeth
Stasny, The Ohio State University
A Randomized Experiment Comparing Response Quality in a Single and a
Mixed Mode Design Health Survey - Johann
Carstensen, Peter Kriwy, Gerhard Krug
Keywords:
survey design, mixed mode, sensitive items, web survey, nonresponse,
social desirability
Does Survey Mode Make Differences? A Comparative Evaluation of the
Department of Defense Survey of Health-Related Behaviors and the U.S.
Air Force Community Assessment Survey - Zhiwei Zhang
Keywords:
military survey, mixed-mode, web survey, substance use, mental health,
DOD
Comparing Cell Phone and Web for a Student Survey - Young-Je Woo, Sun-Woong Kim,
Mick Couper
Keywords:
cell phone survey, web survey, coverage, response rate
Respondent Effects in a
Dual-Mode Survey of Physicians: 2008-2009 - Esther Hing, Chun-Ju Hsiao, Paul
Beatty, Sandra Decker
Keywords:
Physician survey, Dual mode survey, Respondent effects
Missing Data in Record-Linked Data Sets: Comparing the Performance of
Different Missing Data Techniques - Gerhard Krug
Keywords:
missing data, record linkage, multiple imputation, sample selection
model
An Integrated Adaptive Approach to Data Fusion - Hui Xie, Yi Qian
Keywords:
Data Combination, Nonparametric Method, MCMC, Survey, Multiple
Imputation, Missing Data
Session 250: Survey Sampling
Methodology in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Wendy Lou ,
University of Toronto
Relationship of Smoking and Cancer in Women: A National Health and
Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2005-2006 Study - Sunita Ghosh, Qiahao Zhu
Keywords:
NHANES, cancer, smoking, GEE, alcohol
Estimating Sibling Recurrence Risk In Population Sample Surveys - Barry Ira Graubard, Monroe G.
Sirken
Keywords:
counting rule, network estimation, sampling errors, reporting errors
Mantel-Haenszel Estimators for Complex Survey Data - Babette Brumback, Zhulin He
Keywords:
odds ratio, complex sampling designs, conditional logistic regression,
sparse-data limiting models, cluster sampling
Analysis of Case-Control Studies with Sample Weights - Victoria Landsman, Barry Ira
Graubard
Keywords:
Informative sampling,, Modeling sample weights, Weighted estimating
equations, Sample distribution
Integrating Data From Two Surveys To Estimate The Prevalence Of
Cervical Cancer Screening And Its Associated Factors In The U.S.-Mexico
Border Region - Ruben
Smith, Dyanne Herrera, Emily Schiefelbein, Jill McDonald, Gita
Mirchandani
Keywords:
Complex survey data, data pooling, subpopulation analysis, logistic
regression
Survey Design and Results from UNICEF Project in Sierra Leone - Theresa Diaz, Sowmya R. Rao,
Adam Wolkon, Gary Shapiro, Peter S. Bangura, John Baimba
Keywords:
childhood mortality, surveys, cluster sample
Use of GPS-Enabled Mobile Devices to Conduct Surveys - Sowmya R. Rao, Gary Shapiro,
Theresa Diaz
Keywords:
Surveys, GPS-enabled mobile device, PDA
Session 297: Missing Data and
Measurement Error
Chair(s): Yan Ma, Cornell
University
A Semi-Parametric Roc Approach To Assessing Biomarkers Subject To A
Measurement Error And Limit Of Detection - Weijie Chen
Keywords:
ROC analysis, biomarker, measurement error, limit of detection, maximum
likelihood estimation, semi-parametric model
Multiple Imputation of High-Dimensional Mixed Incomplete Data - Ren He, Thomas R. Belin
Keywords:
Multiple Imputation, Hierarchical prior, MCMC, Parameter-Extended
algorithm
A Measurement Error Model for Self-Reported Physical Activity - Janet A. Tooze, Richard P.
Troiano, Raymond James Carroll, Laurence S. Freedman
Keywords:
Measurement error, Questionnaires, Validation, Physical Activity
Assessment
Maximum-Likelihood-Based Multiple Imputation - Tejas A. Desai
Keywords:
Imputation, Fisher Information, Missing data, maximum likelihood,
Frequentist Analysis, General Location Model
Session 305: Section on Survey
Research Methods - Assessing and Adjusting for Nonresponse
Chair(s): Rachel Harter,
NORC at the The University of Chicago
Estimation with Nonignorable Missing Covariates - Jiwei Zhao, Jun Shao
Keywords:
Non-ignorable, missing mechanism, missing covariate, pseudo-likelihood,
identifiability, asymptotic normality
Propensity Score Adjustment for Nonignorable Nonresponse - Minsun Kim Riddles, Jae-kwang Kim
Keywords:
missing data analysis, nonparametric prediction, generalized least
squares, EM algorithm
Assessment of Nonresponse Bias Through Interviewing Effort Analysis in
a Dual-Frame RDD Telephone Survey - Wei Zeng, Ben Skalland, James
Singleton
Keywords:
Cell Phone survey, non-response bias, weighting
Nonresponse Adjustment for a Vector of Outcomes and the MAR Assumption - Joel Wakesberg, Karen Christine
Masken, J. Michael Brick
Keywords:
nonresponse, missing data mechanism, vector of outcomes, raking
Analysis of Nonresponse in the
Statistics of Income's 1999 Individual
Tax Return Panel - Tara
R. Wells
Keywords:
Nonresponse bias, Propensity score adjustment, Panel attrition
Representativeness (R-Index)
and Nonresponse Bias Patterns in Household
Surveys - John
Dixon
Keywords:
Survey Nonresponse, R-index, propensity scores
Reweighting in the Presence of
Nonresponse in Stratified Designs - Ismael Flores Cervantes, J.
Michael Brick
Keywords:
Nonresponse, stratification, weighting classes
Session 349: Survey
Participation: Maximizing Cooperation and Minimizing Burden
Chair(s): HarmoniJoie
Noel, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cell Phone Versus Landline Respondents: Who's More Cooperative After
Screening? - Alicia M.
Frasier, Heather M. Morrison
Keywords:
RDD, Eligibility Screening, Cell Telephones
Given Different Mobile Phone Device Data Collection Options, What Will
Respondents Choose? - Daniel
Evan Williams, Laura Haber
Keywords:
Mobile phone data collection, At event sampling, Mode effects, Text
Message surveys, Mobile web surveys, IVR data collection
Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to Measure Respondents'
Perceived Risks of Web Surveys - Hsien-Yuan
Hsu, Yi-Hua Lai, Hsin-Ying Chin
Keywords:
measurement development, perceived risk theory, response rate, web
surveys
Testing Gender Difference in Perceived Time Risk of the Web Surveys
Using MIMIC Model - Hsin-Ying
Chin, Hsien-Yuan Hsu, Yi-Hua Lai
Keywords:
gender difference, perceived risk theory, response rate, web surveys
The Impacts of Respondents' Perceived Privacy and Time Risks on the Web
Surveys Reply Intention - Yi-Hua
Lai, Hsin-Ying Chin, Hsien-Yuan Hsu
Keywords:
perceived risk theory, response rate, web surveys
Managing Response Burden by
Controlling Sample Selection and Survey
Coverage - Sebastien
Landry
Keywords:
Business surveys, Response burden, Sample selection, Take-none strata
Beyond Response Rates: Exploring the Impact of Prepaid Cash Incentives
on Multiple Indicators of Data Quality - Rebecca Medway, Roger Tourangeau
Keywords:
incentives, data quality
Session 408: Federal Statistics
and Methods
Chair(s): Wendy Barboza,
National Agricultural Statistics Service
The Use of Longitudinal Analysis to Model PSU Level One-Year Price
Change in the Consumer Price Index - John Schilp
Keywords:
Longitudinal Data Analysis, Consumer Price Index, American Community
Survey Data
Revising Replicate Selection in the CPI Variance System - Owen J. Shoemaker
Keywords:
Stratified Random Groups, Replicates
Record Linkage Methodology in Longitudinal Database of Quarterly Census
of Employment and Wages - Marek
W. Kaminski, Vinod Kapani
Keywords:
Deterministic Record Linkage, Probabilistic Record Linkage, EM
algorithm, Accuracy of Linkage, Missing Data
Improving Estimates of Employment in Expanding and Contracting
Businesses - Joshua T.
Duffin, Kenneth W. Robertson, Jennifer Kim
Keywords:
ARIMA-X12, Current Employment Statistics, business employment dynamics,
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
Who Is Eligible for U.S. Employer-Sponsored Pensions? - Patricia Jeanne Fisher
Keywords:
SIPP, Employer Sponsored Pensions, Retirement
Effects of the Pretrial Supervision Phase on Children of Defendants:
Opportunities for New Data Collection and Analysis - Mary McGraw-Gross, Cynthia
McMurray, Michael Kisielewski
Keywords:
data collection, federal statistics, incarceration, survey data, focus
groups, data analysis
Session 413: Advances in
Inference and Estimation Methodology
Chair(s): Sahar Z.
Zangeneh, University of Michigan
Pre-Sampling Model-Based
Inference III - Stephen
Woodruff
Keywords:
Model Based Inference, Design Based Inference, Pre-sampling Inference
Rule of Thumb Regarding the Use Weights in Survey Sampling Analyses - Marnie Bertolet
Keywords:
Survey Sampling, Inverse Probability Weights, Survey Weights,
Multi-Level Models, Linear Mixed-Effects Models
Hierarchical Design-Based Estimation in Stratified Multipurpose Surveys
- Hugo Andres Gutierrez
Keywords:
Design-based estimation, finite population, hierarchical estimation,
multipurpose surveys, stratified sampling
A Coverage Approach to
Evaluating Mean Square Error - Alan Dorfman
Keywords:
Approximate Confidence
Intervals for a Parameter of the Negative
Hypergeometric Distribution - Lei
Zhang, William D. Johnson
Keywords:
Confidence interval, Empirical coverage probability, Inverse sampling,
Large sample theory, Negative hypergeometric distribution, Unbiased
estimator
Resampling Variance Estimation
for a Two-Phase Sample - Hyunshik
Lee, David A. Marker
Keywords:
Double-expansion estimate, reweighted expansion estimate, jackknife,
bootstrap, Taylor method, relative performance
Session 461: Issues with Missing
Data in Longitudinal Studies
Chair(s): Niko Kaciroti,
University of Michigan
Analysis of Longitudinal Binary Data with Nonignorable Dropout Using
Shared Parameter Models - Myungok
Lee, Keunbaik Lee
Keywords:
Generalized linear models, Marginalized transition, Shared parameter
models, Fisher-scoring
Analysis of Longitudinal Data with Non-Random Missingness Using Shared
Random Effects Models - Xiaoyun
Li, Stuart Lipsitz, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Geert Molenberghs,
Debajyoti Sinha
Keywords:
Bridge density, Logistic link, Longitudinal data, Non-random
missingness, Shared random effects
Longitudinal Data Analysis with Both Monotone and Non-Monotone Missing
Data - Chi-hong Tseng,
Robert Elashoff
Keywords:
missing data, shared parameter model, integrated likelihood
Mixed-Effects Models for the Effects of Partially Observed Covariates
on Dependent Recurrent Events Data - Stephen Rathbun
Keywords:
point process, ecological momentary assessment, estimating equations,
smoking data
Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data with Missing and
Left-Censored Time-Varying Covariates - Ryan C. May, Joseph G. Ibrahim,
Haitao Chu, Stephen R. Cole
Keywords:
Joint Modeling, Detection Limit, HIV, MACS
Evaluating the Effects of Treatment Regimes in the Presence of
Drop-Outs: Application to Depression Data - Yenchih Hsu, Adbus S. Wahed
Keywords:
Dynamic treatment regime, Generalized estimating equations,
Inverse-probability-weighting, Missing data, Two-stage designs
A Broad Framework for Joint Modeling - Geert Molenberghs
Keywords:
incomplete data, longitudinal data, joint modeling
Session 465: Statistical Methods
Chair(s): Guangyu Zhang,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Evaluating Energy Efficiency of Demand-Side Management Programs - Cha-Chi Fan
Keywords:
energy efficiency, demand response, demand-side management,
nonequivalent groups
Methods of Estimation in Random Effects Meta-Regression - Abera Wouhib, Myron J. Katzoff
Keywords:
Meta-regression model, Random effects, Heterogeneity parameter
The Role of Legal Orientation Program in Affecting Immigration Court
Case Processing Times - Zhifen
Cheng
Keywords:
immigration, court, history event
Session 471: Section on Survey
Research Methods - Imputation and Missing Data
Chair(s): Jeffrey
Gonzalez, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Microdata Imputation and Macrodata Implications: Evidence from the Ifo
Business Survey - Christian
Seiler
Keywords:
Business survey, Longitudinal data, micro data, Imputation,
Nonresponse, macro data
Look Again: Editing and
Imputation of SCF Panel Data - Arthur B. Kennickell
Keywords:
Editing, Imputation, Panel data
Generalized Estimating Equation Model for Binary Outcomes with
Covariates Missing by Design - Qixuan
Chen, Myunghee C. Paik
Keywords:
dioxins, estimating equations, jackknife estimator, missing data
Approaches for Handling Missing Sexual Identity Data - HarmoniJoie Noel, Taylor Lewis,
Aaron Maitland, Heather Ridolfo
Keywords:
missing data, imputation, sexual identity
Imputation of Categorical Data with Small Subcategories: Assessing the
Results of Imputing Race in the 2007 - 2008 National Ambulatory Medical
Care Survey (NAMCS) - Elizabeth
Goldberg
Keywords:
imputation, categorical data, IVEware
Evaluation of Improvements to the Imputation Routine for Health
Insurance in the CPS ASEC - Miche
Boudreaux, Joanna Turner, Michael Davern
Keywords:
CPS ASEC, health insurance coverage, imputation
Erosion Analysis with USLE and RUSLE2 - Yang Li, Zhengyuan Zhu
Keywords:
USLE, RUSLE2, erosion, random forest, MARS
Session 514: Optimizing Sample
Designs
Chair(s): Jill Dever, RTI
International
Designing Minimum-Cost
Multi-Stage Sample Designs - Matthias Ganninger
Keywords:
design effects, multi-stage design, costs, minimum
A Generalized Epsem Two-Phase
Design for Domain Estimation - Avinash C. Singh, Rachel Harter
Keywords:
two-phase, self-weighting, EPSEM, domain estimation
Assigning PSUs to a
Stratification PSU - Susan
King, John Schilp, Erik
Bergmann
Keywords:
clustering, integer programming, assignment algorithm, stratification
PSU, Consumer Expenditure Survey, Consumer Price Index
An Enhanced Approach for Solving the Overlap Problem in Dual-Frame RDD
Surveys - Sohyung Park,
Sun-Woong Kim, Michael Traugott, Sang-Kyung Lee
Keywords:
household number, shared number, personal number, person-level weighting
Updating the Measures of Size
of Local Areas Late in the Decade Using
USPS Address Lists - Sylvia
Dohrmann, Lin Li, Leyla K. Mohadjer
Keywords:
USPS, area sample, measure of size (MOS)
Calibrating Non-Probability
Internet Samples with Probability Samples
Using Early Adopter Characteristics - J. Michael Dennis, Charles
DiSogra, Elisa Chan
Keywords:
Calibration, Web surveys, Online panels, Probability-based samples,
Opt-in samples, Internet panels
Nonresponse Follow-Up
Allocation for Domains - Harold
Mantel, Mike Hidiroglou
Keywords:
non-response, follow-up, allocation, domains
Session 577: Measurement Error
and Data Quality
Chair(s): Brian John
Meekins, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Assessment of Measurement Error and Nonresponse Error Using
Respondent-Provided Paradata from Paper Self-Administered
Questionnaires - Heather
M. Schroeder, Russell W. Stark, Ashley Bowers, Roger D.
Goddard, Robin Tepper Jacob
Keywords:
paradata, measurement error, nonresponse error, paper self-administered
questionnaires
Designing Estimators of
Nonsampling Errors in Estimates of Components
of Census Coverage Error - Mary
H. Mulry, Bruce D. Spencer
Keywords:
census omissions, census erroneous enumerations, net census coverage,
nonsampling error
Using Interviewer Observations Related to the Interview Process for
Measurement Error and Nonresponse Error Adjustment - Rachel Anne Orlowski, Ashley
Bowers, Wayne E. Baker
Keywords:
measurement error, nonresponse error, interviewer observations, paradata
Assessing and Adjusting for
Response Error Using a Multi-Phase Survey
Approach in the Residential Energy Consumption Survey - Marilyn Worthy, Katie Joseph
Keywords:
multiphase survey, nonresponse bias, response error, household survey,
RECS
Eliciting Illicit Work: Item Count and Randomized Response Technique
Put to the Test - Antje
Kirchner, Ivar Krumpal, Mark Trappmann, Hagen von Hermanni
Keywords:
Sensitive Questions, Item Count Technique, Randomized Response
Technique, Illicit Work
General-Specific Questions in Survey Research: A Confirmatory Factor
Analysis Approach - Fred
Lorenz, Virginia Lesser, Laura Hildreth, Ulrike Genschel
Keywords:
survey research, part-whole questions, general-specific questions,
serial correlation, structural equation modeling
Session 578: Frames, Coverage
Error, and Optimal Samples
Chair(s): Mandi Yu,
National Cancer Institute
How Large Should a Statistical Sample Be? - Violeta Cruz Menil, Ruili Ye
Keywords:
population size, precision, confidence level, sample estimate
Is Housing Unit Undercoverage
Random? - Timothy
L. Kennel, Xijian Liu
Keywords:
Address Based Sampling, Coverage, Delivery Sequence File, Frame
Creation, Master Address File, Listing
Comparing Cell Phone and Internet Coverage Use in the USA and South
Korea - Eun-Hee Choi,
Sun-Woong Kim, Chan-Hyoung Cho, Mick Couper
Keywords:
Internet, cell phone, landline, communication, activities
RDD Unplugged: Findings from a
Household Survey Using a Cell Overlap
Design - John
Hall,
Barbara Lepidus Carlson
Keywords:
RDD, cell phone, dual-frame, sampling
Goodness of Fit Tests in Dual-Frame Surveys - Yan Lu, Sharon Lohr
Keywords:
dual frame surveys, longitudinal quantities, goodness of fit tests,
simulations
Session 625: Section on Survey
Research Methods - Confidentiality Protection and Optimal Estimation
Chair(s): John Finamore,
National Science Foundation
Variance Estimation for Census
Transportation Planning Products with
Perturbed American Community Survey Data - Jianzhu Li, Tom Krenzke, J.
Michael Brick, David Judkins, Michael D. Larsen
Keywords:
Perturbation, disclosure limitation, successive differences
replication, confidentiality
An Empirical Evaluation of Easily Implemented, Nonparametric Methods
for Generating Synthetic Data Sets - Joerg Drechsler, Jerome P. Reiter
Keywords:
Census, Confidentiality, Disclosure, Imputation, Microdata
An Evaluation Of Bls Noise
Research For The Quarterly Census Of
Employment And Wages - Michael
Yang, Ali Mushtaq, Santanu Pramanik, Fritz Scheuren, Michael Buso,
David Hiles
Keywords:
Disclosure limitation, Cell suppression, Random noise method
A Comparative Assessment of
Disclosure Risk and Data Quality Between
MASSC and Other Statistical Disclosure Limitation Methods - Feng Yu, Neeraja S. Sathe
Keywords:
Statistical Disclosure Limitation, MASSC, PRAM, Random Swapping,
Disclosure Risk, Information Loss
Modeling Aggregates for
Reliability and Confidentiality of Output with
Application to the QCEW Program of BLS - Santanu Pramanik, Avinash C.
Singh, Michael Yang, Fritz Scheuren
Keywords:
Disclosure Control, Small Area Estimation, Synthetic, Perturbation,
output treatment
A New Optimal Estimator of
Population Proportion in Randomized Response
Sampling - Oluseun
Odumade, Sarjinder Singh
Keywords:
Randomized response sampling, Estimation of proportion, Two scrambling
variables, optimal estimator
Estimation of Finite Population
Variance Using Scrambled Responses in
the Presence of Auxiliary Information - Sarjinder Singh, Stephen A.
Sedory, Raghunath Arnab
Keywords:
Randomized Response Sampling, Sensitive Variables, Variance Estimation,
Efficiency, Finite population, Auxiliary information
Session 628: Survey Analysis and
Issues with Data Quality
Chair(s): Brad Edwards,
Westat Inc.
Recursive Partitioning for
Racial Classification Cells - Aaron Gilary
Keywords:
Recursive Partitioning, Stepwise Regression, Multiracial, Modeling
Plotting Likert and Other
Rating Scales - Naomi
B. Robbins, Richard
Heiberger
Keywords:
psychometrics, diverging stacked bar charts, graphics
Methods for Fitting a Markov
Latent Class Analysis for the National
Crime Victimization Survey - Marcus
Berzofsky, Paul P. Biemer, William Kalsbeek
Keywords:
Markov latent class analysis, model assumptions, NCVS, Data Sparseness,
measurement error, classification error
Latent Class Analysis of
Measurement Error in the Consumer Expenditure
Survey - Brian
John
Meekins, Clyde Tucker, Paul P. Biemer
Keywords:
measurement error, latent class, consumer expenditure
Survey Incentive Fees, Microeconomic Data Quality, and Nonresponse - Jesse Bricker
Keywords:
Incentive Fees, Nonresponse, Data Quality
Using Quality Indicators to
Manage Collection and Editing in Business
Surveys - Lingyun
Zhu,
Serge Godbout
Keywords:
Quality indicators, Survey processing, Integrated Business Statistics
Program, Response representativeness
Session
629: Applied Analysis
Chair(s): James Mark Harris, National Agricultural Statistics Service
Bias-Variance and Breadth-Depth Tradeoff in Respondent-Driven Sampling
- Sergiy O. Nesterko,
Joseph Blitzstein
Keywords:
RDS, Volz-Heckathorn, hard-to-reach population, visualization, inference
Using Signal Detection Theory to Verify Performance Standard Setting on
Michigan English Language Proficiency Assessment - Ji Zeng, Joseph A. Martineau
Keywords:
signal detection theory, English language assessment, cut scores
Causal Inference in Transportation Safety Studies: Comparison of the
Potential Outcomes and Causal Bayesian Networks - Vishesh Karwa, Aleksandra
Slavkovic
Keywords:
Causal Inference, Potential Outcomes, Causal Bayesian Networks,
Observational Studies, Transporation Safety, Night Time crash data
Using a Density-Variation/Compactness Measure to Evaluate Redistricting
Plans for Partisan Bias and Electoral Responsiveness - Thomas R. Belin, Heidi J.
Fischer, Corwin Zigler
Keywords:
red-state/blue-state, seats-votes curve, Texas redistricting
controversy, voter registration, Maptitude software, JudgeIt software
Modeling Single-Establishment
Firm Returns to the 2007 Economic Census
- Shawn Klimek, Emin
Dinlersoz
Keywords:
Economic Census, multivariate analysis, paradata, responsive design
Session 664: Design and Analysis
Involving Complex Samples
Chair(s): Ashley Bowers,
University of Michigan
Beyond Simple Descriptive Statistics: Utility of Multivariate
Techniques in Survey Research - Mansour
Fahimi
Keywords:
Multivariate Techniques, Key Drivers, Satisfaction Surveys
Multiple Regression Analysis
with Data from Complex Survey - Esher Hsu
Keywords:
Multiple Regression Analysis, Stratified weighted least squares
estimator, Probability weighted least squares estimator, Quasi-Aitken
weighted least square estimator, Complex Survey, Social Change
A Comparison of Several Methods for Determining the Number of Factors
in Exploratory Factor Analysis - Robert
H. Pearson, Dan Mundfrom, Adam Piccone
Keywords:
Factor Analysis, Multivariate, Simulation, Psychometrics
Modeling High-Dimensional
Survey Data Using Latent Structure Analyses -
Igor Akushevich, Mikhail
Kovtun, Anatoliy Yashin
Keywords:
Multidimensional categorical data, demographic surveys, latent
analysis, health state, Grade of Membership, Latent Class Model
A Noninformative Bayesian Approach to Cluster Sampling - Michael Soma
Keywords:
cluster sampling, two-stage, Bayesian, noninformative
Inference for the Zenga Inequality Index - Matti Langel, Yves Tillé
Keywords:
inequality, sampling, linearization, variance estimation, Gini index,
influence function
Session 665: Weighting and
Estimation
Chair(s): Dan Liao, RTI
International
The Weighting Process Used in
the Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation Series for the National Compensation Survey - Christina Lynn McCarthy, Gwyn R.
Ferguson, Chester Ponikowski
Keywords:
sampling, sample rotation, nonresponse adjustment, benchmarking
Evaluation of the National
Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
Weighting Methodology - Agnes
Waye
Keywords:
weighting, nonresponse, cluster analysis, weight adjustments
Relative Importance of Poverty
and Education in Medical Expenditure
Panel Survey Weighting Adjustment - Sadeq R. Chowdhury, Trena
Ezzati-Rice
Keywords:
MEPS, nonresponse, poststratification, raking, weighting
Estimation and Replicate Variance Estimation of Deciles for the Survey
of Construction - Stephen
James Kaputa, Katherine Jenny Thompson
Keywords:
Median, Modified half-sample, Interpolation, Deciles, Replication,
Variance
Bayesian nonparametric
estimation of finite population quantities in
absence of design information on nonsampled units - Sahar Z. Zangeneh, Robert W.
Keener, Rod Little
Keywords:
Dirichlet process Priors, Mixture models, PPS sampling, Finite
population distribution, Bayesian nonparametric modeling
Potential Impact on Bias and
Variance Due to Frame-to-Population Linkages In Telephone Surveys
- Carol
Pierannunzi, Mohamed Qayad, Pranesh Chowdhury
Keywords:
Sampling, nonsampling error, BRFSS, telephone surveys
Selection of prior
distributions for multivariate small area models
with application to small area health insurance estimates - Ryan Janicki
Keywords:
small area modeling, proper posterior, generalized linear models,
errors-in-variables, mixed models, multivariate analysis
Invited Poster Presentations
Session
186: Invited Oral Poster Presentations
Chair(s): Benmei Liu, National Cancer Institute
Secondary Analysis in GWAS - Huilin
Li, Mitchell Gail
Keywords:
secondary analysis, case-control study, GWAS, maximum likelihood
estimation
A Wavelet-Based Historical Functional Linear Mixed Model for Examining
the Acute Health Effects of Pollution Exposure - Elizabeth Malloy, Brent Coull,
Jeffrey S. Morris, Sara Adar, Helen Suh, Diane Gold
Keywords:
Bayesian methods, Historical functional linear model, Functional data
analysis, Mixed Model, Wavelets
A Bayesian Model for Estimation of Population Proportions - Raymond Okafor, Ugochukwu
Ahamefula Mbata
Keywords:
Estimation, Empirical Bayes, Faculties at Main Campus, Proportions
using Vehicles, Sample Surveys, Traffic Congestion, Undergraduates,
UNILAG, Use of Motor Vehicles
Confidence Intervals for the Ratio of Two Poisson Rates - Yonggang Zhao, Qianqiu Li
Keywords:
Confidence interval, Poisson rate, Bootstrap, Bayesian
Significance Analysis and Statistical Dissection of Variably Methylated
Regions - Andrew Jaffe
Keywords:
variably methylation regions (VMRs), bump finding, multiple testing,
functional data analysis, preprocessing
Genome-Wide Epistasis Screening for Asthma-Associated Traits - Elena S. Gusareva, Jeroen S.
Huyghe, Elena S. Gusareva
Keywords:
eosinophil counts, asthma genes, genome-wide association study,
gene-gene interactions
A New Method for Detecting Associations with Rare Variants for Complex
Disease - Huann-Sheng
Chen, Shunpu Zhang
Keywords:
genetics, complex disease, association, rare variant, next generation
sequencing, epidemiology
Haplotype-Based Association Studies Under Complex Sampling - Daoying Lin, Yan Li
Keywords:
Complex sampling, Weighted EM algorithm, Haplotype, Genetic association
studies, Weighted logistic regression, Case control studies
Session 187: Topic-Contributed
Oral Poster Presentations: Scientific and Public Affairs Committee
Competition
Chair(s): Benmei Liu,
National Cancer Institute
Sparse
Principal Component Analysis (SPCA) of Wheat Microarray Data Identifies
Co-Expressed Genes Differentially Regulated by Cold Acclimation
- Amrit Karki1, Xijin
Ge, Din Chen, Fedora Sutton
Keywords:
microarray, SPCA, Fold Change, preprocessing, expression
Contributed Posters
Session 427: Contributed Oral
Poster Presentations: Section on Survey Research Methods
Chair(s): Benmei Liu,
National Cancer Institute
The Impact of Visual Design in
Survey Cover Letters on Response and Web
Take-Up Rates - William
Mockovak
Keywords:
Cover letter, Web take-up rate, Information mapping, Visual design
Comparison of Variance
Estimates in a National Health Survey - Karen E. Davis, Van Parsons
Keywords:
Sample survey, Variance estimation
Combined Methods for Imputing School Variables in Principal Data Files
- Yan Wang, Matthew
Doyle
Keywords:
School and Staffing Survey, cold-deck imputation, regression impuation,
school nonresponse, data utility, principal data files
Estimating the Bias Resulting from the Exclusion of Cell Phone-Only
Respondents - Burton
Levine, Christine Davies, Bonnie Shook-Sa
Keywords:
RDD, survey, cell phones, dual-frame
Using Isotonic Regression to Estimate Order-Restricted Health
Indicators for the 1997-2006 National Health Interview Survey - Van Parsons
Keywords:
monotonic estimation, complex survey, replication
Overcoming Challenges to Sample Design in Iraq - David Peng
Keywords:
Sampling, Iraq, Post-conflict, Satellite, International
An Overview of Following Rules in Household Panels and Their Effect on
Sample Size - Matthias
Schonlau, Nicole Watson, Martin Kroh
Keywords:
survey, household panel, following rule, sample size
Day-of-Week, Time-of-Year, and Meteorological Effects on Items on a
Local Health Survey - Kevin
J. Konty
Keywords:
survey quality, validity, health surveys, mental health, physical
activity and nutrition, public use microdata
Decomposing the Fraction of Missing Information Into Auxiliary Variable
Contributions for Monitoring Survey Data - Rebecca Andridge
Keywords:
Nonresponse, Auxiliary variable, Imputation
Comparison of Sampling Methods for a School-Based Population - Alana Christie, Barbara Neas
Keywords:
systematic, weighted, school-based, response rate, simulation
The Nonverbal Response Card Method for Soliciting Responses to
Sensitive Questions - David
P. Lindstrom, Megan Klein Hattori
Keywords:
Survey Response Bias, Sensitive Questions
Invited Panels
Session 11: The Role of
Statistics in Comparative Effectiveness Research
Organizer(s):
Elizabeth Zell, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Chair(s): Elizabeth Zell,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Role of Statistics in Comparative Effectiveness Research - Lilly Yue, S. Stanley Young,
Allen Heller, Donald Rubin
Keywords:
causal inference, comparative effectiveness research, administrative
data, observational data
Session 13: Federal Funding for
Statistics in 2011
Organizer(s): Katherine
Bennett Ensor, Rice University
Chair(s): Katherine
Bennett Ensor, Rice University
Federal Funding for Statistics in 2011 - Michelle Dunn, Sastry Pantula
Keywords:
NIH, NCI, NSF, grants, training, funding
Topic Contributed Panel
Session 120: 2020 Census: How Can
the Cost and Complexity of the 2020 Census Be Controlled?
Organizer(s): Sally M.
Obenski, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): Kevin
Deardorff, U.S. Census Bureau
2020 Census: How Can the Cost and Complexity of the 2020 Census Be
Controlled? - Sally M.
Obenski, Jennifer Hunter Childs, James B.
Treat, Frank A. Vitrano
Keywords:
decennial census, complexity, operations, coverage, diversity
Session 121: The National
Children's Study: Expansion of Methods Research and Analysis
Organizer(s): Susan
Schechter Bortner, NORC at the The University of Chicago
Chair(s): Susan Schechter
Bortner, NORC at the The University of Chicago
The National Children's Study: Expansion of Methods, Research, and
Analysis - Jessica
Graber, Margot Brown, Angela DeBello, Martin Barron, Michael D. Sinclair
Keywords:
Children's Health, Longitudinal, Health Outcomes, Recruitment
Session
231: Methods for Inference from Hard-to-Reach Populations
Chair(s): Christopher Johnson, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
Combining Cluster Sampling and
Link-Tracing Sampling to Estimate Totals and Means of Hidden
Populations in Presence of Heterogeneous Probabilities of Links -
Richard Sigman, Martin
Humberto
Felix-Medina
Keywords:
venue-based sampling, cluster sampling, link-tracing network sampling,
hidden population, horvitz-thompson estimator, inference
Round Tables
Session 204: Section on Survey
Research Methods P.M. Roundtable Discussion
Organizer(s): Michael D.
Larsen, The George Washington University
Measurement Error in Survey Paradata - Brady Thomas West
Keywords:
Survey administration, Survey estimation, Data quality, Survey design,
Survey operations
Session 376: Section on Survey
Research Methods P.M. Roundtable Discussion
Organizer(s): Michael D.
Larsen, The George Washington University
Research at the U.S. Census Bureau - Daniel Weinberg
Keywords:
Survey methodology, Record linkage, Confidentiality, Economic surveys,
Adminstrative records, Federal statistical system
Survey Quality Indicator Measures: Response Rates and Alternatives -
Donsig Jang
Keywords:
Paradata, Survey quality measure, R-indicators, Nonresponse bias,
Auxiliary variables
Session 542: Section on Survey
Research Methods P.M. Roundtable Discussion
Organizer(s): Michael D.
Larsen, The George Washington University
The General Social Survey (GSS) and the Methodology for Studying
Societal Change - Tom
W. Smith
Keywords:
Reliability, Validity, Measurent artifacts, Survey methodology,
Societal trends, Social indicators
Continuing Education Course
Session CE_08C: Advanced Topics
in Survey Sampling
Instructor(s): Jae-kwang
Kim, Iowa
State University, Wayne Fuller,
Iowa State
University
Session CE_17C: What
Statisticians Should Know About the American Community Survey
Instructor(s): Deborah Harner
Griffin,
U.S. Census Bureau, Alfredo
Navarro, U.S. Census Bureau
Other Cmte/Business
Session 207200: Section on Survey
Research Methods Business Meeting
Chair(s):
Stephen Cohen, National Science Foundation
Session 207201: Section on Survey
Research Methods Mentoring Workshop
Chair(s): Stephen Cohen,
National Science Foundation
Papers Presented at the 64th Annual
Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research
(AAPOR)
May 12 – 15, 2011, Phoenix, Arizona
How the Order of Response Options in
a Running Tally Can Affect Online Survey Estimates - Tom Wells, Mario Callegaro,
Charles DiSogra
Keywords:
Running tally, constant sum, primacy effects, experiment
Pre-Call Validation of RDD Cell Phone
Numbers A Field Experiment - Tanja Kunz, Marek Fuchs
Keywords:
cell phone survey, RDD, response rates, survey cost, HLR lookup, text
messages
Improving Questionnaire Design of
Establishment Surveys for Field Data Collection - Lorelle Vanno, Jennie Lai,
Teresa (Ye) Jin, Michael W. Link
Keywords:
Use of Passive Electronic Measurement
to Complement More Traditional Data Collection Methods - Anh
Thu Burks, Ana Melgar, Rosemary Holden, Yvonne Olivares, Jeff
Scagnelli, Norm Trussell
Keywords:
electronic measurement, passive measurement, audience measurement,
media behavior
Design Considerations for a
Cross-cultural Enumeration Survey - Teresa (Ye) Jin, Justin T.
Bailey, Kelly Bristol, Michael W. Link
Keywords:
cross-cultural research, telephone surveys
The PAIP Score: A Propensity-Adjusted
Interviewer Performance Indicator - Brady T. West, Robert M. Groves
Keywords:
Interviewer Evaluation, Interviewer Performance, Response Propensity
Modeling
Observational Strategies Associated
with Increased accuracy of Interviewer Observations: Evidence from the
National Survey of Family - Brady T. West, Frauke Kreuter
Keywords:
Interviewer Observations, Auxiliary Variables, Survey Data Collection
The Impact of a Mixed-mode Data
Collection Design on Response and Non-response Bias on a RDD Landline
Telephone Survey - S.
Sean Hu, Carol Pierannunzi, Lina Balluz
Keywords:
Random-digit-dialing, landline telephone survey, mixed-mode survey
design, non-response bias
Concerns about Privacy, Trust in
Government, and Willingness to Use Administrative Records to Improve
the Decennial Census - Eleanor
Singer, Nancy Bates, John Van Hoewyk
Keywords:
Administrative records, trust, privacy, decennial census, attitudes and
behavior
Testing Mail
Notification Strategies for an Internet Response Option in the American
Community Survey
- Mary Frances Zelenak, Mary C. Davis, Rachel Horwitz, Michelle Ruiter,
Jennifer Guarino Tancreto
Keywords:
Internet data collection, notification strategies, self response, ACS
Utilizing Facebook Application for
Disaster Relief: Social Network Analysis of American Red Cross Cause
Joiners -
Jennie W. Lai, John Skvoretz
Keywords:
American Red Cross, disaster relief, Facebook Causes, social movement,
social network analysis
Interviewer Effects in a Small-Scale
Experimental Research Survey of Demographic Questions - Elizabeth Nichols, Jennifer
Hunter Childs, Rolando Rodríguez
Keywords:
Date of birth question; Age confirmation; Interviewer Random Effect
The Toyota Recall
Crisis: Media Impact on Toyota’s Corporate Brand Reputation - David Fan, David Geddes,
Felix Flory
Keywords:
time series, media, opinion, prediction, Toyota
Exploring the Reliability of Behavior
Coding Data - Nathan
Jurgenson, Jennifer Hunter Childs
Keywords:
Reliability, Behavior Coding, Questionnaire Pretesting and Evaluation,
Kappa
Can Your Smartphone Do This: A New
Methodology For Advancing Digital Ethnography - Justin Bailey, Michael W. Link,
E. Nicole Bensky, Lorelle Vanno, Jennie Lai, Karen Benezra, Hala
Makowska
Keywords:
ethnography, mobile phones, panel research
Evaluating the Impact of “Music
Downloads” as Instantly Delivered Contingent Incentives - Kelly L. Bristol, E. Nicole
Bensky, Michael W. Link
Keywords:
Address based sampling, contingent incentives, music downloads, mixed
mode
Redesigning Contact Materials for the
National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) - Douglas Currivan, Joel Kennet,
Dicy Painter, Emilia Peytcheva
Keywords:
contact materials, survey participation, National Survey on Drug Use
and Health, expert review, focus groups
Supplementing Address-Based Sampling
Frames with Physical Addresses of Housing Units with Unlocatable
Mailing Addresses - Bonnie
E. Shook-Sa, Doug Currivan
Keywords:
mailing lists, white pages, frame supplementation procedures, coverage,
in-person surveys, CDS file, No-Stat file
Who’s There? Comparing Respondents
from a Telephone Survey to a Mail Survey - Andrew Zukerberg, Stacey Bielick
Keywords:
Mode, respondent characteristics, education
Outside the Answer Boxes: Messages
from Respondents - Kristin
Stettler, Fran Featherston
Keywords:
coding, questionnaire evaluation, respondent messages, data quality,
data availability, questionnaire design, survey design
Identifying Causes of Verification
Refusals on a Large Nation-Wide Field Study Using a Multilevel Model
- Dustin Williams,
Christina Touarti, Christine Clark, Jason Butler
Keywords:
Telephone verification, refusal, field interviewer performance
Selecting and Monitoring the Workload
for the 2010 Coverage Followup Operation - Elizabeth Krejsa Poehler
Keywords:
2010 Census, within household coverage, workload management
Census 2010 Coverage Followup
Experiment: Mod Q Questionnaire - Timothy D. Stewart
Keywords:
census, telephone interview, coverage, undercount, overcount
Examining Service Quality and Data
Quality in Telephone Interviews - Julia Coombs, Kelly Govern
Keywords:
data quality, service quality, telephone interview, census
Ensuring Data Quality: Monitoring
Accuracy and Consistency Among Telephone Interview Monitors -
Joseph Baker, Claudia
Gentile, Jason Markesich, Shawn Marsh, Rebecca Weiner
Keywords:
monitoring, consistency, training, telephone interviewers, interviewer
behavior, quality control, data quality
Public Attitudes Toward the Homeless
- Robert P. Agans,
Guangya Liu, Mary Jones, Clementina Verjan, Mark Silverbush, William D.
Kalsbeek
Keywords:
Homeless Population, Public Opinion, Los Angeles
Effects of Speech Rate, Pitch, and
Pausing on Survey Participation Decisions - José Benkí, Jessica Broome,
Frederick Conrad, Robert Groves, Frauke Kreuter
Keywords:
Interviewer, telephone, speech, prosody
Data Collection: Sample Member
Responses, Influences, and Perception of Data Security - Tamara L. Terry, McKinlay
Jeannis, Dawn Thomas-Banks
Keywords:
identity theft, data security breaches, public opinion, personally
identifiable information (PII)
Identifying Common Verbatim Errors
Through Use of Field Observations - Christine Clark, Gretchen
McHenry, Dustin Williams, Dicy Painter
Keywords:
Verbatim, field observations, data quality
Using Nonresponse Propensity Scores
to Improve Data Collection Methods and Reduce Nonresponse Bias
- Morgan Earp, Jaki
McCarthy
Keywords:
Nonresponse; Bias; Characteristics; Classification Trees; Propensity
Scores
New Relationship and Marital Status
Questions: A Reflection of Changes to the Social and Legal Recognition
of Same-Sex Couples in the U.S. - Theresa J. DeMaio, Nancy Bates
Keywords:
relationship, marital status, same sex couples, cognitive interviews
An evaluation of the collection and
production of medical condition estimates from the MEPS - Frances M. Chevarley
Keywords:
MEPS, conditions, CAPI, sample design, paradata
Response to Surveys of
High-Profile Topics: The Effects of Media Coverage and Public
Engagement on Response to the National 2009 H1N1 Flu Survey -
Nicholas D. Davis, James
A. Singleton, Lina Balluz
Keywords:
Methodological Challenges in Implementing
Comparative Ethnographic Research Across Race/Ethnic Populations in the
2010 Census: An Asian Case Study - Laurie Schwede
Keywords:
Cross-cultural survey methods, Culture and multiple population
research, 2010 Census, 2010 CPEX evaluation, Census Coverage
Measurement Survey, Ethnographic studies, Qualitative research, Asians,
Chinese, Race
Comparing the Selection of All Household Members to a Subsample of Household Members: Can Less Be More? - Vincent Iannacchione, Bonnie E. Shook-Sa
Keywords:
Developing an Internet Response Mode for the American Community Survey (ACS) - Jennifer Guarino Tancreto, Mary Davis, Mary Frances Zelenak
Keywords:
Do Different Recruitment Methods Reach Different People? - Hyunjoo Park, Lu Liu, M. Mandy Sha, Michelle Yuan
Keywords: