I. Methodology and Applications of Smail Area Estimation
Organizer: David A. Marker, Westat, Inc.
Chair: Wayne A. Fuller, Iowa State University
Indirect Estimators: Definition, Characteristics,
and Recommendations - Wesley L. Schaible, U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics ............... 1
Small Area Estimation for the U.S. National
Health Interview Survey - David A. Marker, Westat, Inc. ...............
11
Small Area Estimation Using Multi-Level Models
- D. Holt and F. Moura, University of Southampton ...............
21
Jackknife Variance Estimation with Imputed
Survey Data - J.N.K. Rao, Carleton University ............... 31
Valid Inferences from Imputed Survey Data
- Robert E. Fay, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 41
Continuous Quality Improvement for Survey Operations:
General Principles and Applications - Paul Biemer and Rachel
Caspar, Researeh Triangle Institute ............... 49
Statistical Process Control in Decennial Census
Industry and Occupation Coding - Michael Mersch, Phil Gbuz,and
Chad Russell, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 58
Evaluating Racial and Ethnic Reporting in the
1990 Census - Nampeo McKenney, Claudette Bennett, Roderick Harrison,
and Jorge del Pinal, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
66
Collecting Health Data on Minority Populations
in a National Survey - James T. Massey, National Center for Health
Statistics; David Judkins and Joseph Waksberg, Westat, Inc.
............... 75
Discussion - Thomas B. Jabine, Statistical
Consultant ............... 85
Sampling for Household Financial Characteristics
Using Frame Information on Past Income - Arthur B. Kennickell and
Douglas A. McManus, Federal Reserve Board ............... 88
Modeling Income in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure
Survey - Geoffrey D. Paulin, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics;
Elizabeth M. Sweet, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 98
Imputation of Item Missing Data in the Health
and Retirement Survey - Steven G. Heeringa, University of Michigan
............... 107
Discussion - Roderick J. A. Little,
University of Michigan ............... 117
Onward Towards a 2000 Census Design: Research
Results - Robert D. Tortora, Susan M. Miskura and Don A. Dillman,
U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 120
What Will the Next Census Cost? The Use of
Cost and Operational Modeling in the Examination of Alternative 2000 Census
Designs - Jay Keller and Carol Van Horn, U.S. Bureau of
the Census ............... 129
Discussion - Norman M. Bradburn, University
of Chicago ............... 138
Discussion - Ivan P. Fellegi, Statistics
Canada ............... 141
I. How Residence Relates to Coverage in the Census
Organizer: Gary Shapiro, U.S. Bureau of the Census
Chair: Elizabeth M. Sweet, U.S. Bureau of the Census
An Empirical Exploration of Residence Rules:
The Living Situation Survey - Laurel Schwede, U.S. Bureau of the
Census ............... 144
Understanding Residence Terms: The Meaning
of Census Terms to Respondents - Eleanor R. Gerber, U.S. Bureau
of the Census ............... 150
The Myth of the Man Under the Bed - Leslie
A. Brownrigg and Peter Wobus, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
156
Coverage Improvement from Experimental Residence
Questions - Anne T. Kearney, Gary M. Shapiro and Lawrence R.
Ernst, U.S. Bureau of the Census; Roger Tourangeau, National Opinion
Research Center ............... 162
Paperless Fax Image Reporting System (PFIRS)
- Errol G. Rowe and Martin V Appel, U.S. Bureau of the Census
............... 168
Three Aspects of CLASIC - John S. Gardenier,
National Center for Health Statistics ............... 173
Coding Major Field of Study - Larry
G. Bobbitt and CD. Carroll, National Center for Education Statistics
............... 177
Using CAPI for the Medicare Health Status Registiy
Reinterview Surveys: Design and Operation - Judith T Lessler, Bartelle;
Frank Mierzwa and Tim Smith, Research Triangle Institute ...............
183
The Impact of Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing
(CAPl) on Interviewer Performance: The CPS Experience - Mick P. Couper,
U.S. Bureau of the Census and University of Michigan; Geraldine Burt,
U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 189
The Effectiveness of Oversampling for Low Income
Populations in the Survey of Income and Program Participation - Tiwanda
M. Allen, Rita J. Petroni and Rajendra P. Singh, U.S. Bureau of
the Census ............... 194
The Challenge of Redesigning the Consumer Price
Index Area Sample - Janet L. Williams and Eugene F. Brown, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics; Gary R. Zion, National Institute of Dental
Research ............... 200
Sampling Prenatal Care Providers from a Frame
of Physicians - William D. Kalsbeek and Martha J. Mancewicz,
University of North Carolina ............... 206
Statistics of Income Partnership Studies: Evaluation
of the Revised Sampling Plan - Paul B. McMahon, Internal Revenue
Service ............... 212
Improving the Stratification of the Bank and
Corporation Sample - Lawrence Gilbert, State of California Franchise
Tax Board ............... 218
A Sampling Standard Undergoes Development:
Reflections on ASTM-E141-91 - C.H. Proctor, North Carolina State
University ............... 224
Comparability Between Items
Reported on the Death Certificate and Informants on the 1993 National Mortality
Followback Survey - Susan G. Queen, National Center for Health
Statistics ............... 227
Reconciling Respondent Reports
and Medicare Claims for National Estimates of Hospital Use - Sally
C. Stearns, Kevin Hayes, and Gary G. Koch, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill; Mary Grace Kovar, National Center for Health
Statistics ............... 232
Survey Research and Response
Bias - Anne G. Scott and Lee Sechrest, University of Arizona
............... 238
Unemployment Rates, Self Selection,
and the CPS Reinterview Program: Further Analyses - Judith M. Tanur
and Jung-Kyu Lee, State University of New York at Stony Brook ...............
244
Data Quality in the 1990 Census
- The Content Reinterview Survey - Kathryn F. Thomas and Tamara
L. Dingbaum, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 250
Estimation of Median Income
for 4-Person Families by State - Robert E. Fay and Charles T.
Nelson, U.S. Bureau of the Census; Leon Litow, U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services ............... 256
Enriching One Sample While Improving
Another: Linking Differentially Stratified Samples of Documents Filed by Exempt
Organizations - James M. Harte and Cecelia H. Hilgert, Internal
Revenue Service ............... 262
The Protection of Confidential
Data Stored in a Sequential Access Statistical Database - E. Noren
and S. Keller-McNulty, Kansas State University ...............
268
Improved Decision Rules in the
Fellegi-Sunter Model of Record Linkage - William E. Winkler, U.S.
Bureau of the Census ............... 274
1992 Census of Agriculture Frame
Development and Record Linkage - Tommy W. Gaulden, Jane D.
Sandusky and Elizabeth Ann Vacca, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
280
Using Response Agreement to
Evaluate Suspect Links on a Longitudinal Survey - Robert M. Bell, RAND
............... 286
Serial Imputation of NHANES III With Mixed
Regression and Hot-Deck Techniques - Trena M. Ezzati -Rice and
Meena Khare, National Center for Health Statistics; Mansour Fahimi
and David Judkins, Westat, Inc. ............... 292
Multiple Imputation of NHANES III - Meena
Khare, National Center for Health Statistics; Roderick J. A. Little,
University of Michigan; Donald B. Rubin, Harvard University; Joseph
L. Schafer, Pennsylvania State University ............... 297
A Comparison of Imputation Techniques in the
Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey - Trena M. Ezzati
-Rice and Meena Khare, National Center for Health Statistics; Donald
B. Rubin, Harvard University; Roderick J. A. Little, University
of Michigan; Joseph L. Schafer, Pennsylvania State University ...............
303
Discussion - Ralph E. Folsom, Research
Triangle Institute ............... 309
Quality of Data Keying for Major Operations
of the 1990 Census - Kent Wurdeman, U.S. Bureau of the Census
............... 312
Effects of a Cognitive Interviewing Approach
on Response Quality in a Pretest for the SIPP - Kent H. Marquis, Jeffrey
C. Moore and Karen Bogen, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 318
Cognitive Aspects of Reporting Cancer Prevention
Examinations and Tests - Seymour Sudman, Richard Warnecke, Timothy
Johnson and Diane O'Rourke, University of Illinois; Andrew M.
Davis, RUSH-Anchor HMO; Jared B. Jobe, National Center for Health
Statistics ............... 324
Effect of Interviewer and Respondent Characteristics
on Reporting of Chronic Conditions - W. Sherman Edwards, Westat,
Inc.; Marc L. Berk, Project HOPE ............... 330
Fabrication During the 1990 Nonresponse Followup
Operation - G. Machell Kindred and Jimmie B. Scott, U.S.
Bureau of the Census ............... 335
Some Theorems Relating Poststratification and
Sample Configuration - Dhiren Ghosh, Statistical Consultant; Andrew
Vogt, Georgetown University ............... 341
Optimizing Sample Allocation for Multiple Response
Variables - M.A. Rahim and S. Curie, Statistics Canada ...............
346
Small Area Estimation - Ayah E. Johnson,
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research ............... 352
Times Series Models for State Labor Force Estimates
- Thomas D. Evans, Richard B. Tiller and Tamara Sue Zimmerman, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 358
Alternative Options for State Level Estimates
in the National Medical Expenditure Survey - Steven B. Cohen and
Jill J. Braden, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research ...............
364
Survey Procedures for Conducting Cognitive
Interviews to Pretest Questionnaires: A Review of Theory and Practice
- Johnny Blair and Stanley Presser, University of Maryland ...............
370
A Process Model to Guide Questionnaire Forms
Redesign - Deborah Stone and Marie van Melis-Wright, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics; Anita Wright, American Institutes for Research
............... 376
Collecting Information from Teenagers: Experiences
from the Cognitive Lab - Barbara J. Stussman, Gordon B. Willis, and
Karen F. Allen, National Center for Health Statistics ...............
382
Analysis of Classification Decisions on the
Consumer Expenditure Survey - David Cantor and Kerry Levin,
Westat, Inc.; Leslie Miller and Paul Hsen, U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics ............... 386
Coding of Respondent Behaviour by Interviewers
to Test Questionnaire Wording - M.J. Burgess and D. Paton, Statistics
Canada ............... 392
Part-Set Cuing in Diary Surveys - Adriana
R. Silberstein, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 398
The Efficacy of Diary Assessments: Using Diary
Assessments to Evaluate Respondents' Level of Performance on Alternative
Diary Forms - Leslie A. Miller and Sharon Krieger, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 404
The Effects of Format Changes on Reporting
in the 1991 Consumer Expenditure Diary Survey - Clyde Tucker, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 410
Labor Force Measurements for the Census 2000
- Philip M. Hauser, University of Chicago; Leo J. Shapiro, Leo
J. Shapiro & Associates ............... 416
Psychological Variables Associated with Respondents'
Sensitivity to the 'Income Question' and a Measure of Their Willingness to
Give Financial Information on Government Surveys - Marie van Melis-Wright,
Deborah Stone and Maxwell Miller, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
............... 422
SIPP Recall Length Decision: An Alternative
to Experimentation - Hertz Huang, Gary Shapiro and Kathleen
Short, U.S. Bureau of the Census; Kevin Cooper, University of Michigan
............... 428
Cross-Sectional Imputation and Longitudinal
Editing Procedures in the Survey of Income and Program Participation -
Steven G. Pennell and James M. Lepkowski, University of Michigan
............... 434
An Assessment of Alternative Data Replacement
Techniques - Nancy A. Mathiowetz, Agency for Health Care Policy
and Research ............... 440
Comparison of Methods for Imputing Missing
Responses in an Establishment Survey - Jill M. Montaquila and Chester
H. Ponikowski, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 446
Alternative Imputation Procedures for Item
Non-response from New Establishments in the Universe - Sandra A. West,
Diem -Tran Kratzke, and Kenneth W. Robertson, U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics ............... 452
The Imputation of Compositional Data -
David Judkins, Katie A. Hubbell, and Amy M. England, Westat,
Inc. ............... 458
Imputation for the Income and Assets Module
of the Medicare Current Beneficiaries Survey (MCBS) - Marianne Winglee,
Lana Ryaboy, and David Judkins, Westat, Inc. ............... 463
Sampling and Estimation for the Homeless Population
- Eric Schindler and Alfredo Navarro, U.S. Bureau of the
Census; Richard Griffin, Chilton Research Services ...............
468
Influence of an Invitation to Answer by Telephone
on Response to Census Questionnaires - Jon Clark and Kirsten
West, U.S. Bureau of the Census; Don Dillman ,Washington State
University ............... 474
Matrix Sampling Designs for the Year 2000 Census
- Alfredo Navarro, U. S. Bureau of the Census; Richard Griffin,
Chilton Research Services ............... 480
A Continuous Measurement Alternative for the
U.S. Census - Charles H. Alexander, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
486
Sampling for the Count in a Census - Cary
T. Isaki, Julie H. Tsay and Yves Thibaudeau, U.S. Bureau of the
Census ............... 492
Improving Models to Estimate Bias in Payroll
Employment Estimates - George Stamas, Diem-Tran Kratzke, and Kirk
Mueller, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 498
National Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP): Nonresponse Study - Douglas Wright and Michael P. Cohen,
National Center for Education Statistics ............... 504
Recall Bias in the National Survey of Fishing,
Hunting, and Wildlife Associated Recreation - Lawrence S. Cahoon, Caroline
A. Riker and Thomas F. Moore, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
508
Multivariate Analysis of Nonresponse in Personal
Visit Surveys - Robert M. Groves and Mick P. Couper, University
of Michigan ............... 514
Nonresponse Adjustment in a Longitudinal Survey
of African Americans - Monica L. Wolford and Myriam Torres,
University of Michigan ............... 520
Item Nonresponse of Medical Provider Utilization
Data in the NMES Institutional Survey - D.E.B. Potter and Jill
J. Braden, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research ...............
526
Multi-Modality Surveys: Assessing the Cost
Effectiveness of Bias Reduction - Michael P. Battaglia and Robert
J. Schmitz, Abt Associates ............... 532
Construction of Adjustment Cells Based on Surrogate
Items or Estimated Response Propensities - I.S. Yansaneh, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics; JL. Eltinge, Texas A&M University ...............
538
Balanced Repeated Replication - Jun
Shao, University of Ottawa ............... 544
Estimating Some Measures of Income Inequality
from Survey Data: An Application of the Estimating Equation Approach -
David A. Binder and Milorad S. Kovacevic, Statistics Canada
............... 550
Bayesian Versus Frequentist Measures of Uncertainty
for Small Area Estimators - A.C. Singh and D.M. Stukel, Statistics
Canada; D. Pfeffermann, Hebrew University ............... 556
Discussion - J.N.K. Rao, Carleton
University ............... 562
Comparing the Think Aloud Interviewing Technique
with Standard Interviewing in the Redesign of a Dietary Recall Questionnaire
- Wendy L. Davis and Theresa J. DeMaio, U.S. Bureau of the Census
............... 565
The Use of Anthropological Interviewing Methods
in Survey Research Pretesting - Dawn R. Von Thurn and Jeffrey
C. Moore, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 571
Living Situation Survey: Methods for Pretesting
Rostering Techniques - Barbara H. Forsyth and James F. Kennedy,
Research Triangle Institute ............... 577
Discussion - Floyd J. Fowler, Jr., University
of Massachusetts at Boston ............... 583
Cognitive Aspects of Designing Statistical
Maps - Monroe Sirken, Douglas Herrmann and Andrew A. White,
National Center for Health Statistics ............... 586
Comparing Advance and Final Estimates: 1990
SOI Corporate Sample - John Czajka, Mathematica Policy Research
Inc.; Susan Hinkins, Internal Revenue Service ............... 592
The Family that Pays Together: Introducing
the Tax Family Concept, with Preliminary Findings - John L. Czajka
and Allen L. Schirm, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. ...............
597
Use of Discriminant Analysis to Classify People
with Mental Disabilities - Eric R. Langlet, Statistics Canada ...............
603
Estimation and Analysis of Desired Family Size
with WFS Data - Cam-Loi Huynh, University of Manitoba ...............
609
Census Coverage Measurement Methodology Research:
Past and Present - Mary H. Mulry, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
617
Results from the 1990 Search/Match Operation
- Susan C. Wajer, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 623
Analysis of Census Omissions: Preliminary Results
- Christopher L. Moriarity, National Center for Health Statistics;
Danny R. Childers, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 629
Coverage of Housing in the 1990 Decennial Census
- Danny R. Childers, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 635
A Multivariate Analysis of the Census Omission
of Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites, Blacks, Asians and American Indians:
Evidence from Small Area Ethnographic Studies - Manuel de la Puente,
U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 641
Sampling Errors in the Integrated System for
Survey Analysis (ISSA) - Guillermo Rojas and Alfredo Aliaga,
Macro International ............... 647
Recent Developments in PC CARP - William
J. Kennedy, Ouhong Wang and Wayne A. Fuller, Iowa State University
............... 654
Recent Developments and Future Plans for SUDAAN
- Babubhai V. Shah and Beth G. Barnwell, Research Triangle Institute
............... 657
GES: An Estimation System in Development at
Statistics Canada - Hyunshik Lee, Mike Hidiroglou and Victor
Estevao, Statistics Canada ............... 662
Generalized Variance Functions for the Schools
and Staffing Surveys - Sameena Salvucci, Synectics for Management
Decisions, Inc.; Glenn Galfond, Price Waterhouse; Steven Kaufman,
National Center for Education Statistics ............... 669
A Bootstrap Variance Estimator for the Schools
and Staffing Survey - Steven Kaufman, National Center for Education
Statistics ............... 675
Adjusting for Nonresponse Bias of Correlated
Items Using Logistic Regression - Pao-Sheng Shen, and Robin
Fisher, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 681
Comparisons of School Locale Setting: Self-Reported
Versus Assigned - Frank Johnson, National Center for Education
Statistics ............... 686
The Accuracy of Teachers' Self-Reports on their
Postsecondary Education - Bradford Chaney, Westat, Inc. ...............
692
Characteristics of Nonrespondents to the 1990-91
Schools and Staffing Survey - Wray Smith and Ramal Moonesinghe,
Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc.; Kerry Gruber, National
Center for Education Statistics ............... 698
1990 Household Sample Redesign - Preston
Jay Waite, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 704
Results from the Current Population Survey
CATI Phase-in Project - Harland H. Shoemaker, Jr., U.S. Bureau
of the Census ............... 710
Research Studies for the Labour Force Survey
Sample Redesign - M.P. Singh, J. Gambino and N. Laniel, Statistics
Canada ............... 715
Market Testing in British Government Household
Surveys - Robert Barnes, OPCS-UK ............... 721
Short-Term Changes to the CPS Composite Estimator
in January 1994 - Patrick J. Cantwell and Lawrence R. Ernst,
U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 724
Mode Effects in a Survey of Medicare Prostate
Surgery Patients - Floyd J. Fowler, Jr., Anthony M. Roman and Zhu
Xiao Di, University of Massachusetts at Boston ............... 730
Data Quality Issues in a Multi-Mode Census:
Results from the Mail and Telephone Mode Test (MTMT) - Nancy Bates,
U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 736
Results from the National Crime Victimization
Survey (NCVS) CATI Experiment - Miriam D. Rosenthal and David
L. Hubble, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 742
Long Term Retention of Sample Members Under
Automated Self-Response Data Collection - Richard J. Rosen, Richard
L. Clayton and Lynda L. Wolf, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ...............
748
New Approaches to Controlling Response Error
in Establishment Universe and Sample Data - George S. Werking, Patricia
M. Getz and Richard L. Clayton, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
............... 753
The Effect of Weight Trimming on Nonlinear
Survey Estimates - Frank J. Potter, Research Triangle Institute
............... 758
Models for Smoothing Post-Stratification Weights
- Laura C. Lazzeroni, University of California at Los Angeles; Roderick
J.A. Little, University of Michigan ............... 764
Comparison of Alternative Family Weighting
Methods for the National Health Interview Survey - Michael Ikeda, U.S.
Bureau of the Census ............... 770
Regression Weighting for Multiphase Forest
Service Samples - F. Jay Breidt and Wayne A. Fuller, Iowa
State University ............... 776
The Role of Weights in Multivariate Analyses
of the NCVS - Sharon Lohr, Arizona State University; Joanna
Liu, Unisys Corporation ............... 781
Quality Profile for the American Housing Survey
- Rameswar P. Chakrabarty, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
786
The Biasing Effects of Scale-Checking Styles
on Response to a Likert Scale - Hershey H. Friedman, Brooklyn College,
CUNY; Paul J. Herskovitz, College of Staten Island, CUNY; Simcha
Pollack, St. John's University ............... 792
Use of Multiple Comparison Procedures in the
Design and Analysis of Year 2000 Census Research Studies - Henry F.
Woltman, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 796
Variance Estimation in the CPS Overlap Test
- Robin Fisher and Jenny Thompson, U.S. Bureau of the Census;
Edwin Robison and Michael Welch, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
............... 802
Estimation of Variance Components for the U.S.
Consumer Price Index via Gibbs Sampling - Robert M. Baskin, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 808
Variances for Models Using 'Aged' Data
- John Paul Sommers, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research ...............
814
Components of Variance and Nonresponse Adjustment
for the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey - David Judkins and
Annie Lo, Westat, Inc. ............... 820
1992 Census of Agriculture Variance Estimation
- Richard Griffiths, David Hornick, Inez Chen, and Tony Eleftherakis,
U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 826
Self-Proxy Response Status and Quality of Cigarette-Related
Information - Donna Eisenhower, John Hail and Randy Brown, Mathematica
Policy Research, Inc. ............... 832
Survey Topic Involvement and Nonresponse Bias
- Brian A. Kojetin, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; Eugene Borgida
and Mark Snyder, University of Minnesota ............... 838
Nonresponse Bias from a Survey of Hospices
and Home Health Agencies - Esther Hing, National Center for Health
Statistics ............... 844
Nonresponse Prompting Behavior in a Monthly
Establishment Survey - Richard L. Clayton, Richard J. Rosen and
Thomas B. Rubino, Jr., U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ...............
850
Imputing Price as Opposed to Revenue
in the EIA-782 Petroleum Survey - Pedro J. Saavedra and Michael
Errecart, Macro International, Inc.; Paula Weir, U.S. Energy Information
Agency ............... 855
Generalized Variance Functions for the Current
Employment Statistics Survey - Steve Woodruff, U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics ............... 860
Quantile Variance Estimators in Complex Surveys
- Alan Dorfinan and Richard Valliant, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
............... 866
A Bootstrap Strategy for Enhancing the Confidence
Interval Estimation of Small Samples - Chih-Chin Ho, Internal Revenue
Service ............... 872
Survival Analysis for the Survey of Income
and Program Participation - I-li Lu and Lynn Weidman, U.S.
Bureau of the Census ............... 877
A Study of Panel Effects in Random Digit Dialing
(RDD) Studies - M. Fahimi, D. Maklan, D. Morganstein and M.
Wilson, Westat, Inc. ............... 883
Change over Time: Observational State, Missing
Data, and Repeated Measures in the Grade of Membership Modell - Max
A. Woodbury, Larry S. Corder, and Kenneth G. Manton, Duke University
............... 888
Estimating Time Series Models for Emergency
Room Episodes Involving Drugs - Charles K. Fairchild and Richard
E. Gruberg, CSR, Incorporated; Arthur L. Hughes, National Institute
on Drug Abuse ............... 892
Membership in a Linked Panel of Individual
Tax Returns: Review and Results - Susan C. Hostetter, Internal
Revenue Service ............... 898
Variability in the Sampling Weights in the
National Health Interview Survey-Causes, Implications, and Strategies
- Steven L. Botman, National Center for Health Statistics ...............
904
A Regression Analysis of NCHS Longitudinal
Data - Jai W. Choi, National Center for Health Statistics ...............
910
Moving Beyond Nonmetropolitan as a Definition
of Rural America - Jill J. Braden and Karen Beauregard, Agency
for Health Care Policy and Research ............... 915
Markov Models for Longitudinal Data from Complex
Samples - Laurel A. Beckett, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's; Dwight
B. Brock, National Institute on Aging; Paul A. Scherr, Centers
for Disease Control; Carlos Mendes de Leon, Yale University ...............
921
Comparision of Traditional and Modified Waksberg
- Charlene Smith and Emma L. Frazier, Centers for Disease Control
............... 926
I. Approaches to Improving Data Analysis
Chair: Stephanie Shipp, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Standard Errors of Usual Intake Quantiles
- Anthony B. An, Alicia L. Carriquiry and Wayne A. Fuller, Iowa
State University ............... 932
The Intrahousehold Communications Study: A
Typology of Family Cohesion - Leslie A. Miller and Clyde Tucker,
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 936
The Intrahousehold Communications Study: Family
Cohesion and the Level of Knowledge about Expenses - Clyde Tucker and
Leslie Miller, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 942
Factors Associated With Proxy Knowledge of
Employment-Related Information - Paul A. Mullin, U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics; Bruce E. Tonn, Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...............
948
Family Unit Constructs, Dynamics, and Analysis
in the Household Component of the NMES - Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Steven
B. Cohen and Ayah E. Johnson, Agency for Health Care Policy and
Research ............... 954
An Experimental Comparision of Alternative
24-Hour Diet Recall Questionnaire Protocols for Children - Karin A.
Mack, Johnny Blair and Stanley Presser, University of Maryland
............... 960
The Impact of Sample Design on Estimates of
Demographic Behavior - Joan R. Kahn, Hsiao-ye Yi and Johnny
Blair, University of Maryland ............... 965
The Navajo/Hopi Land Dispute and the Boundaries
of Methodology - Frederic I. Solop, Northern Arizona University
............... 971
Exit Polling Hispanic Voters in Texas and California:
1984-92 - Robert R. Brischetto, Southwest Voter Research Institute;
Karol P. Krotki, Temple University ............... 976
A Heirarchy of List-Assisted Stratified Telephone
Sample Design Options - Clyde Tucker, and Robert J. Casady,
U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics; James Lepkowski, University of
Michigan ............... 982
Is Value Added by Adjusting for Duplicates
in a Population Frame? - Jason S. Lee, U.S. General Accounting
Office ............... 988
Improving Survey Response and Coverage Rates
Through Multi Modality Surveys - Michael P. Battaglia and Andrea
Hassol, Abt Associates, Inc. ............... 993
Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
in a Study of Knowledge About the Holocaust - Katherine Bischoping,
York University ............... 999
Conducting Non-Traditional Data Collection:
Taking Videotaped Child Development Instruments Out of the Lab and Into the
Field - Susan Sprachman and George J. Carcagno, Mathematica
Policy Research, Inc.; Geoff Good,nan, Columbia University ...............
1004
Question Answering Strategies in Agricultural
Surveys - Jaki S. Stanley, National Agricultural Statistics Service
and Catholic University of America ............... 1010
Enhancing Compliance with Record-Keeping Behavior
in a Household Survey - Maria Elena Sanchez, Agency for Health
Care Policy and Research ............... 1015
Research on the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes
by Individuals - Theresa J. DeMaio, Susan Ciochetto and Wendy
L. Davis, U.S. Bureau of theCensus ............... 1021
Preliminary Field Results of an Alternative
Measurement Design for the Survey of Income and Program Participation
- Karen Bogen, Nola G. Krasko, Jeffrey C. Moore and Kent H. Marquis,
U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 1027
Problems with Question Wording by Age of Respondent
- Sandra L. Edwards, University of Utah ............... 1032
Increasing Physician Survey Response Rates
Without Biasing Survey Results - Lorayn Olson, Mindy Schneiderman and
Ruth V. Armstrong, American Medical Association ............... 1036
Mode Effects of Nonresponse Follow-up in an
Establishment Setting - Young Chun, Richard Devens, Gordon Mikkelson,
and James Yule, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ...............
1042
Understanding the Standardized/Non-Standaidized
Interviewing Controversy - Paul Beatty, University of Michigan
............... 1048
NOpinion and Linkage: The Relationship of Survey
Non-Attitudes to Public Opinion's Effect on Govemment Policy -
Howard Eaton, Jr., Yale University ............... 1054
How the Memorability of Events Affects Frequency
Judgments - Frederick Conrad and Erin Cashman, U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics; Norman Brown, University of Alberta ...............
1058
The Effect of Regularity on the Accuracy of
Reporting of Medical Tests - Diane O'Rourke, Timothy Johnson, Seymour
Sudman and Richard Warnecke, University of Illinois; Jared B.
Jobe, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 1064
The Impact of Callbacks on Survey Estimates
in an Annual RDD Survey - Daniel M. Merkle, D.S. Howard and Associates;
Sandra L. Bauman and Paul J. Lavrakas, Northwestern University
............... 1070
Discussion - Jason S. Lee, U.S.
General Accounting Office ............... 1076
New CASIC Technologies at the U.S. Census
Bureau - Martin V. Appel and William L. Nicholls II, U.S.
Bureau of the Census ............... 1079
Field Coding Complex Data in CAPI: An Investigation
of the Use of Database Search Procedures to Identify and Code Medical Providers
in a Household Survey - Maria Elena Sanchez, Agency for Health
Care Policy and Research; Carmen J. Vincent, Westat, Inc. ...............
1085
Application of Paired Comparison Methodology
in Measuring Canadians' Forest Values - Keith Neuman, Corporate
Research Associates; Barry G. Watson, Environics Research Group, Limited
............... 1091
The Intrahousehold Communications Study: Estimating
the Accuracy of Proxy Responses at the Dyadic Level - Brian
A. Kojetin and Leslie A. Miller, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
............... 1095
Effects of Incentives in a Multi-Modal Survey
of Elites: Findings from the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty -
Sameer Abraham and Bob Johnson, National Opinion Research Center
............... 1101
The Last-Birthday Selection Method & Within-Unit
Coverage Problems - Paul J. Lavrakas and Sandra L. Bauman, Northwestern
University; Daniel M. Merkle, D.S. Howard & Associates ...............
1107
Sampling Individuals Within Households in Telephone
Surveys - Gosta Forsman, University of Linkoping ...............
1113
Within-Household Selection: Is Anybody Listening?
- Kathleen Carr and Joan Hertvik, Ohio State University ...............
1119
Psychological Variables Associated with Respondents'
Sensitivity to Income Questions - A Preliminary Analysis - Marie van
Melis-Wright and Deborah Stone, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
............... 1124
A Post-Election Bandwagon Effect? - Comparing
National Exit Poll Data with a General Population Survey - Robert H.
Prisuta, American Association of Retired Persons ............... 1130
Some Experiments on Using a Projective Technique
to Measure Stereotypes and Compare Them Cross-Culturally - G.
Ray Funkhouser, National University of Singapore ............... 1136
Before the Pretest: Question Development Strategies
- Steven Blixt and Jennifer Dykeina, University of Michigan
............... 1142
Utilizing Focus Groups in the Final Stages
of Questionnaire Design - Susan Schechter, Deborah Trunzo and P.
Ellen Parsons, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 1148
Predictions of the Bush-Clinton-Perot Presidential
Race from the Press - David P. Fan, University of Minnesota ...............
1154
Who Misled Whom? The Polls and the Voters in
the 1992 British Election - Roger Jowell, Barry Hedges, Peter Lynn,
Graham Farrant, and Anthony Heath, Social and Community Planning
Research ............... 1160
Religion and Support for Democracy in the Old
and New Bundeslander - Allan L. McCutcheon, University of Delaware
............... 1166
A Meta-Analysis of Soviet Survey Research Methods
- Irina V. McKeehan, Columbia University ............... 1172
Evaluating Numeric and Verbal Labels for Response
Scales - Colm A. O'Muircheartaigh, George D. Gaskell and Daniel
B. Wright, London School of Economics ............... 1178
An Analysis of Response Patterns to the Ten-Point
Scalometer - Tom W. Smith, National Opinion Research Center ...............
1183
Measuring Interviewer Effects on Self-Reports
from Homeless Persons - Timothy P. Johnson and Jenniffer A.
Parsons, University of Illinois ............... 1189
Gender and Response Effects in a Pre-Election
Poll: Illinois 1992 - Joan M. Phillips, University of Illinois;
Richard Schuldt, Sangamon State University ............... 1195
Group Gender Composition Effects in Gender-Role
Attitude Measurement: Two Failures to Replicate - Joel M. Savell,
U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences ...............
1201
He Said/She Said. Vote Choice in the 1992 Presidential
Election - Respondent/Interviewer Gender Interaction Effects in Pre-Election
Polling - Janice Ballou, Rutgers University ............... 1205
Public Opinion and the 1992 Presidential Debates:
Upsetting and Reinforcing Predispositions - Ken Winneg and Kristen
L. Conrad, Chilton Research Services ............... 1210
Predictions of Consumer Confidence/Sentiment
from the Press - David P. Fan, University of Minnesota ...............
1216
Expenditure Questions that Conform to Consumption
Patterns - Theodore Downes-Le Guin, RAND; Sidistinah Achmad,
University of Indonesia ............... 1222
Results from a National Survey of American
Economic Literacy - William B. Walstad, University of Nebraska;
Max Larsen, The Gallup Organization ............... 1226
Pre-Election Polls and Their Positive Roles
in the Construction of Electoral Meaning - Xinshu Zhao and Glen
L. Bleske,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...............
1231
The Non-Solicitation Statement: A Methodological
Consideration for Survey Introductions - William J. Gonzenbach and
Patrick Jablonski, University of Alabama ............... 1236
The Motivational Basis of Attendance at Focus
Groups and its Effect on Participant Attitudes - Peter Tuckel, Hunter
College; Elaine Leppo and Barbara Kaplan, In Vision Inc. ...............
1241
Higher Education and TQM: Needs, Caveats, and
Opportunities for 'Employee Surveys' - Walton H. Owens, Jr., Clemson
University ............... 1247
Research on the Effectiveness of Olympic Advertising
- Horst Stipp, National Broadcasting Company, Inc. ...............
1251
Response Rates and Response Content in Mail
vs. Face-to-Face Surveys - Maria Krysan, Howard Schuman, Lesli Jo Scott,
and Paul Beatty, University of Michigan ............... 1256
Research on Sources of Undercoverage Within
Households - Elizabeth Martin and Manuel de la Puente, U.S.
Bureau of the Census ............... 1262
A New Method of Predicting Voting Behavior
- Janet A. Hoek and Phillp I. Gendall, Massey University ...............
1268
CAPI Training: Where Do We Go From Here? -
Mark S. Wojcik and Edwin Hunt, National Opinion Research Center
............... 1274
Quality Management Approach to Keystroke
Verification - Robert F. Bailey, Robert Miller and Howard Speizer,
National Opinion Research Center ............... 1280
Evaluating Dual Frame Samples and Advance Letters
as a Means of Increasing Response Rates - Michael W. Traugott and
Kenneth Goldstein, University of Michigan ............... 1284