Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section, American Statistical Association (1999)

Invited Papers by Topic

1. Census Design: Reports of Two Panels of the Committee on National Statistics
Organizer: Michael L. Cohen, Committee on National Statistics
Chair: Martha Farnsworth Riche

The Activities and Findings of the Panel on Alternative Census Methodologies - Keith Rust ............... 1

The Panel on Future Census Methods - Benjamin King ............... 11

Discussion - Barbara Bailar ............... 16

Discussion - Donald Ylvisaker ............... 17

 

2. Current Topics in Justice Statistics
Organizer: Ann Coker, University of South Carolina
Chair:
David I. Cantor, Westat

Comparing Multilevel and Single-Level Negative Binomial Regression Models of Personal Crimes: Evidence from the National Crime Victimization Survey - Andromachi Tseloni ............... 19

 

3. The Changing Face of CASM Research in the Coming Decade: Strengthening the Capabilities of Cognitive Research Methods in Questionnaire Design Research
Organizer/Chair: Susan Schechter, National Center for Health Statistics

A Comparison of Cognitive Interviewing, Expert Review, and Behavior Coding: What Do They Tell Us? - Gordon B. Willis, Susan Schechter, and Karen Whitaker ............... 28

Feasibility of Using CAPI/CATI Interviewers to Conduct Cognitive Interviews during Survey Field Tests - Paul A. Mullin ............... 38

Two Sides of a Single Coin? Dimensions of Change Suggested in Different Seffings - Luann Moy and Linda Stinson ............... 44

 

4. Outliers in Sample Surveys
Organizer: Hyunshik Lee, Westat
Chair: Yahia Ahmed, Internal Revenue Service

Simple and Robust Estimators for Sampling - Beat Hulliger ............... 54

Stratum Jumpers: Can We Avoid Them? - Louis-Paul Rivest ............... 64

Downweighting Influential Clusters in Surveys, with Application to the 1990 Post-Enumeration Survey - Thomas R. Belin, Nathaniel Schenker, and Alan Zaslavsky ............... 73

Discussion - Hyunshik Lee ............... 83

 

5. Statistics and Privacy in the New Millennium
Organizers:
Gerald Gates, United States Bureau of the Census; Wendy Alvey, United StatesBureau of the Census; Thomas B. Jabine, National Academy of Sciences
Chair: Katherine K. Wallman, Office of Management and Budget

Statistics and Privacy in the New Millennium: Continuing the Dialogue for Increased Access to Research Data - Stephen E. Fienberg ............... 86

Statistics and Privacy in the New Millennium-External Forces - Gerald W. Gates ............... 89

 

6. The Role of Statistics in Understanding Price Indices
Organizer: Alan H. Dorfman, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair: James E. Gentle, George Mason University

Uses of Models in the Estimation of Price Indices: A Review - Richard Valliant ............... 94

 

7. Handling Incomplete Data in Highly Multivariate Data Sets
Organizer: Thomas Belin, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Donald Rubin, Harvard University

Analysis of Incomplete High-Dimensional Multivariate Normal Data Using a Common Factor Model - Juwon Song and Thomas R. Belin ............... 103

 

8. Nearest Neighbor Imputations in Surveys
Organizer/Chair: Jiahua Chen, University of Waterloo

Theory and Application of Nearest Neighbor Imputation in Census 2000 - Robert E. Fay ............... 112

Jackknife Variance Estimation for Nearest Neighbor Imputation - Jiahua Chen and Jun Shao ............... 122

Estimation with Nearest Neighbor Imputation at Statistics Canada - Eric Rancourt ............... 131

 

Contributed Papers by Topic

1. Redefining Cognitive Research for Establishment Surveys
Organizer: Elizabeth M. Nichols, United States Bureau of the Census
Chair: Stanley Freedman, Energy Information Administration

Earnings Concepts and Data Availability for the Current Employment Statistics Survey: Findings from Cognitive Interviews - Karen L. Goldenberg and Jay Stewart ............... 139

Test of an Appraisal Method for Establishment Survey Questionnaires - Barbara H. Forsyth, Kerry Levin, and Sylvia K. Fisher ............... 145

 

2. Survey Design and Redesign
Chair: Sarah Nusser, Iowa State University

Fundamental Flaws in Designing a Food Consumption Survey - Peng T. Liu ............... 150

Survey Design Challenges in Sampling Recently Diagnosed Cancer Survivors - Maxine Denniston, Donna Brogan, Frank Baker, Joseph Dye, and Danette Hann ............... 153

Census 2000: Developing a Traditional Census Plan - Fay F. Nash, Laureen H. Moyer, and Herbert F. Stackhouse ............... 158

The Canadian Retail Commodity Survey - Marie Brodeur, HéLène Bérard, and Martin St-Pierre ............... 163

Data Collection Issues Related to Implementing the Redesigned Current Employment Statistics Survey - Richard J. Rosen, Christopher D. Manning, Louis J. Harrell, Jr., and Douglas A. Skuta ............... 169

Redesign of the Monthly Survey of Manufacturing - Ritu Kaushal, Mark Majkowski and Steven Thomas ............... 175

The Impact of Changes in the Current Population Survey on Time-in-Sample Bias and Correlations between Rotation Groups - Khandaker A. Mansur and Harland H. Shoemaker, Jr ............... 180

 

3. Survey Research at the Intersection of Statistics and Cognitive Psychology
Organizer/Chair:
Monroe Sirken, National Center for Health Statistics

Cognitive Research for the Design of Statistical Rate Maps - Linda W. Pickle and Douglas J. Herrmann ............... 186

The Use of Cognitive Laboratory Interviews for Estimating Production Survey Costs and Respondent Burden - Rachel A. Casper and Paul P. Biemer ............... 192

 

4. Topics in Sample Design I
Chair: Victoria Albright, Westat

A Modification of Poisson Sampling - Dhiren Ghosh and Andrew Vogt ............... 198

Sampling from Existing Samples - Thomas Krenzke, Keith Rust, and Leyla Mohadjer ............... 200

A Simulation Comparing Sampling Techniques for Estimating the Use of Preventive Care - Kris Moore, Dwight Stephens, and Scott Burk ............... 206

Issues with Prospective Sampling from a Sampling Frame with Fluctuations Across Time - Margaret Byron and Jun Liu ............... 210

 

5. Multilevel Models Applied to Survey Data
Organizers: Robert Johnson, Abt Associates, Inc.; John Hoffmann, Brigham Young University
Chair: John Hoffmann, Brigham Young University

Individual's Mixed Growth Track Using Multilevel Structural Equation Model - See-Heyon Jo ............... 215

The National Treatment Improvement Evaluation Study: Multilevel Reanalysis of Treatment Outcomes - Robert Orwin, Ronaldo Iachan, Bruce Ellis, and Chuck Wolters ............... 221

Adolescent Cigarette Use: Effects of School Quality and Student Parental Involvement - Robert A. Johnson ............... 227

 

6. Estimation and Weighting in Surveys
Chair: Paul S. Levy, University of Illinois, Chicago

The Horvitz-Thompson Estimator in Population Based Establishment Sample Surveys - Monroe Sirken and Iris Shimizu ............... 233

Estimating the Number of Distinct Valid Signatures in Initiative Petitions - Rubén A. Smith-Cayama and David R. Thomas ............... 238

Redesign of the Survey of Constrnction Permit Sample Estimation Procedure - Katherine J. Thompson, Angela M. Rekowski, and Lynn M. Imel ............... 244

Tabulation Splits for Firms with Multiple Kind-of-Business Activity in the Retail Trade Surveys - Carol S. King and Latasha I. Austin ............... 250

On the Weight Share Method for Panel Household Surveys - Takis Merkouris ............... 255

Examining the Alternative Regression Weighting for the National Survey of College Graduates - Elizabeth T. Huang, John M. Finamore, Patrick E. Flanagan, and Thomas F. Moore ............... 261

 

7. Microdata Modification for Disclosure Control: Theory and Applications
Organizer:
Paul B. Massell, United States Bureau of the Census
Chair:
Stephen Roehrig, Carnegie Mellon University

Disclosure Control Methods in the Public Release of a Microdata File of Small Businesses - David MacNeil and Stuart Pursey ............... 267

Disclosure Control Strategy for the Release of Microdata in the Canadian Survey of Labor and Income Dynamics - Christian Nadeau, Éric Gagnon, and Michel Latouche ............... 273

Deterministic Modifications of Microdata: Balancing Disclosure Risk vs. Information Loss - Paul B. Massell ............... 279

 

8. Sampling Frames and Coverage
Chair: Donald Camburn, Research Triangle Institute

Constructing the Census 2000 Address List - Robin A. Pennington and Miriam D. Rosenthal ............... 285

Investigating Potential Birth Companies for the Annual Capital Expenditures Survey - Marie C. Stetser, Ana Rodriguez, and Amy M. Newman-Smith ............... 290

Evaluating the Use of the Master Address File for the American Community Survey - Jennifer Olejownik and Cliff Loudermilk ............... 296

Urban Sampling Frames Using City Directories - David W. Smith and Jennifer J. Thompson ............... 302

Creating a Frame of Newly Constructed Units for Household Surveys - Bridgett Bell, Leyla Mohadjer, Jill Montaquila, and Lou Rizzo ............... 306

A Methodology for Sampling Households Late in a Decade - Jill Montaquila, Bridgett Bell, Leyla Mohadjer, and Lou Rizzo ............... 311

 

9. Data Quality in Surveys
Chair: Elizabeth Zell, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Using Data and Time Stamps to Detect Interviewer Falsification - John M. Bushery, Jennifer W. Reichert, Keith A. Albright, and John C. Rossiter ............... 316

Measuring Data Quality in the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances - Arthur B. Kennickell ............... 321

Relationship Between Data Quality and Collection Date in the Consumer Price Index Housing Survey - Shawn Jacobson ............... 327

Under- and Over- Reporting in a Food Frequency Questionnaire - Julia L. Bienias ............... 333

 

10. Topics in Sample Design II
Chair: Trena M. Ezzati-Rice, National Center for Health Statistics

Adaptive Cluster Double Sampling - Martin H. Felix-Medina and Steven K. Thompson ............... 339

Incomplete Adaptive Cluster Sampling Design - Chang-Tai Chao and Steven K. Thompson ............... 345

Allocation to Strata When Sample Selection is Through Screening a Larger Sample - K. P. Srinath ............... 351

Application of the Chromy Allocation with Pareto Sampling - Pedro J. Saavedra ............... 355

Median Balanced Sampling Design - Yan Liu and Fritz Scheuren ............... 359

 

11. Analysis of Data from Complex Sample Surveys
Organizer/Chair:
Jill M Montaquila, Westat

Weight Trimming in a Random Effects Model Framework - Michael R. Elliott and Roderick J. A. Little ............... 365

Substance Abuse in States: A Methodological Report on Model Based Estimates from the 1994-1996 National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse - Ralph Folsom, Babu Shah, and Akhil Vaish ............... 371

 

12. Topics in Conducting Telephone Surveys
Chair: Charles A. DiSogra, Freeman, Sullivan & Company

Evaluation of the Use of Data on Interruptions in Telephone Service - J. Michael Brick, Ismael Flores-Cervantes, Kevin Wang, and Tom Hankins ............... 376

Bias from Excluding Households without Telephones in Random Digit Dialing Surveys: Results of Two Surveys - John Hall, Genevieve Kenney, Gary Shapiro, and Ismael Flores-Cervantes ............... 382

A Comparison and Evaluation of Two Survey Data Collection Methodologies: CATI vs. Mail - Paula Weir, Sherry Ben, and Benita O'Colmain ............... 388

The Effects of Telephone Introductions on Cooperation: An Experimental Comparison - Nileeni Meegama and Johnny Blair ............... 394

Further Analysis of Telephone Call History Data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System - Dawn M. Odom and William D. Kalsbeek ............... 398

 

13. Public-Use Data, Confidentiality, and Technology in Surveys
Chair: David W Smith, University of Oklahoma

Release of Public Use Microdata Files for NPHS? Mission partially accomplished! - Yves Béland ............... 404

New Research Opportunities - Negasi Beyene, John Horm, and Deanna Dick ............... 410

Inverse Sampling Algorithm for NHIS Confidentiality Protection - Susan Hinkins, Van Parsons, and Fritz Scheuren ............... 415

Counter Examples to the New EIA/USBC Confidentiality Auditing Method - Gordon Sande ............... 421

Business Objects and the Corporate Metadata Repository - Gregory J. Lestina, Jr. and Daniel W. Gillman ............... 427

An Automated System for Survey Operations and Data Collection in a Complex Health Survey - Meena Khare and Carolyn L. Petty-Martin ............... 432

A User-Centered Contribution to Redesigning Data Collection Systems - Kent Marquis, Heather Tedesco, Richard Hoffman III, Elizabeth Murphy, Renate Roske-Hofstrand, Lelyn Saner, Susan Ciochetto, and Chanda Harris ............... 438

 

14. Methods and Results for the 1998 Census Dress Rehersal
Organizer: Rajendra Singh, United States Bureau of the Census
Chair: Karl R. Landis, Research Triangle Institute

Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal Methodology and Initial Results - Rajendra P. Singh, Patrick J. Cantwell, and Donna L. Kostanich ............... 444

Iterative Proportional Fitting in the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal - Eric Schindler ............... 450

Outmover Tracing for the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal - David A. Raglin and Susanne L. Bean ............... 456

Missing Data in the U.S. Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal—An Overview - Steven P. Hefter, Lisa D. Fairchild, and Philip M. Gbur ............... 462

Handling of Missing Data in the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal Integrated Coverage Measurement Sample - Anne Kearney and Michael Ikeda ............... 468

 

15. Inference and Modeling Variances in Surveys
Chair: Pierre Lavalee, Statistics Canada

Analysis of Generalized Variance Estimation for the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal - Michael D. Starsinic and Machell K. Town ............... 474

Design Effects for the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey - Iris Shimizu, Kenrick Henderson, and Wayne Johnson ............... 480

Evaluation of Confidence Interval Methodology for the National Compensation Survey - Glenn Springer, Martha Walker, Steven Paben, and Alan Dorfman ............... 486

Testing for Association between Categorical Variables with Multiple-Response Data - Dan Nettleton ............... 492

A Comparison of Three Statistical Techniques with Customer Satisfaction Rating Scales - Julian Luke, Pedro Saavedra, and Marcia S. Scott ............... 497

 

16. Methodology for the 2000 Census
Organizer/Chair: Patrick Cantwell, United States Bureau of the Census

Sample Design for the Census 2000 Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation - Randal Zu Wallack, Matthew Salganik, and Vincent Thomas Mule, Jr. ............... 501

Accounting for Changes from the 1990 Post Enumeration Survey Methodology in the 2000 Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation Sample Design - Vincent Thomas Mule, Jr. ............... 507

Selecting Variables for Poststratification and Raking - Golam M. Farooque and Inez I. Chen ............... 513

Service Based Enumeration Estimation - Felipe Kohn and Richard Grffin ............... 519

Variance Estimation for the Multiplicity Estimator in the Service Based Enumeration Program - Roger Shores, Patrick J. Cantwell and Felipe Kohn ............... 523

 

17. Nonresponse in Surveys
Chair: Paul Biemer, Research Triangle Institute

Characteristics of Unlocatable Physicians - Sara L. Thran and Martin L. Gonzalez ............... 529

Using Monetary Incentives to Reduce Attrition in the Survey of Income and Program Participation - Denise A. Abreu and Franklin Winters ............... 533

 

18. Outliers and Edit/Imputation in Surveys
Chair: Gregg I. Diffendal, Bureau of the Census

Detecting Outliers in the Monthly Retail Trade Survey Using the Hidiroglou-Berthelot Method - James W. Hunt, Jennifer S. Johnson, and Carol S. King ............... 539

Outlier Editing: A Case Study from a Survey of Banks - Carl Ramirez ............... 544

A Generic Implementation of the New Imputation Methodology - Michael Bankier, Martin Lachance, and Paul Poirier ............... 548

A Comparison of Edit and Imputation Systems - Claude Poirier ............... 554

 

19. Coverage in Screening Survey
Organizer/Chair: David Judkins, Westat

Comparison of Screening Strategies for the Health and Activity Limitation Survey - Eric R. Langlet ............... 560

The Effect of Screening on Coverage in the National Health Interview Survey - Fred Meier and Thomas Moore ............... 566

Undercoverage in Large National Screening Survey for Youths - Mike Horrigan, Whitney Moore, Steven Pedlow and Kirk Wolter ............... 570

Population Coverage in the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse - James R. Chromy, Katherine R. Bowman, Christy J. Crump, Lisa E. Packer and Michael A. Penne ............... 576

Coverage in Screening Surveys at Westat - David Judkins, Ralph DiGaetano, Adam Chu, and Gary Shapiro ............... 581

 

20. Latent-Class and Other Models in Surveys
Chair: John Hall, Mathematica Policy Research

Latent Structure Analysis at Fifty - Neil W. Henry ............... 587

The Effective Use of Complete Auxiliary Information Through Model-calibration and Empirical Likelihood - Changbao Wu and Randy R. Sitter ............... 593

Fitting Complex Survey Data to the Tail of a Parametric Distribution - J. L. Eltinge and I. Park ............... 599

A Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Approach to Inference on Hierarchically Structured Data - Milorad S. Kovacevic and Shesh N. Rai ............... 605

A Bayesian Approach to Estimation with Link-Tracing Sampling Designs - Mosuk Chow and Steven K. Thompson ............... 611

 

21. Evaluation of Dress Rehearsal and Census 2000 Coverage
Organizer: Rita J. Petroni, United States Bureau of the Census
Chair: Keith Rust, Westat

Assessing the Quality of the Initial Master Address File for Census 2000 - Joseph Burcham and Diane Barrett ............... 617

An Assessment of Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal Results: Consistency of Housing Unit Data with Demographic Benchmarks - Kirsten K. West and J. Gregory Robinson ............... 623

Error Profile for the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal - Susanne L. Bean, Katie M. Bench, Mary C. Davis, Joan M. Hill, Elizabeth A. Krejsa, and David A. Raglin ............... 629

Evaluation of the Quality Assurance Falsification Interview Used in the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal - Elizabeth A. Krejsa, Mary C. Davis, and Joan M. Hill ............... 635

Discussion - Mary H. Mulry ............... 641

 

22. Small Area Estimation
Chair: Marie Brodeur, Statistics Canada

Profiles of Poor Counties: Some Empirical Evidence - Patrick Cardiff ............... 644

Small Area Estimation in the National Resources Inventory - Junyuan Wang, Wayne A. Fuller and Jean Opsomer ............... 650

Small Area Estimation for the Distribution of Parameters with Covariates - Michael P. Cohen ............... 655

Using Prediction-Oriented Software for Model-Based and Small Area Estimation - James R. Knaub, Jr. ............... 660

 

23. New Directions in Education Surveys
Organizer: Daniel Kasprzyk, National Center for Education Statistics
Chair:
Karol Krotki, Education Statistics Services Institute

Creating Linked CCD Data to Improve the Quality of Elementary/Secondary Sample Surveys - Stephen R. Wenck, Albert C. E. Parker, Sameena M Salvucci, and Carl Schmitt ............... 666

Coverage Improvement of Terminal Kindergarten Programs from Alternative Sources in the Private School Survey - Nancy R. Johnson, Charles H. Edwards, Courtney L. Daniels, and Randall J. Parmer ............... 672

Validating Item Responses on Self-Report Teacher Surveys - John E. Mullens and Daniel Kasprzyk ............... 677

Using the Bootstrap to Estimate the Variance from a Single Systematic PPS Sample - Steven Kaufman ............... 683

 

24. Record Linkage and Combining Survey Data
Chair: Gerald K. Arnold, Zero One Data Analysis

Determining Record Linkage Parameters Using an Iterative Logistic Regression Approach - David S. Harville and Richard A. Moore ............... 689

Estimation Using the Generalized Weight Share Method: The Case of Record Linkage - Pierre Lavallée and Pierre Caron ............... 695

Comparison of the Survey Estimates from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey - D. E. B. Potter and Steven R. Machlin ............... 701

Data Adjustment for Educational Assessment - Jiahe Qian ............... 707

Methods for Combining State BRFSS Survey Data for National Estimation - Ronaldo Iachan, Jane Schulman, Shawna Collins, Eve Powell-Griner, and David E. Nelson ............... 711

 

25. Coverage Measurement in the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal
Organizer: Danny Childers, United States Bureau of the Census
Chair: David C. Whitford, United States Bureau of the Census

Modeling Census and Integrated Coverage Measurement Phase Misses in the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal - Michael Beaghen ............... 715

Person Duplication in the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal - John Jones and Danny Childers ............... 719

Integrated Coverage Measurement Persons Not Matched in the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal - Glenn Wolfgang and Danny Childers ............... 725

Erroneously Enumerated People in the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal - Roxanne Feldpausch and Danny Childers ............... 731

 

26. Pretesting and Questionnaire Design
Chair: William D. Warde, Oklahoma State University

Respondent Understanding of Decennial Census Residence Instmctions: Three Pretesting Methods, Three Results - Donna Eisenhower, Karen Mills, Eleanor Gerber, and Lisa Lee ............... 737

Influence of Type of Question on Skip Pattern Compliance in Self-Administered Questionnaires - Don A. Dillman, Cleo D. Redline, and Lisa R. Carley-Baxter ............... 743

When Should We Ask Follow-Up Questions About Items in Lists? - John Bosley, Monica Dashen, and Jean A. Fox ............... 749

 

27. Evaluations of the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal
Organizer: Nancy Bates, Unites States Bureau of the Census
Chair: Roberta L. Sangster, Bureau of Labor Statistics

The 2000 Dress Rehearsal Master Address File Building Process - Lionel Howard and Frank Vitrano ............... 755

Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal - Zakiya T. Sackor ............... 761

Have Changes Made to the Census Forms Since 1990 Affected Data Quality? - Courtney Stapleton, Wendy Davis, Roberto Ramirez, Manuel de la Puente, and Claudette Bennett ............... 766

The Evaluation of the Be Counted Program in the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal - Dave Phelps, Karen Owens, and Mike Tenebaum ............... 772

 

28. Variance Estimation in Surveys
Chair: James R. Chromy, Research Triangle Institute

Bootstrap Variance Estimation for the National Population Health Survey - Douglas Yeo, Harold Mantel, and Tzen-Ping Liu ............... 778

Effects of Design Assumptions on Sudan Variances for Estimates of Aggregates in the National Hospital Ambulatory Care Survey - Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr. and Iris M. Shimizu ............... 784

Comparison of Variance Estimation Methods for the National Compensation Survey - Steven Paben ............... 790

Empirical Investigation of Variance Estimators Based on Various Design Options when a Raking Method is Implemented - Don Jang, Joseph K. Garrett, Frank W. Piotrowski, and William B. Owens ............... 796

A SAS Macro for Estimating Sampling Errors of Means and Proportions in the Context of Stratified Multistage Cluster Sampling - Mamadou Thiam and Alfredo Aliaga ............... 801

 

29. Handling Missing Data in Surveys
Chair: Ronny Schaul, Social Security Administration

Using Proxy Information in Linear Regression Model - Rong Huang and K. C. Carriere ............... 807

Comparing Imputation of Entire Subscales Versus Individual Items in a Study of Quality of Life Following Breast Cancer - Thomas R. Belin, Moctar Datt, Kate Desmond, and Patricia A. Ganz ............... 813

A Robust Estimation Method in the Presence of Nonignorable Nonresponse - Jean-François Beaumont ............... 819

Jackknife Variance Estimation after Hot Deck Imputation - Jae-Kwang Kim and Wayne A. Fuller ............... 825

The Price Elasticity of Charitable Giving: Additional Evidence from Panel Data Via the EM Algorithm - Jiang-Ming Johnny Wu and Robert C. Ricketts ............... 831

 

Contributed Papers - Poster Session

A Measure of Concordance When There Are Many Traits - Jai Won Choi and Balgobin Nandram ............... 837

Stratum Partition, Collapse and Mixing in Construction of Balanced Repeated Replication Variance Estimators - Van L. Parsons and John L. Eltinge ............... 843

Design Effects of Survey Estimates Derived from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) - William Yu ............... 849

Effects of Survey Mode and Advance Letters on Contact and Interview Completion Rates for Population-Based Surveys of Women - Ruth M. Mickey, Pamela M. Vacek, and John K. Worden ............... 854

The Analysis of Categorical Data from a Complex Sample Survey: Chi-Squared Tests for Homogeneity Subject to Misclassification Error - S. Heo and J. L. Eltinge ............... 859

Linking Health Insurance Survey Reports of Medicaid Coverage to Administrative Files in Maine - Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Marc Agger, and Elizabeth Kilbreth ............... 865

Indirect Estimation Based on Administrative Records and the American Community Survey - Nanak Chand and Charles H. Alexander ............... 871

 

Deviance Disavowal, Interviewer Role, Social Interactions, and Underreporting in a Drug Use Survey - Zhiwei Zhang and Dean Gerstein ............... 877

Estimating the Frequency of Events from Unnatural Categories - Frederick G. Conrad, Norman R. Brown, and Monica Dashen ............... 883

Understanding the Questionnaire in Business Surveys - Diane K. Willimack, Elizabeth Nichols, and Seymour Sudman ............... 889

Respondent-Generated Interval Estimation in Sample Surveys May Reduce Item-Nonresponse - S. James Press and Judith M. Tanur ............... 895

Conducting a Social Policy Experiment in an International Setting: Research Design and Implementation Issues - Linda Young, Knowlton W. Johnson, and Denise Bryant ............... 901

Reported Exposure to Paid Advertising and Likelihood of Returning a Census Form - Nancy Bates and Sara Buckley ............... 907

Achieving an Optimum Number of Callback Attempts: Cost-Saving vs. Non-response Error Due to Non-contacts in RDD Surveys - Brian E. Harpuder and Jeffery A. Stec ............... 913

Investigating Unit Non-response in a RDD Survey - Jeffery A. Stec, Paul J. Lavrakas, and Elizabeth A. Stasny ............... 919

The Measurement of Values: When the Latent Becomes Manifest - Allen R. Wilcox ............... 925

Where Have All the Nonrespondents Gone? - Leda Kydoniefs, Kerry Levin, Tracey Hagerty, Angie Becher, and Susan Heltemes ............... 929

Reducing Nontelephone Bias in RDD Surveys - Martin R. Frankel, K. P. Srinath, Michael P. Battaglia, David C. Hoaglin, Robert A. Wright, and Philip J. Smith ............... 934

Alternative Methods of Obtaining Family Income in RDD Surveys - Lorayn Olson, Sofi Rodén, Mike Dennis, Francine Cannarozzi and Robert A. Wright ............... 940

Gains, Losses, and Changes in Hispanic Coverage with Changes in Ethnicity Question - Ruth B. McKay ............... 946

Benchmarking Market Research Web Sites - James F. Newswanger ............... 952

When Two Questions Are Better Than One - Floyd Jackson Fowler, Jr., Gregory Fitzgerald, and Paul Beatty ............... 956

Web Surveys: Can the Weighting Solve the Problem? - Vasja Vehovar, Katja Lozar Manfreda, and Zenel Batagelj ............... 962

Tapping Data Users to Compare and Review Surveys - Leda Kydoniefs and Linda L. Stinson ............... 968

Constmction Strategies for Complex Survey Questions - Paul Beatty, Floyd J. Fowler, Jr., and Gregory Fitzgerald ............... 973

Making Visible the Invisible: An Experiment with Skip Instmctions on Paper Questionnaires - Cleo Redline, Don Dillman, Richard Smiley, Lisa Carley-Baxter, and Arrick Jackson ............... 979

When and How Should Survey Interviewers Clarify Question Meaning? - Michael F. Schober, Frederick G. Conrad, and Scott S. Fricker ............... 985

Respondent Cues That Survey Questions Are in Danger of Being Misunderstood - Jonathan Bloom and Michael F. Schober ............... 991

Using the NCHS Cognitive Lab to Help Design Cycle VI of the National Survey of Family Growth - Barbara Foley Wilson and Linda S. Peterson ............... 997

Cognitive Ability and Acquiescence - Bo Zhou and McKee J. McClendon ............... 1003

Screen Design and Question Order in a CAI Instrument Effects on Interviewers and Respondents - Marek Fuchs ............... 1013

The Impact of Design on Interaction in the Computer Assisted Survey Interview - Sue Ellen Hansen ............... 1019

Hablamos Español: Collecting Information by Mail from Spanish-Speaking Medicaid Enrollees - Patricia M. Gallagher, Floyd J. Fowler, Jr., and Vickie L. Stringfellow ............... 1025

The Effects of Telephone Introductions on Cooperation: An Experimental Comparison - Nileeni Meegama and Johnny Blair ............... 1029

Retaining Good Interviewers: Characteristics that Affect Interviewer Turnover and Retention in a CAPI Survey - Andrew Williams, Tamara Cook, Richard Apodaca, and Kevin Hall ............... 1032

Developing Hate Crime Questions for the National Crime Victimization Survey - Meredith Lee, Denise Lewis, Melinda Crowley, Elaine Hock, Christopher J. Laskey, Colin Loftin, Wayne Logan, and Lynn Addington ............... 1036

Conducting Surveys with Youths in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods - Debra M. McCallum and John M. Bolland ............... 1042