Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section, American Statistical Association (2001)

Invited Papers by Topic

1. Automated Model Building Techniques
Organizer: David Judkins, Westat, Inc.
Chair: David Judkins, Westat, Inc.

Experiments with MART, An Automated Model Building in Survey Research: Applications to the National Survey of Parents and Youths - Paul Zador, David Judkins, and Barnali Das

2. Seymour Sudman Memorial Session: Issues in Sample Design and Response Effects
Organizer: Johnny Blair, University of Maryland
Chair: Geeta Menon, New York University

Practical Methods for Sampling Rare and Mobile Populations - Graham Kalton

Discussion of Papers At ASA Memorial Session for Seymour Sudman - Monroe Sirken

3. The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99
Organizer: Jerry West, National Center for Education Statistics
Chair: Jerry West, National Center for Education Statistics

Analysis of Potential Nonresponse Bias - J. Michael Brick and Jonaki Bose

The Effect of Some Design and Estimation Issues on the Variance Estimates of the Employment Cost Index - Steven P. Paben

The Effectiveness of the Durbin Selection Method for Variance Reduction - Thanh Lê, Ismael Flores-Cervantes, John Burke, and J. Michael Brick

4. Census 2000-Population Coverage
Organizer: Carolee Bush, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: John Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau

Findings from the Census 2000 Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation - Howard Hogan and David C. Whitford

Initial Assessment of the Census 2000 Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation Survey - Donna Kostanich, Rajendra Singh, and Howard Hogan

5. Household Survey Nonresponse
Organizer: Nancy Bates, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Nancy Bates, U.S. Census Bureau

A Comparison of Characteristics Between Late/Difficult and Non-Late/Difficult Interviews in the National Health Interview Survey - Pei-Lu Chiu, Howard Riddick, and Ann M. Hardy

The Hard-to-Interview in the American Community Survey - Gregg Diffendal

Relationship Between Household Nonresponse, Demographics, and Unemployment Rate in the Current Population Survey - John Dixon

The Use of Targeted Incentives to Reluctant Respondents on Response Rates and Data Quality - Ward R. Kay

6. New Theoretical Advances in Dual and Triple System Estimation
Organizer: Jana Asher, Carnegie Mellon University
Chair: David Hubble, U.S. Census Bureau

7. Census 2000-Decision on Release of Statistically Corrected Redistricting Data
Organizer: Carolee Bush, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: William Barron, Jr., U.S. Bureau of the Census

Discussion: The 2000 Census Adjustment Decision - Alan M. Zaslavsky

8. Measurement Error in Survey Data: Modeling and Estimation
Organizer: Christopher Bollinger, University of Kentucky
Chair: Christopher Bollinger, University of Kentucky

9. Generalized Survey Processing Systems and Generalized Modules--The Way of the Future?
Organizer: Paula Weir, Energy Information Administration
Chair: Paula Weir, Energy Information Administration

Are Generalized Systems the Way of the Future: A Case Study on the Standard Economic Processing System (StEPS) - Shirin Ahmed and Deborah Tasky

Generalized Census and Survey Processing System at the National Agricultural Statistics Service - Carol House

Generalized Survey Processing Systems and Generalized Modules--The Way of the Future? - Tim Gabel, Joe Nofziger, and Kathy Mason

Generalized Survey Processing Systems: The Canadian Perspective - Robert Kozak, Claude Poirier, and John Kovar

10. American Community Survey Planning
Organizer: Alan Tupek, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Preston Waite, U.S. Census Bureau

11. Survey Methods and Results in Studies of Lesbian and Gay Male Populations
Organizer: Lillian Lin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Brad Edwards, Westat
Chair: Brad Edwards, Westat

A Needs Assessment Study of LBT Women: The Relationship Between Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity, Health-Seeking Behaviors, and Perceived Quality of Care Issues - Sylvia Kay Fisher, Margo Michaels, and Ellen Kahn

Understanding Survey Sample Demographic Characteristics of Men who have Sex with Men - Joseph A. Catania, Jesse Canchola, Lance Pollack, and Jason Chang

Venue-based Sampling of Young Men who have Sex with Men - Lillian S. Lin, Melissa Cribbin, Ann Stueve, Wesley L. Ford, Robin L. Miller, Philip J. Smith, Farzana B. Muhib, and the Community Intervention Trial for Youth (CITY) Project Team

Contributed Papers by Topic

1. Model Misspecification, Missing Data and Measurement Error
Organizer: Mari Palta, University of Wisconsin- Madison
Chair: Sin-Ho Jung, Indiana University School of Medicine

2. Teaching Data Mining
Organizer: John Walker, Data Description, Inc.
Chair: Richard De Veaux, Williams College

3. Variance Estimation I
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Meena Khare, National Center for Health Statistics

Analysis of the Current Population Survey State Level Variance Estimates - Khandaker A. Mansur and Richard R. Griffiths

Current Population Survey Sampling Error Autocorrelations - Richard Griffiths and Khandaker Mansur

Estimating Variance in the National Compensation Survey, Using Balanced Repeated Replication - Christopher Guciardo

A New Model for Estimating the Variance under Systematic Sampling - Steven Kaufman

4. Error Properties of the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation
Organizer: Danny Childers, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Donna Kostanich, U.S. Census Bureau

Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation Persons Not Matched in Census 2000 - Glenn Wolfgang, Peter P. Davis, and Phawn Stallone

Census 2000 E-Sample Erroneous Enumerations - Roxanne Feldpausch

Modeling Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation Non-matches in the Census 2000 - Michael Beaghen, Roxanne Feldpausch, and Rosemary Byrne

Person Record Duplication in the 2000 Decennial Census - John Jones and Roxanne Feldpausch

Unresolved Status in the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation - Xijian Liu, John Jones, and Roxanne Feldpausch

5. Replicated Experiments on Survey Measurement and Nonresponse Issues
Organizer: Don Dillman, Washington State University
Chair: Jean Opsomer, Iowa State University

The Effects of Multiple Specific Items on General Questions: Results from Surveys in Five States - Frederick O. Lorenz, John Saltiel, Rob Robertson, and Virginia Lesser

Personalization of Mail Surveys on General Public and Other Populations: Results from Nine Experiments - Don Dillman, Virginia Lesser, Bob Mason, John Carlson, Fern Willits, Rob Robertson, and Bryan Burke

Quantifying the Influence of Incentives on Mail Survey Response Rates and Their Effects on Nonresponse Error - Virginia Lesser, Don A. Dillman, John Carlson, Frederick Lorenz, Robert Mason, and Fern Willits

The Effects of Numerical Labels on Response Scales - Roberta L. Sangster, Fern K. Willits, John Saltiel, Fred O. Lorenz, and Todd H. Rockwood

6. Monte Carlo Methods for Bayesian Models and Maximum Likelihood
Organizer: Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Chair: Enrica Bellone, National Center for Atmospheric Research

7. Statistical Matching and Record Linkage: Implementation and Evaluation
Organizer: Carole Popoff, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, RAND

8. Variance Estimation II
Organizer: n/a
Chair: James Chromy, Research Triangle Institute

Analysis of Design Effects for NAEP Combined Samples - Jiahe Qian and Bruce Kaplan

The Design Effect: Do We Know All about It? - Inho Park and Hyunshik Lee

Estimating the Model Variance of a Randomization-Consistent Regression Estimator - Phillip S. Kott and K.R.W. Brewer

An Extension of Fay's Method for Variance Estimation to the Bootstrap - Pedro J. Saavedra

Generalizations of Biased Reduced Linearization - Daniel F. McCaffrey, Robert Bell, and Carsten H. Botts

9. Research From the Centers for Excellence in Health Statistic
Organizer: Jennifer Madans, National Center for Health Statistics
Chair: Jennifer Madans, National Center for Health Statistics

Alternative Methods for Record Linkage: Application to Linking Vital Records - Chirayath M. Suchindran, Jack K. Leiss, and Ibrahim Salama

Effects of Nonresponse on the Mean Squared Error of Estimates from a Longitudinal Study - William D. Kalsbeek, Carolyn B. Morris, and Benjamin J. Vaughn

On Weighting the Rates in Nonresponse Weights - Roderick J. Little and Sonya Vartivarian

10. Applications of Bayesian Hierarchical Models
Organizer: Gilbert Fellingham, Brigham Young University
Chair: C. Shane Reese, Los Alamos National Laboratory

11. Election 2000: Statistical Issues in Choosing a President
Organizer: Clyde Tucker, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair: Warren Mitofsky, Mitofsky International

12. Privacy, Confidentiality and the Protection of Health Data: A Statistical Perspective
Organizer: Alvan Zarate, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC
Chair: Stephen Roehrig, Carnegie Mellon University

13. Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Balsamy Thiyagarajan, Merck Research laboratories

14. Calibration, Weighting, Response Propensities, and Estimation Under Non-response
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Balgobin Nandram, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

A Bayesian Model for a Proportion with Nonignorability - Balgobin Nandram and J.W. Choi

A Comparison of Two Methods to Adjust Weights for Nonresponse: Propensity Modeling and Weighting Class Adjustments - Barbara Lepidus Carlson and Stephen Williams

Evaluating Alternative Raking Approaches - Douglas Willson and Anka Wagner

Introduction of a New Calibration Strategy for the Survey of Household Spending - Sophie Arsenault, José Gaudet, Christian Nadeau, and Johanne Tremblay

15. The Census 2000 Address List
Organizer: Robin Pennington, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Frank Vitrano, Bureau of the Census

Census 2000 and the U. S. Postal Service Delivery Sequence Files - Miriam D. Rosenthal

The Development of the Address List in Update/Leave Areas for Census 2000 - Megan Ruhnke, Karen Owens, and Robin A. Pennington

Final Status of Addresses on the Census 2000 Address List: Analysis of the Address List-building Process - Robin Pennington and Cynthia Rothhaas

Preliminary Results from the List/Enumerate and Remote Alaska Operations for Census 2000 - Kevin J. Zajac

Results of the Census 2000 Block Canvassing Operation - Joseph Burcham

16. Methodological Issues in the 1999 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse and Beyond
Organizer: Art Hughes, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Chair: K. P. Srinath, Abt Associates Inc.

Impact of Computerized Screening on Selection Probabilities and Response Rates in the 1999 NHSDA - Joe Eyerman, Dawn Odom, James Chromy, and Joe Gfroerer

Impact of Interviewer Experience on Drug Prevalence Rates in the 1999 NHSDA - Arthur L. Hughes, James R. Chromy, Katherine Giacoletti, and Dawn M. Odom

Variance Models Applicable to the NHSDA - James R. Chromy and Lawrence E. Myers

17. Statistical Issues in the Presidential Election in Florida
Organizer: Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard University
Chair: Judith Droitcour, U.S. General Accounting Office

18. Topics in the Statistical Analysis of Data on U.S. Veterans
Organizer: Robert Klein, Department of Veterans Affairs
Chair: Robert Klein, Department of Veterans Affairs

19. Imputation and Estimation for Imputed Data
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Zhiwei Zhang, National Opinion Research Center/University of Chicago

Flexible Matching Imputation: Combining Hot-deck Imputation with Model-based Methodology - Todd R. Williams

Model-Assisted Approach to Inference for Totals in Cluster Sampling under Imputation for Missing Data - D. Haziza and J.N.K. Rao

Using Matched Substitutes to Improve Imputations for Geographically linked Databases - Calvin W.F. Chiu, Recai M. Yucel, Elaine Zanutto, and Alan M. Zaslavsky

Using Multiple Imputation in a Customer Satisfaction Survey - Stephen Ash

20. A Federal-State Partnership in Health Surveys
Organizer: Mary Kovar, National Opinion Research Center
Chair: Judy Lessler, Research Triangle Institute

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System: Federal-State Relationships and Roles - David E. Nelson

A Federal-State Partnership in Health Surveys Discussion - Mary Grace Kovar

Increasing Usefulness of BRFSS Within Public Health Community - Bruce Steiner and Gayle Blair

National Estimates of Risks/Behaviors: Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System and the National Health Interview Survey - Eve Powell-Griner, Machell Town, David E. Nelson, and Mary Grace Kovar

21. Estimation and Disclosure Issues for Sample Parent-Child Pairs Arising from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
Organizer: Douglas Wright, Department of Health and Human Services
Chair: Art Hughes, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Estimation for Person-pair Drug-related Characteristics in the Presence of Pair Multiplicities and Extreme Sampling Weights - James R. Chromy and Avinash C. Singh

Person-pair Sampling Weight Calibration using the Generalized Exponential Model for National Household Survey on Drug Abuse - M.A. Penne, P. Chen and A. C. Singh

Predicative Mean Neighborhood Imputation with Application to the Person-Pair Data of the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse - A.C. Singh, E.A. Grau, and R.E. Folsom, Jr.

22. Small Area, Small Groups and Rare Events Estimation
Organizer: n/a
Chair: William Kalsbeek, University of North Carolina

Application of the Hypergeometric Distribution in a Special Case of Rare Events - Yan Liu, Mary Batcher, and Wendy Rotz

Small Area Mean Estimation Based on a Nested-error Regression Model - Paddison C.F. Wong and Kevin J. Keen

Small Group Estimation for the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Insurance Component - John Sommers and Michael Walkup

23. Survey Research Via the Internet: Methodological Issues
Organizer: Karol Krotki, Nustats
Chair: Barry Johnson, Internal Revenue Service

Implementation of Nationally Representative Web-Based Surveys - Vicki J. Huggins and Karol Krotki

Web Survey Research: Challenges and Opportunities - Mick P. Couper

24. Interviewing, Matching and Missing Data in the 2000 Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (A.C.E.)
Organizer: Patrick Cantwell, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Rajendra Singh, U.S. Census Bureau

Missing Data Procedures for the Census 2000 Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation Sample - Michael Ikeda and Patrick J. Cantwell

Missing Data Results for the Census 2000 Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation - Mary Frances E. Zelenak, David E. McGrath, Nganha T. Nguyen, and Patrick J. Cantwell

Results of Quality Assurance on the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation Matching Operations - Tamara Adams, Rosemary Byrne, and Magdalena Ramos

Results of Quality Assurance on the Person Interview Operation of the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation of the Census 2000 - Rosemary Byrne, Tamara Adams, and Magdalena Ramos

Targeted Extended Search in The Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation of the Census 2000 - Glenn Wolfgang, Phawn Stallone, and Tamara S. Adams

25. Non-response and Non-response Reduction
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Mick Couper, University of Michigan

The Effect of Repetitive Token Incentives and Priority Mail on Response to Physician Surveys - Danna Moore

Interviewer Refusal Aversion Training to Increase Survey Participation - Thomas S. Mayer and Eileen O'Brien

Nonresponse Bias Analysis for the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Surveys (SASS) - Maxime Bokossa, Sameena Salvucci, Dhirendra Ghosh, Marilyn McMillen, Steven Kaufman, and Daniel Kasprzyk

26. Variance and Bias Estimation in the Accuracy Coverage Evaluation Survey
Organizer: Alfredo Navarro, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Gregg Diffendal, U.S. Census Bureau

Census 2000 Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation: Assessment of Synthetic Assumption - Richard A. Griffin and Donald J. Malec

Comparison of Estimates of Small Area Variances - Mark E. Asiala

Generalized Variance Modeling for the Census 2000 A.C.E. - Michael D. Starsinic and Charles D. Sissel

Weight Trimming in the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation - Vincent Mule

2000 Census Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation Survey Variance Estimates - Robert D. Sands and Alfredo Navarro

27. Partnerships and Marketing in Census 2000
Organizer: James Poyer, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Jennifer Guarino, U.S. Census Bureau

Census 2000 Survey of Partners Evaluation - James Poyer, Wade Martin, Jennifer Crafts, Joann Sorra, and Sherman Edwards

Educating the Public Through Highest Elected Officials: Evaluating How America Knows What America Needs - Bey-Ling Sha

28. Data Collection Methods and Questionnaire Design
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Roger Tourangeau, University of Michigan

Cognitive Testing of a Questionnaire for a Dual-mode Survey of Medicare Beneficiaries - Mary Grace Kovar, Lisa Lee, Mary Hess, and Susan Arday

Evolution of Electronic Data Reporting at Statistics Canada - Tony LaBillois and Jacqueline Mayda

The March CPS Health Insurance Verification Question and its Effect on Estimates of the Uninsured - Charles T. Nelson and Robert J. Mills

Some Experimental Tests of the Respondent-Generated Intervals Approach to Sample Surveys - S. James Press and Judith M. Tanur

The Three Card Method: Estimating Sensitive Survey Items--With Permanent Anonymity of Response - Judith A. Droitcour, Eric M. Larson, and Fritz J. Scheuren

Application of Matrix Sampling Design on Inventory Estimation - Robin Lee, Susan Hinkins, and John Matson

29. The U.S. Census, Industry and Occupation Data for Census 2000 and the Economic Census
Organizer: Daniel Weinberg, Bureau of the Census
Chair: Daniel Weinberg, Bureau of the Census

30. Inference Issues in Survey Sampling
Organizer: n/a
Chair: John Eltinge, Bureau of Labor Statistics and Texas A&M University

Bayesian Methods in Finite Population Sampling - Mark Sebastian Hamner, John W. Seaman, Jr. and Dean M. Young

The Hansen-Hurwitz Estimator Revisited: PPS Sampling Without Replacement - Monroe G. Sirken

On the Choice of Strategy in Unequal Probability Sampling - Anders Holmberg

A Probabilistic Framework for Inference in Finite Population Sampling - José Elias Rodriguez

A Probabilistic Set-up for Model and Design-Based Inference - Susana Rubin-Bleuer and Ioana Schiopu-Kratina

Model-Assisted Estimation of Forest Resources with Generalized Additive Models - J.D. Opsomer, G.G. Moisen, and J.Y. Kim

31. Non-response and Attrition in Telephone Surveys
Organizer: Roberta Sangster, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair: Roberta Sangster, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Examining Attrition in the Physician Component of the Community Tracking Study - Frank Potter, Michael Sinclair, and Steve Williams

Reducing Attrition in a Random-Digit-Dialing-Based Provider Record Check Study - Michael P. Battaglia, Kate Ballard-LaFeuve, Linda Piccinino, Mary Cay Murray, Robert A. Wright, and Meena Khare

32. Disclosure Limitation Research at the Bureau of the Census
Organizer: Laura Zayatz, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Jerome Reiter, Williams College

Enhancing the "100,000 rule" On the Variation of the Percent of Uniques in a Microdata Sample and the Geographic Area Size Identified on the File - Sam Hawala

The Impact of Multiple Geographies and Geographic Detail on Disclosure Risk: Interactions between Census Tract and ZIP Code Tabulation Geography - Philip Steel and Jon Sperling

Multiplicative Noise for Masking Continuous Data - Jay J. Kim and William E. Winkler

Using Linear Programming for Cell Suppression in Statistical Tables: Theory and Practice - Paul B. Massell

33. Collecting, Interpreting and Presenting Data for Social Statistics
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Jens C. Eickhoff, Iowa State University

34. Measuring Poverty: The Survey of Income and Program Participation
Organizer: Kathleen Short, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Connie Citro, Committee on National Statistics

35. Government Surveys, Ethics, and Statistics
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Arthur Kendall, U.S. General Accounting Office

Use of Customized Questionnaires, Imaging, and Generalized Survey Design and Documentation System on the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey - Frederick L. McKee and Steven C. Tourkin

36. Design and Estimation Issues in Health Surveys
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Peter Mariolis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Alaska Native and American Indian Tribe Sampling Frame Construction and Sample Design for the National Food and Nutrition Analysis Program - Charles R. Perry,Jr., Daniel G. Beckler, Michael E. Bellow, Linda G. Gregory, and Pamela R. Pehrsson

An Assessment of Misclassification Error in Provider-reported Vaccination Histories - Meena Khare, Trena M. Ezzati-Rice, Michael P. Battaglia, and Elizabeth R. Zell

An Evaluation of a Model Used to Oversample Low Income Households in the 1997 MEPS - Lap-Ming Wun, Steven B. Cohen, and John Moeller

Networking for Drug Injection as a Social Process: A Substantive and Methodological Analysis - Zhiwei Zhang

An Optimal Allocation Method to Two-Stage Sampling Designs with Stratification at the Second Stage - Jill A. Dever, Jun Liu, Vincent G. Iannacchione, and Douglas E. Kendrick

Patterns of Conditional Nonresponse in the MEPS Parent Administered Questionnaire (PAQ) - Frances M. Chevarley

37. Data Collection Methods in Census 2000
Organizer: James Treat, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: James Treat, U.S. Census Bureau

Be Counted Campaign for Census 2000 - Nathan E. Carter

Census 2000 Service-Based Enumeration - Tracey McNally

How Selected Language Groups Coped with Census 2000 - Erin M. Whitworth

An Overview of Group Quarters Enumeration - Kimball Jonas

38. Enumerating the Hard-To-Count in Census 2000
Organizer: Manuel de la Puente, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Michael Weiler, U.S. Census Bureau

Conducting a Census on American and Canadian Indian Reservations: Comparing Challenges and Solutions - Susan A. Lavin and Pierre Gauthier

The Enumeration of New York City for Census 2000: A Regional Director's Perspective - Lester A. Farthing

39. Enhancing Researchers Access to Confidentiality Data: Five Case Studies
Organizer: Virginia de Wolf, National Academy of Science
Chair: Virginia de Wolf, National Academy of Science

40. Sample Design and Estimation
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Moon Jung Cho, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Domain Estimation Using Linear Regression - M. Hidiroglou and Z. Patak

MSE Estimation of Homogeneous Linear Estimator in Stratified Multistage Sampling - Kyuseong Kim

Retrospective Assignment of Permanent Random Numbers for Ohlsson's Exponential Sampling Overlap Maximization Procedure for Designs with More than One Sample Unit per Stratum - Lawrence R. Ernst

Sampling and Estimation for the FDIC's Asset Loss Reserve - David W. Chapman, Terry L. Kissinger, and Henry S. Foster

Two Phase Sampling Design for Selecting Representative Samples from Large Administrative Databases - Skip Camp, K. P. Srinath, S. Arday, and Elizabeth Axelrod

41. The National Survey of American Families
Organizer: Fritz Scheuren, Urban Institute
Chair: Fritz Scheuren, Urban Institute

Nonresponse Bias from Incomplete Interviews in the National Survey of America's Families - Kevin Wang

Using Paradata to Examine the Effects of Interviewer Characteristics on Survey Response and Data Quality - Adam Safir, Tamara Black, and Rebecca Steinbach

Using Q-Q Plots to Assess Comparability Between NSAF and CPS - Simon Pratt and Tamara Black

Weighting for Nontelephone Households in RDD Surveys - David Ferraro and J. Michael Brick

42. The Census Enumerator - Recruiting, Training, Pay, and Management of Census Operations and Staff
Organizer: Janet Cummings, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Susan Lavin, U.S. Census Bureau

Automating the Census 2000 Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation Field Operations - Nola Krasko, Judy Dawson, and Howard Prouse

Census 2000: Staffing the Nation's Largest Data Collection Workforce - Janet Cummings

Management Approaches, Techniques and Practices Applied in the Preparation, Direction and Conduct of the Census 2000 Field Operations - Michael J. Weiler

Training Census 2000 Nonresponse Follow-up (NRFU) Enumerators - Geraldine Burt and Ruth Mangaroo

43. Sample Design and Redesign
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Brenda Cox, Mathematica Policy Research

Approximation of Relative Standard Errors of Multiyear Estimators in the National Heath Interview Survey - Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr., Carrie Jones, Chris Moriarity, and Van Parsons

Approximation of Variable Costs for the National Health Interview Survey - Iris Shimizu and Feng Lan

Collecting Vehicle Use Data - The Canadian Vehicle Survey Experience - Adam Wronski

Overview of Sample Design Research for the National Health Interview Survey - Trena M. Ezzati-Rice, Chris Moriarity, Myron Katzoff, and Van Parsons

Sample Design Issues for Surveys Involving the Observation of Drivers - Gary Shapiro, Dennis Utter, Wende Mix, Joseph Croos, David Marker, and Nancy Bondy

Sample Design Revisions in the Wake of NAICS and Regulatory Changes - Paul B. McMahon

Sample Redesign for the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) - James L. Green, Bob Baskin, and K.C. Lee

44. Response and Coverage Rates in Census 2000
Organizer: James Treat, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Robin Pennington, U.S. Census Bureau

Analysis of the Census 2000 Telephone Questionnaire Assistance Program - John Chesnut

Analysis of the Effect Undeliverable Questionnaires have on Mail Response Rates - James B. Treat

Census 2000: Evaluating Resident Cooperation Using Mail Return Rates - Herbert F. Stackhouse and James B. Treat

Design and Coverage Probes for Coverage Edit Followup for Census 2000 - Dave Sheppard

Using the Planning Database to Plan Data Collection for Census 2000 - Linda Akers and Steven Alnwick

45. Census 2000 Mail Survey Experiments
Organizer: Joan Hill, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Deborah Bolton, Bureau of the Census

Assessing the Impact of Differential Incentives and Alternative Data Collection Modes on Census Response - Jennifer A. Guarino

The Effect of SSN Requests and Notification of Administrative Record Use on Response Behavior in Census 2000 - Jennifer A. Guarino, Joan M. Hill, and Henry F. Woltman

The Effects of Altering the Design of Branching Instructions on Navigational Performance in Census 2000 - Cleo Redline, Don Dillman, Aref Dajani, and Mary Ann Scaggs

The Effects of Questionnaire and Content Changes on Responses to Race and Hispanic Origin Items: Results of a Replication of 1990 Census Short Form in Census 2000 - Elizabeth Martin, Manuel de la Puente, and Claudette Bennett

46. Data Mining and Health Policy Research
Organizer: Elaine Allen, Babson College
Chair: Michele Adler, Social Security Administration

47. Methodological Research Involving the National Household Transportation Survey
Organizer: Brian Sloboda , U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Chair: Brian Sloboda , U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Some Results of the 2000 Pre-test of the Combined Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey and the American Travel Survey - Promod Chandhok

48. Census Methodology
Organizer: James Lepkowski, University of Michigan
Chair: Virginia Lesser, Oregon State University

The 2000 Housing Unit Duplication Operations and Their Effect on the Accuracy of the Population Count - Robert E. Fay

Discussion of Session on Census Methodology - Mary H. Mulry

Methodology of the Swiss Census 2000 Coverage Survey - Anne Renaud

Order Selection, Random Effects, and Multilevel Predictors in Modeling Decennial Census Response - Eric V. Slud

49. Confidentiality and Survey Data
Organizer: Eleanor Singer, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Chair: Karen Woodrow-Lafield, Mississippi State University

Privacy Concerns and the Census Long Form: Some Evidence from Census 2000 - Elizabeth Martin

Trends in Attitudes toward Privacy, Confidentiality, and Data Sharing, 1995-2000 - Eleanor Singer and John Van Hoewyk

50. Government Statistics, Social Statistics and Survey Research Methods Section Student Paper Awards
Organizer: Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard University
Chair: Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard University

51. Methods for Missing Data and Logistic Regression
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Michael Daniels, Iowa State University

52. Methodological Issues in Administrative Records Linkage and Establishment Surveys
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Patrick Cantwell, U.S. Census Bureau

Benefits and Limitations of Using Only Administrative Data to Update Current Business Surveys with New Employer Births - James N. Burton, Carol S. King, and James W. Hunt

Implementing a Score Function to Prioritize Business Survey Edit Failures at BLS - Mary Dorinda Allard, Gordon Mikkelson, and Linda I. Unger

Modeling Wealth with Multiple Observations of Income: Redesign of the Sample for the 2001 Survey of Consumer Finances - Arthur B. Kennickell

Retaining Electronic Reporters in Business Surveys: Estimation Impact - Chantal Grondin, M.A. Hidiroglou, and Pierre Lavallée

Statistical Matching Techniques for a Household Health Insurance Survey - Michael Sinclair, Frank Potter, and Barbara Lepidus Carlson

Time and Costs Associated with Inaccurate Administrative Data - Karen CyBulski, Michael D. Sinclair, Frank J. Potter, Bidisha Ghosh, Barbara A. Kolln, and Anne B. Ciemnecki

53. Sampling, Coverage and Variance Estimation for the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation Survey
Organizer: Roger Shores, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: Richard Griffin, U.S. Census Bureau

Consistency of Census 2000 Post-Stratification Variables - James Farber and Peter Davis

Coverage Measurement Results from the Census 2000 Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation Survey - Dawn E. Haines and Peter P. Davis

Multiplicity Estimation for Service Based Enumeration in Census 2000 - Felipe Kohn, Randall ZuWallack and Richard Griffin

Variance Estimates of the Correlation Bias Estimates of the Two-Group Model - Roger Shores and Robert Sands

54. Weighting, Imputation and Editing
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Charles Mason, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Adjusting for Nonresponse Among Medicaid Households that Could Not be Located or Were Located but Did Not Participate in the Minnesota Managed Care Survey - Bidisha Ghosh, Karen A. CyBulski, Michael Sinclair, and Anne B. Ciemnecki

Extending the Fellegi-Holt Model of Statistical Data Editing - William E. Winkler and Bor-Chug Chen

National Health Interview Survey Family Weighting Research 2000 - Karen E. Davis

Residual Weighting in Survey Sampling - Yiannis C. Bassiakos and Chrissoula Preza

55. Designing and Analyzing Health Survey Data
Organizer: n/a
Chair: John Gardenier, CDC/National Center for Health Statistics

Survey Attrition in a Supplement to the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) - Janet C. Greenblatt

56. Methods Panel to Improve Income Measurement in SIPP
Organizer: Pat Doyle, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair: J. Gregory Robinson, U.S. Census Bureau

57. Variance Modeling, Variance Estimation, and Inference for Complex Survey Data
Organizer: John Eltinge, Bureau of Labor Statistics and Texas A&M University
Chair: Larry Huff, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Diagnostics for Evaluation of Superpopulation Models for Variance Estimation Under Systematic Sampling - M.J. Cho and J.L. Eltinge

Methods for Comparison of Design Effect Components Across Surveys - Ibrahim S. Yansaneh and John L. Eltinge

On Procedures to Summarize Variances for Survey Estimates - Don Jang

58. Problems in Applied Survey Research
Organizer: James Lepkowski, University of Michigan
Chair: Eleanor Singer, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

A Cross Validation Study Comparing Two Approaches to Fitting Regression Models in a Mixture of Two Populations: Classical Methods vs. the Mixture Model - Steven M. LaLonde

Monitoring Salt Iodination in Developing Countries - Roberto A. Molina-Cruz, David J. Fitch, and James M. Lepkowski

A Ranking Approach to Confidentiality in Survey Data - Johan Heldal

59. Statisticial Methods with Applications
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Brajendra Sutradhar, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Efficient Methodology within the Canadian Census Edit and Imputation System (CANCEIS) - Michael Bankier, Paul Poirier, and Martin Lachance

Contributed Posters

A Comparison of Programs for Variance Estimation from Complex Sample Surveys - Wayne E. Johnson, Lester R. Curtin, and Van L. Parsons

How Do People Interpret Open-ended Categorical Questions? - Monica Dashen and Scott Fricker

Issues Related to Analysis of a Single Year of Data from the Annual National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys - Margaret D. Carroll, Jenny Chia and Jill Montaquila

Precision of Survey Estimates Derived from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) - William Yu

Using Prediction-Oriented Software for Survey Estimation - Part III: Full-Scale Study of Variance and Bias - James R. Knaub, Jr.

Papers Presented at the 56th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research
& World Association for Public Opinion Research
2001
Montreal, Quebec Canada

Adapting Cognitive Interviewing Methodologies to Compensate for Unique Characteristics of Establishments - Kristin Stettler, Diane K. Willimack, and Amy E. Anderson

Application of Cognitive Methods to an Establishment Survey: A Demonstration Using the Current Employment Statistics Survey - Eileen O'Brien, Sylvia Fisher, Karen Goldenberg, and Richard Rosen

Balancing Cost and Mean Squared Error in RDD Telephone Surveys: The National Immunization Survey - K.P. Srinath, Michael P. Battaglia, Jessica Cardoni, Corrina Crawford, Richard Snyder, and Robert A. Wright

Building an Alternative Response Process Model for Business Surveys - Diane K. Willimack and Elizabeth Nichols

Clarifying Question Meaning in a Web-based Survey - Laura H. Lind, Michael F. Schober, and Frederick G. Conrad

A Comparison of Methods for the Evaluation of Construct Equivalence in a Multigroup Setting - Jerry G.J. Welkenhuysen-Gybels and Fons J.R. van de Vijver

The Confederate Flag Debacle: An Examination of Interviewer Race on Respondent Answers to a Racially Sensitive Subject - Katherine Lind, Robert Oldendick, Carol Hall, Judi Rose, and Ron Shealy

Contact Strategies and Activity Bias in Telephone Time-Use Surveys - Jay Stewart

Coverage, Nonresponse, and Cost Tradeoffs Using a One-question Screener for Age Eligibility in Household Surveys - James M. Lepkowski, Karen E. Davis, Krishna Winfrey, Roger Tourangeau, and Robert M. Groves

Determining Nativity Through Household-level and Person-level Question Designs - Randy Capps, Kevin Wang, Scott McNevin, Jeffrey S. Passel, and David Cantor

Do Latinos and Anglos think about Health Care in the Same Ways? - Patricia M. Gallagher and Floyd J. Fowler, Jr.

The Effect of Motivational Messaging on Mode Choice and Response Rates in the Library Media Center Survey - Elizabeth Nichols, Kent Marquis, and Richard Hoffman III

Effects of Telephone Technologies and Call Screening Devices on Sampling, Weighting, and Cooperation in a Random Digit Dialing (RDD) Survey - Shelley Brock Roth, Jill Montaquila and J. Michael Brick

Evaluating Mode Effects on a Survey of Behavioral Health Care Users - Vickie L. Stringfellow, Floyd J. Fowler, Jr., and Brian R. Clarridge

Eye-Movement Analysis: A New Tool for Evaluating the Design of Visually Administered Instruments (Paper and Web) - Cleo D. Redline and Christopher P. Lankford

A Feasibility Evaluation of a Web-Based Demographic Survey - Elizabeth K. Griffin and Heather C. Holbert

How Long Should You Wait Before Attempting to Convert a Telephone Refusal? - Timothy Triplett, Julie Scheib, and Johnny Blair

The Impact of Interviewer Characteristics on Respondent Characteristics that Influence Item Non-Response - Karen E. Schnite

Implementation and Results of the Internet Response Mode for Census 2000 - Erin M. Whitworth

Internet Versus Mail as a Data Collection Methodology from a High Coverage Population - Nancy Bates

Interpreting Verbal Reports in Cognitive Interviews: Probes Matter - Frederick G. Conrad and Johnny Blair

A Look at Some Preliminary Results of Evaluating the Census 2000 Integrated Marketing Strategy - Elizabeth Martin and Emilda Rivers

List-Assisted Sampling: The Effect of Telephone System Changes on Design - Clyde Tucker, James Lepkowski, and Linda Piekarski

Maximizing the Quality of Cognitive Interviewing Data: An Exploration of Three Approaches and Their Informational Constributions - Sarah Daugherty, Lauren Harris-Kojetin, Claudia Squire, and Elizabeth Jaël

Measuring HIV/STD Risk Behaviors: Two Telephone Survey Pretests Conducted in 2000 - John E. Anderson, Danni Lentine, Sheila L. Knight, Stephen J. Blumberg, and Ronald Fichtner

Measuring Private and Public Health Coverage: Results from a Split-Ballot Experiment on Order Effects - Joanne Pascale

Minding the Children - Lisa Schwartz

Mode and Incentive Effects on Aspects of Survey Administration and Data Quality - Jennifer O'Brien, Kerry Y. Levin, Tracey Hagerty-Heller, James B. Greenlees, and Arthur D. Kirsch

Pretesting the Survey of Respirator Uses and Practices (SRUP): Cognitive and Field Testing of a New Establishment Survey - Sylvia Kay Fisher, Kelley Frampton, and Ramona Tran

Questionnaire Pretesting Methods: Do Different Techniques and Different Organizations Produce Similar Results? - Jennifer Rothgeb, Gordon Willis, and Barbara Forsyth

Standardized Cognitive Testing: Will Quantitative Results Provide Qualitative Answers - Carol Cosenza

The Use of Touch-Screen ACASI in a High-Risk Population: Implications for Surveys Involving Sensitive Questions - Gordon B. Willis, Alia Al-Tayyib, and Susan Rogers

Using Respondent Requests for Help to Develop Quality Data Collection Instruments: The 2000 Census of Agriculture Content Test - Jaki Stanley McCarthy

The Vanishing Respondent in Telephone Surveys - Peter Tuckel and Harry O'Neill

The Weighting Strategy of the Canadian Community Health Survey - François Brisebois and Sylvain Thivierge