1. Synthesis of CASM II: Current and Future Directions in Interdisciplinary
Research on Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methods
Chair/Organizer: Susan Schechter, National Center for Health Statistics
CASM II: Current and Future Directions in Interdisciplinary
Research - Susan Schechter, Monroe Sirken, Judith Tanur, Elizabeth Martin,
and Clyde Tucker ............... 1
Quality of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Business
Establishment List as a Sampling Frame - Michael A. Searson and Tracy
E. Farmer ............... 11
Quality of the DMI File as a Business Sampling
Frame - David A. Marker and W. Sherman Edwards ............... 21
Discussion - Brenda G. Cox ...............
31
Public Attitudes Toward Data Sharing: Findings
and Implications - Eleanor Singer and Stanley Presser ...............
34
Producing Public-Use Microdata That Are Analytically
Valid and Confidential - William E. Winkler ............... 41
Choosing Questions to Measure the Quality of
Experience with Medical Care Providers and Health Care Plans - Floyd
Jackson Fowler, Jr. ............... 51
Discussion - Seymour Sudman ...............
55
A Ridge-Shrinkage Method for Range-Restricted
Weight Calibration in Survey Sampling - J. N. K. Rao and A. C. Singh
............... 57
Calibration Estimation in the 1991 and 1996 Canadian
Censuses - Michael Bankier, Anne-Marie Houle and Manchi Luc ...............
66
Variable Selection for Regression Estimation
the Presence of Nonresponse - C. J. Skinner and P. L. d Nascimento Silva
............... 76
Discussion - Richard Valliant ...............
83
Variance Estimation for Subpopulation Parameters
from Samples of Spatial Environmental Populations - Don L. Stevens, Jr.
and Thomas M. Kincaid ............... 86
Nonsampling Error Considerations in Environmental
Surveys - Virginia M. Lesser and William D. Kalsbeek ...............
96
1. Sampling, Mode, Weighting and Imputation Issues in School Surveys
Organizer: Dennis J. Schwanz, U.S. Bureau of the Census
Chair: Paul D. Planchon, National Center for Education Statistics
Reinterview: A Tool for Survey Quality Improvement
- Patricia Feindt, Irwin Schreiner, and John Bushery ...............
105
The Effect of Mode of Interview on Estimates
from the 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) Public School Teacher Survey
- Cornette L. Cole, Robert C. Abramson, Randall J. Parmer,
and Dennis J. Schwanz ............... 111
Improving the Coverage of Private Elementary-Secondary
Schools - Betty J. Jackson, Nancy R. Johnson, and Richard L. Frazier
............... 117
1993-94 Student Records Survey: Sampling and
Weighting Conundra - Randall J. Parmer, Robert C. Abramson, Cornette
L Cole, Lenore A. Colaciello, and B. Dale Garrett ............... 123
Applying Mass Imputation Using the Schools and
Staffing Survey Data - Steven Kaufman and Fritz Scheuren ...............
129
Imputation of Multivariate Data on Household
Net Worth - Steven G. Heeringa, Roderick J. A. Little, and Trivellore
E. Raghunathan ............... 135
Estimation of Variance Due to Imputation in the
Transportation Annual Survey (TAS) - Philip M. Steel and Jun Shac ...............
141
Likelihood Imputation - Li-Chun Zhang
............... 147
Weighting in Regression for Use in Survey Methodology
- James R. Knaub, Jr. ............... 153
Generalized Variance Functions for Data from
Multi-Frame Surveys: The SESTAT Experience - Don S. Jang, Brenda G. Cox,
and David 1. Edson ............... 158
Recursive Regression Estimation in the Presence
of Time-in-Sample Effects - Ibrahim S. Yansaneh ...............
164
Testing Goodness-of-Fit for Logistic Regression
with Survey Data - Barry I. Graubard, Edward L. Korn, and Douglas Midthune
............... 170
An Application of a Two-Phase Ratio Estimator
and the Delete-a-Group Jackknife - John Amrhein, Susan Hicks, and Phillip
Kott ............... 175
Modeling 2-Bedroom Median Rent of Occupied Housing
Units Using AHS-MS Data - Elizabeth T. Huang and Jay J. Kim ...............
180
A Practical Application of A Robust Multivariate
Outlier Detection Method - Sarah Franklin and Marie Brodeur ...............
186
Pseudo Point Generation for NRI Data - Jens
C. Eickhoff and Jean D. Opsomer ............... 192
Developing an Integrated System for Mixed Mode
Data Collection in a Large Monthly Establishment Survey - Richard J.
Rosen and David O'Connell ............... 198
Personalized Questionnaires for Canada's Annual
Survey of Manufactures - John S. Crysdale ............... 204
Measuring Employment from Births and Deaths in
the Current Employment Statistics Survey - Diem-Tran Kratzke, Heidi Shierholz,
and Steve Woodruff ............... 210
Can Respondents Construct a Frame and Draw a
Sample? Experiences from the 1993 Commodity Flow Survey - Jock Black
............... 216
Predicting Final Retail Sales Estimates from
Advance Reports - Howard Hogan, Patrick J. Cantwell, and M. Cristina
Cruz ............... 222
Evaluation of the Redesigned Questionnaire for
the Children in Custody Census - Yukiko Ellis and Laurie Schwede ...............
228
The Development of a Voice Recognition Prototype
for Field Listing - Lawrence A. Malakhoff and Martin V. Appel ...............
234
Using Keystroke Files to Assess Respondent Difficulties
with an Audio-CASI Instrument - Rachel A. Caspar and Mick P. Couper ...............
239
Using Cognitive Research to Improve the Accuracy
of Postsecondary Faculty Counts - Stephen R. Wenck, Sameena M. Salvucci,
Rita Bureika, Valerie Conley, and Linda J. Zimbler ............... 245
Using Cellular Telephones to Interview Nontelephone
Households - Pat Cunningham, Martha Berlin, Judy Meader, Karen Molloy,
Dward Moore, and Steve Pajunen ............... 250
Use of Within-PSU Variances and Errors-in-Variables
Regression to Assess Stability of a Standard Design-Based Variance Estimator
- D. S. Jang and J. L Eltinge ............... 255
Simulation Methods for Evaluation of the Stability
of Design-Based Variance Estimators - J. L. Eltinge and V. L. Parsons
............... 261
Variance Estimation for Two-Phase Stratified
Sampling - David A. Binder, Cohn Babyak, Marie Brodeur, Michel Hidiroglou,
and Wisner Jocelyn ............... 267
Variance Estimation in the Presence of Imputed
Data - Jill M. Montaquila and Robert W. Jernigan ...............
273
Sampling for Employment at New Establishments
in a Monthly Business Survey - George Stamas, Karen Goldenberg, Kerry
Levin, and David Cantor ............... 279
Measuring the Contribution of Business Births
and Deaths to Overall Employment Movements - Patricia Getz, Jurgen Kropf
and Sharon Strifas ............... 285
Research Investigations in Gaining Participation
from Sample Firms in the Current Employment Statistics Program - Robert
M. Groves, David Cantor, Mick Couper, Kerry Levin, Kate McGonagle, Eleanor Singer,
and John VanHoewyk ............... 289
Implementation of the Current Employment Statistics
Redesign: Data Collection - Richard L. Clayton ............... 295
Current Employment Statistics - Dennis
Trewin ............... 298
Composite Estimation for the Canadian Labour
Force Survey - A. C. Singh, B. Kennedy, S. Wu, and F. Brisebois ...............
300
Reweighting Households to Develop Microsimulation
Estimates for States - Allen L. Schirm and Alan M. Zaslavsky ...............
306
Estimation of Correlation Between Years for the
American Housing Survey - Jay J. Kim, Robert Fay III, and George Train
III ............... 312
Correcting the Bias in the Range of a Statistic
Across Small Areas - David R. Judkins and Jun Liu ...............
318
Logistic Regression Analysis with Aggregate Data:
Tackling the Ecological Fallacy - David G. Steel, Mark Tranmer, and D.
Holt ............... 324
The Design and Analysis of the US 2000 Census
Test - Henry F. Woltman, Deborah Griffin, and Mary C. Davis ...............
330
Comparing Two Approaches to Questionnaire Design:
Official Government Versus Public Information Design - Theresa F. Leslie
............... 336
Using the 1996 National Content Survey to Measure
the Impact of Alternative Skip Patterns on the Collection of Employment Data
- David A. Raglin ............... 342
Coverage Evaluation of Experimental Forms in
the 2000 Census Test - Nick Alberti ............... 348
Assisting the Simplified Enumerator Questionnaire
for Census 2000 - Diane F. Barrett and Michael Tenebaum ...............
353
An Evaluation of the Quality of the Demographic
Data Collected by Enumerators in a Test of Service-Based Enumeration Procedures
- Richard A. Smiley ............... 359
Biases and Variances of Survey Estimators Based
on Nearest Neighbor Imputation - Jiahua Chen and Jun Shao ...............
365
Multivariate Item Imputation for the 2000 Census
Short Form - Yves Thibaudeau, Todd Williams, and Tom Krenzke ...............
371
Analysis of Nonresponse Effects in the 1995 Survey
of Consumer Finances - Arthur B. Kennickell ............... 377
Adjusting for Wave 1 Unit Nonresponse in the
1996 SIPP Panel - Aref Dajani and Franklin Winters ...............
383
1996 Canadian Census Demographic Variables Imputation
- Michael Bankier, Anne-Marie Houle, Manchi Luc, and Patrica Newcombe ...............
389
Empirical Likelihood Inference in the Presence
of Measurement Error - C. X. Bob Zhong ............... 395
Assessing Nonsampling Errors in Survey Data Through
Random Intercept Models - Dale Atkinson ............... 401
Net Coverage Error in the 1997 Census of Agriculture
- Glenn S. Wolfgang ............... 407
Measuring Race: An Empirical Investigation
- Hue-Choon Shin ............... 413
Using Administrative Record Persons in the 1996
Community Census - Elizabeth M. Sweet ............... 416
An Assessment of the Use of Administrative Data
in the Identification of New Farms - Johanne Denis and Jeannine Morabito
............... 422
Providing Document Retrieval Through a Metadata
Repository at the Census Bureau - Gregory J. Lestina, Daniel W. Gillman,
and Martin V. Appel ............... 428
Variance Estimation for Public Use Files Under
Confidentiality Constraints - Wesley Yung ............... 434
Producing a Public Use File: A Case Study
- Kenneth Rasinski, Jeffrey Timberlake, Lisa Lee, Javier Porras and Jeri
Mulrow ............... 440
Matrix Masking Methods Which Preserve Moments
- Ruben N. Mera ............... 445
The National Compensation Survey: The New BLS
Integrated Compensation Program - Stephen H. Cohen ...............
451
Sample Design and Estimation for the National
Compensation Survey - Susan R. Black, Lawrence R. Ernst, and Jason Tehonica
............... 457
Statistical Problems in BLS Compensation Surveys
When Collected Establishment Data Differs from the Assigned Data - Susan
R. Black, Lawrence R. Ernst, and Jason Tehonica ............... 463
Adjusting Establishment Selection Probabilities
and Number of Occupational Selections to Reduce Variances in BLS Compensation
Surveys - Steven P. Paben and Lawrence R. Ernst ............... 469
Maximizing and Minimizing Overlap When Selecting
a Large Number of Units per Stratum Simultaneously for Two Designs - Lawrence
R. Ernst ............... 475
Developing an Estimator to Estimate the Variance
of Mean Wage Rates Computed from Grouped Data in the Occupational Employment
Statistics Survey - Kenneth W. Robertson, Albert Tou, and Larry Huff
............... 481
Optimality in Balanced Rotating Panel Survey
Design - Dhiren Ghosh and Andrew Vogt ............... 487
Subsampling Callbacks to Reduce Survey Costs
- Michael R. Elliott, Steven Lewitzky, and Roderick J. A. Little ...............
490
An Application of Multiple List Frame Sampling
for Multi-Purpose Surveys - Jeffrey T. Bailey and Phillip S. Kott ...............
496
Evaluation of Oversampling the Low Income Population
in the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) - Vicki
J. Huggins and Karen Ellen King ............... 501
Composite Estimation for Samples with Overlapping
Sampling Units - Jiahe Qian ............... 507
Overview of the CES Redesign - George
S. Werking ............... 512
Sample Redesign for the Current Employment Statistics
Survey - Shail Butani, George Stamas, and Michael Brick ...............
517
Estimation Procedures for the Bureau of Labor
Statistics Current Employment Statistics Program - Shail Butani, Rachel
Harter, and Kirk Wolter ............... 523
Estimators for Average Hourly Earnings and Average
Weekly Hours for the Current Employment Statistics Survey - S. West,
D. Kratzke, and P. Grden ............... 529
An Empirical Study of Variance Estimates of Raking
Ratio Adjusted Estimators - Fan Zhang, Michael P. Cohen, and Sameena
Salvucci ............... 535
On the Performance of Replication-Based Variance
Estimation Methods with Small Number of PSUS - Mingxiu Hu, Fan Zhang,
Michael P. Cohen, and Sameena Salvucci ............... 541
An Alternative Jackknife Procedure for NAEP Variance
Estimation - Stanley Weng, Sameena Salvucci, and Michael P. Cohen ...............
547
Jackknife Variance Estimation in Multiple Frame
Surveys - Sharon Lohr and J. N. K. Rao ............... 552
Current Population Survey Variance Properties
- Carol A. Gunlicks, Jeffrey S. Corteville, and Khandaker Mansur ...............
558
Set-Covering and Editing Discrete Data -
William E. Winkler ............... 564
Adopting the SPEER Edit System to Edit Hog Data
in the National Agricultural Statistics Services's Quarterly Agricultural Surveys
- Todd A. Todaro ............... 570
Algorithms for Adjusting Survey Data that Fail
Balance Edits - Richard Sigman and Dennis Wagner ...............
576
Balancing and Ratio Editing with the New SPEER
System - Lisa R. Draper and William E. Winkler ............... 582
Alternative Editing and Estimation Procedures
for the Advance Monthly Retail Trade Survey - Julia L. Bienias, Timothy
J. Braam, and William C. Davie, Jr. ............... 588
Origins of the Organizational Climate Survey
of Federal Statistical Agencies - Lynda T. Carlson and Emilda B. Rivers
............... 594
The Effects of Questionnaire Mode on Response
in a Federal Employee Survey: Mail versus Electronic Mail - James B.
Treat ............... 600
Organizational Climates of Innovation Across
Federal Statistical Agencies - Nancy Bates ............... 605
Organizational Climate Surveys at the National
Agricultural Statistics Service - Daniel G. Beckler and Christina S.
Messer ............... 611
Should Imputation of Missing Data Condition on
All Observed Variables? - Roderick Little and Trivellore Raghunathan
............... 617
Response Rates in a Survey that Collects Childhood
Vaccination Information from Households and Providers - Michael P. Battaglia,
Trena M. Ezzati-Rice, David C. Hoaglin, John D. Loft, and Edmond F.
Maes ............... 623
Response Rates and Other Effects of the New Single
Panel Design for Monthly Business Surveys - Carl Konschnik and James
N. Burton ............... 629
The Bayesian Bootstrap and Multiple Imputation
for Unequal Probability Sample Designs - Michael P. Cohen ...............
635
Maintaining Response Rates in a Physician Survey
- Sara L. Thran and Gregory D. Wozniak ............... 639
Considerations for Analysis of the Medicare Current
Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Across Time - Julie O'Connell, Adam Chu, and
R. Clifton Bailey ............... 645
Predictive Margins with Survey Data - Edward
L. Korn and Barry I. Graubard ............... 651
A Nonlinear Two-Phase Predictor for Soil Survey
Updates - Pamela J. Abbit, F. Jay Breidt, and Sarah M. Nusser ...............
657
Sampling Issues in the Science-Based Approach
to Microbiological Testing in Meat Inspection Programs - Ronald S. Fecso
............... 661
Unintentional Crossover Effects in Community
Intervention Studies: Evidence from a Nutrition Survey Aimed at African Americans
- Shelley P. Brock, Joseph V. Mauney, and William D. Kalsbeek ...............
667
An Evaluation of Alternative USDA Agricultural
Labor Survey Estimators - Floyd M. Spears, Raj S. Chhikara, Charles R.
Perry, and Susan Cowles ............... 673
The Use of Variant Poisson Sampling to Reduce
Sample Size in a Multiple Product Price Survey - Pedro J. Saavedra and
Paula Weir ............... 679
A Comparison of Alternative Sampling Methodologies
for Census 2000 - James Farber and Alfredo Navarro ...............
683
Census 2000 ICM: Stratification and Poststratification
- Eric Schindler and Richard Griffin ............... 689
Sample Allocation Research for the Census 2000
ICM Survey - Richard A. Griffin and Felipe Kohn ............... 695
Who Was Counted Last in the 1990 Census?
- Thomas R. Krenzke and Deborah H. Grffin ............... 701
Response Rates in Random Digit Dialing (RDD)
Telephone Surveys - James T. Massey, Dan O'Connor, and Karol Krotki ...............
707
Dual-Frame RDD and Area Sample for Household
Survey with Particular Focus on Low-Income Population - Joseph Waksberg,
J. Michael Brick, Gary Shapiro, Ismael Flores-Cervantes, and Bridgett
Bell ............... 713
A Survey Budgeting Sustem - Brian James,
Karol Krotki, and Amy Rathbun ............... 719
Examining the Reliability of Self-Reported Location
Information in RDD Telephone Surveys - Douglas Willson, Greg Mahnke,
Julie Bouffard, and Geoff Halsted ............... 724
An Improved Call-scheduling Method Using Call
History and Frame Information - L. Reedman and M. Robinson ...............
730
Use of Hard-to-Count Scores and Inclusion Probabilities
to Improve Dual System and Census Plus Estimates - Rita Petroni, Anne
Kearney, and J. Gregory Robinson ............... 736
A Study in Heterogeneity of Census Coverage Error
for Small Areas - Mary H. Mulry, Mary C. Davis, and Joan M. Hill ...............
742
Accounting for Variance Due to Imputation in
the Integrated Coverage Measurement Survey - Suzanne M. Dorinski and
Richard Griffin ............... 748
Modeling Census Mailback Questionnaires, Administrative
Records, and Sampled Nonresponse Followup, to Impute Census Nonrespondents
- Elaine Zanutto and Alan M. Zaslavsky ............... 754
The Hájek Estimator Revisited - Alan
H. Dorfman and Richard Valliant ............... 760
Stratification by Size Revisited - Alan
H. Dorfman and Richard Valliant ............... 766
A Multi-Phase Sample Design to Co-ordinate Surveys
and Limit Response Burden - Phillip S. Kott and Matt Fetter ...............
772
Optimal Clustering in Multi-Stage Samples
- Robert Clark ............... 778
Replicate Variance Estimates - Reducing Bias
by Using Overlapping Replicates - Susan Hinkins, H. Lock Oh, and Fritz
Scheuren ............... 784
The Effect of Different Rotation Patterns on
the Sampling Variance of Seasonal Trend Filters - Craig H. McLaren and
David G. Steel ............... 790
An Overview of the USDA's 1994-96 Continuing
Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals and the Diet and Health Knowledge Survey
- Joseph D. Goldman, Lori G. Borrud, and Martha Berlin ...............
796
Weighting Procedures for USDA's Continuing Survey
of Food Intakes by Individuals 1994-96 - Adam Chu and Joseph Goldman
............... 802
Survey Net: Coding and Management of CSFII Food
Intake Data - Randy P. LaComb, Amy Green, and Linda Ingwersen ...............
808
Using USDA's Continuing Survey of Food Intakes
by Individuals to Assess Welfare Reform Nutritional Impacts on Selected Low-Income
Groups - P. Peter Basiotis, Carol S. Kramer-LeBlanc, and Eileen T. Kennedy
............... 811
Discussion - S. M. Nusser ...............
817
Getting More Bang from the Reinterview Buck:
Identifying "At Risk" Interviewers - Catherine C. Hood and John
M. Bushery ............... 820
Using Trace Files to Evaluate the National Health
Interview Survey CAPI Instrument - Mick P. Couper, John Horm, and Jay
Schlegel ............... 825
Evaluation of the Census Bureau's Master Address
File Using National Health Interview Survey Address Listings - Kathy
Ott, Randy Parmer, Barbara Reilly, Cliff Loudermilk, Yolanda McMillan,
and Tom Couglin ............... 830
Results of the Wave I Incentive Experiment in
the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation - Tracy L. James
............... 834
Community Based Behavioral Risk Factor Surveys-A
Case Study - W. D. Kaigh and Virginia Price ............... 840
Recorded Interview Behavior Coding Study National
Survey of Recent College Graduates - Margaret Cahalan, Susan Mitchell,
Lucinda Gray, Selma Chen, and John Tsapogas ............... 846
Generalized Variance Functions for the 1994 National
Employer Health Insurance Survey - Christopher L. Moriarity, Sarah W.
Gousen, and David W. Chapman ............... 852
Correlation Estimator for Unbalanced Data
- Jai W. Choi and J. Richard Landis ............... 858
Achieving Agreement Between the American Community
Survey and the Current Population Survey - Nanak Chand and Charles H.
Alexander ............... 864
How do People Answer Income Questions? -
L. H. Moyer, N. E. Fansler, M. A. Lee, and D. Von Thurn ...............
870
"Last Time You Had 78, How Many Do You
Have Now?" The Effect of Providing Previous Reports on Current Reports of Cattle
Inventories - Jaki S. Stanley and Martin A. Safer ...............
875
Neighborhood and Community Contextual Effects
on Individual-Level Voter Turnout: A Case Study of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Kurt Schlichting, Peter Tuckel and Richard Maisel ............... 881
A Comparison of Interviewer Effects Models in
an RDD Telephone Survey of Drug Use - Timothy Johnson, Michael Fendrich,
Chitra Shaligram, and Anthony Garcy ............... 887
The Use of Statistical Quality Control Charts
in Monitoring Interviewers - Stephanie J. Reed and John H. Reed ...............
893
Subjective Assessments of Economic Well-Being:
Understanding the Minimum Income Question - Darby Miller Steiger, Tina
Mainieri, and Linda Stinson ............... 899
Using the "Delighted/Terrible" Scale to
Measure Feelings About Income - Linda L Stinson ............... 904
Does Conversational Interviewing Improve Survey
Data Quality Beyond the Laboratory? - Michael F. Schober and Frederick
G. Conrad ............... 910
The Multiracial Category as "Wild Card"
in Racial Questionnaire Design - Ruth B. McKay ............... 916
Third-Person Reporting of Hispanic Origin and
Race in a Group Quarters/Establishment Census - Laurie Schwede ...............
922
Mode Effects and Consumer Assessments of Health
Plans - Floyd Jackson Fowler, Jr., and Patricia M. Gallagher ...............
928
Better Formatting for Lower Response Burden
- Andrew Zukerberg and Meredith Lee ............... 934
Improving the Navigational Qualities of the Decennial
Census Short Form Requires Paying Attention to the Entire Mailing Package
- Cleo R. Jenkins ............... 940
Does $10 Equal $10? The Effect of Framing on
the Impact of Incentives - Eleanor Singer, Nancy Gebler, John VanHoewyk,
and Jan Brown ............... 946
Incentives in Population Based Health Surveys
- Richard C. Strouse and John W. Hall ............... 952
Can Plus Digit Sampling Generate a Probability
Sample? - Gösta Forsman and Stig Danielsson ...............
958
Recall Decay and Telescoping in Self-Reports
of Alcohol and Marijuana Use: Results from the National Household Survey on
Drug Abuse (NHSDA) - Robert A. Johnson, Dean R. Gerstein, and Kenneth
A. Rasinski ............... 964
Response Time to Various Mail Surveys - Vincent
A. Scardino ............... 970
Respondent Characteristics Associated with Misreporting
of Vaccinations in a Telephone Survey - Michael P. Battaglia, Trena M.
Ezzati-Rice, and Elizabeth R. Zell ............... 976
Establishment Surveys: The Effect of Multi-Mode
Sequence on Response Rate - Renee Shatos Petrie, Danna Moore, and Don
A. Dillman ............... 981
Nonresponse Follow-Up in Establishment Surveys:
A Split-Half Experiment - Young I. Chun ............... 988
Procedures for Reducing Measurement Error in
Establishment Surveys - Karen Goldenberg, Kerry Levin, Tracey Hagerty,
Ted Shen, and David Cantor ............... 994
Effects of Precontacting on Response and Cost
in Self-Administered Establishment Surveys - Carl Ramirez ...............
1000
SAQS and Sex: A Re-Analysis of the National Health
and Social Life Survey - Mick P. Couper and Linda Stinson ...............
1006
Racial Differences in Surveys of Drug Prevalence:
More than a Measurement Error? - Ann F. Brunswick ...............
1012
Evaluation of Nonresponse in the Belgian Election
Panel Study '91 - '95 - Geert Loosveldt and Ann Carton ...............
1017
CAI Instrument Usability Testing - Sue
Ellen Hansen, Marek Fuchs, and Mick P. Couper ............... 1023
Questionnaire Designers versus Instrument Authors:
Bottlenecks in the Development of Computer-Administered Questionnaires -
Irvin Katz, Linda Stinson, and Frederick Conrad ............... 1029
Interviewer Behavior on CAPI Grids and Lists
- D. E. B. Potter, Brad Edwards, Sandra Sperry and Richard Dulaney ...............
1035
Response-Order Effects in Public Opinion Surveys:
The Plausibility of Rival Hypotheses - George F. Bishop and Andrew E.
Smith ............... 1041
The Effect of Different Introductions and Answering
Machine Messages on Response Rates - Peter Tuckel and Trish Shukers ...............
1047
A Response Rate Experiment for RDD Surveys
- J. Michael Brick and Mary A. Collins ............... 1052
The Use of Vignettes in Evaluating Household
Roster Information: Does Anybody Read the Rules? - Eleanor Gerber, Catherine
Keeley, and Tracy Wellens ............... 1058
Variation In Cognitive Interviewer Behavior--Extent
and Consequences - Paul Beatty, Susan Schechter, and Karen Whitaker ...............
1064
Usability Testing of a Website and a Web User
Survey - Barbara Foley Wilson and Margot Palmer ............... 1069
What Do We Really Gain from Using Replacement
Questionnaires to Increase Response to Mail Surveys? - Theresa F. Leslie
............... 1074