Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section, American Statistical Association (1997)

Invited Papers by Topic

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

 

2. Quality of U.S. Business Establishment Frames
Organizer: David A. Marker, Westat, Inc.
Chair: Ross Arnett, Agency for Health Care Policy

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

 

3. Preserving Privacy, Not Just Confidentiality
Chair/Organizer: Fritz J. Scheuren, Ernst & Young

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

 

4. Design, Analysis, and Use of Satisfaction Surveys
Organizer: Mary H. Multy, the M/A/R/C Group
Chair: J. Gregory Dobbins, NRC Corporation

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

 

5. Calibration Estimation with Many Benchmarks
Organizer: Pedro Luis Nascimento Silva, IBGE-Brasil
Chair: David A. Binder, Statistics Canada

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

 

6. Surveying the Environment in the 21st Century: Advancing Theory and Addressing Institutional Constraints
Chair/Organizer: Anthony R. Olsen, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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

 

Contributed Papers by Topic

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

 

2. Imputation and Advances Regression Methods in the Analyses of Survey Data
Chair: Dwight B. Brock, National Institute on Aging

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

 

3. Data Analyses, Outlier Detection
Chair: Charles H. Alexander, Jr., U.S. Bureau of the Census

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

 

4. Design and Estimation for Establishment Surveys
Chair: David L Banks, Carnegie Mellon University

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

 

5. Issues for Interviewing and Questionnaire Design
Chair: Kristen K. West, National Academy of Science

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

 

6. Variance Estimates with Survey Data
Chair: Rick L. Williams, Research Triangle Institute

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

 

7. Current Employment Statistics Survey Redesign: Solicitation and Birth/Death Measurement Research
Organizer: Sandra A. West, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair: George S. Werking, Jr., U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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

 

8. Use of Auxiliary Information in Estimation
Chair:
Harold Mandel, Statistics Canada

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

 

9. Questionnaire Testing for Census 2000
Chair: Deborah H. Griffin, U.S. Bureau of the Census

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

 

10. Survey Nonresponse and Imputation-I
Chair: Robert M. Bell, RAND Corporation

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

 

11. Measurement, Sampling and Response Errors in Surveys
Chair: S. Lynne Stokes, University of Texas

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

 

12. Administrative Records, Privacy and Confidentiality
Chair: Michel LaTouche, Statistics Canada

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

 

13. Issues in Occupational and Compensation Surveys
Chair: William C. Davie, Jr., U.S. Bureau of the Census

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

 

14. Survey, Census, and Sample Design
Chair: Elizabeth A. Vacca, U.S. Bureau of the Census

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

 

15. Current Employment Statistics Survey Redesign: Sample Design and Estimation Research
Organizer: Sandra A. West, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair: Barbara Bailar, National Opinion Research Center

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

 

16. The Jackknife and Other Replication Methods for Variance Estimation
Chair: Wesley T. Yung, Statistics Canada

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

 

17. Editing and Adjusting the Survey Database
Organizer: Richard S. Sigman, U.S. Bureau of the Census
Chair:
Dale Atkinson, U.S. Department of Agriculture

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

 

18. Surveys of Employees in the Federal Statistical System
Organizer: Nancy A. Bates, U.S. Bureau of the Census
Chair: Cynthia Clark, U.S. Bureau of the Census

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

 

19. Survey Nonresponse and Imputation II
Chair: Michael D. Bankier, Statistics Canada

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

 

20. Issues in Health/Medical Surveys
Chair: James R. Chromy, Research Triangle Institute

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

 

21. Survey Sample Design and Estimation
Chair: Charles D. Cowan, Price Waterhouse

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

 

22. Census 2000 Design Research
Organizer: Elizabeth A. Vacca, U.S. Bureau of the Census
Chair: Henry F. Woltman, U.S. Bureau of the Census

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

 

23. Sampling with Random Digit Dialing (RDD)
Chair: David W. Chapman, Klemm Analysis Group, Inc.

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

 

24. Census 2000 Estimation Research
Organizer: Mary H. Mulry, The M/A/R/C Group
Chair: Duane L. Steffey, San Diego State University

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

 

25. Aspects of Sample Design
Chair: Ronald S. Fecso, National Agricultural Statistics Service

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

 

26. The USDA's Continuing Survey of Food Intakes: Issues and Applications
Organizer: Graham Kalton, Westat, Inc.
Chair: Phillip S. Kott, National Agricultural Statistics Service

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

 

27. Validating the Accuracy of Survey Data
Chair: Elizabeth A. Martin, U.S. Bureau of the Census

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

 

Contributed Papers--Poster Session

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

 

Papers Presented at the 52nd Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research
May15- 18, 1997
Norfolk, Virginia

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

 

Contributed Papers--Poster Session

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