Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section, American Statistical Association (1998)

Invited Papers by Topic

1. Network and Adaptive Sampling -Theory and Application
Organizer/Chair: Barry Graubard, National Cancer Institute

A Short History of Network Sampling - Monroe G. Sirken ............... 1

More on Population Based Establishment Surveys - Iris Shimizu and Monroe Sirken ............... 7

Adaptive Sampling in Graphs - Steven K. Thompson ............... 13

 

2. Achieving Quality in Surveys
Organizer: Lars Lyberg, Statistics Sweden
Chair: Paul P. Biemer, Research Triangle Institute

Quality Improvement in Surveys - A Process Perspective - Lars Lyberg, Lull Japec, and Paul Biemer ............... 23

Reporting on Data Quality and Process Quality - Joy Dobbs, Catherine Gibbins, Jean Martin, Pam Davies, and Tricia Dodd ............... 32

Measuring Survey Quality in a CASIC Environment - Mick P. Couper ............... 41

Improving Survey Quality Through Pretesting - Theresa J. DeMaio, Jennfer Rothgeb, and Jennifer Hess ............... 50

 

3. The Application of Logistic Models with Mixed Effects to Sample Survey Datasets
Organizer/Chair:
David Judkins, Westat, Inc.

Model-Based Approaches to Small Area Estimation with Binary Data - Charles E. McCulloch ............... 59

Hierarchical Covariance Modeling for Nonlinear Regression with Random Parameters - A. C. Singh and S. Wu ............... 64

Discussion - Ralph E. Folsom ............... 74

 

4. Analysis of Longitudinal Data from Complex Surveys
Organizer/Chair: Malay Ghosh, University of Florida

Marginal Models for Repeated Observations: Inference with Survey Data - J.N.K Rao ............... 76

 

5. Innovative Methodology in Government Surveys
Organizer: Gordon J. Brackstone, Statistics Canada
Chair:
David Binder, Statistics Canada

The Methodology of the Workplace and Employee Survey - Z. Patak, M Hidiroglou, and P. Lavalke ............... 83

Recent Developments in the American Community Survey - Charles H. Alexander ............... 92

 

6. The Controversy about Sampling in the Census
Chair: Lawrence D. Brown, University of Pennsylvania

Census 2000: The Statistical Issues - John H. Thompson and Robert E. Fay ............... 101

Who Counts? Census Controversies for the Millennium - Margo Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg ............... 111

 

7. Memorial Session: James T. Massey
Organizers: Trena M. Ezzati-Rice, National Center for Health Statistics Elizabeth R. Zell, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Chair: Elizabeth R. Zell, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Using the National Health Interview Survey as a Sampling Frame for Other Health-Related Surveys - Trena M. Ezzati-Rice, Steven B. Cohen, Meena Khare, and Christopher L. Moriarity ............... 121

 

Contributed Papers by Topic

1. Data Quality Evaluations and Improvement
Chair: Victoria Albright, Westat, Inc.

Keying Errors Caused by Unusual Keypunch Codes: Evidence from a Current Population Survey Test - Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart ............... 131

Improving Survey Estimates of the Uninsured Using Computer-Assisted Interviewing Logic - Barbara Lepidus Carlson ............... 135

1997 Bankruptcy Petition Study - Experience Applying a Total Quality Design Paradigm - Manuel G. Quiogue and Sara Dorn-Havlik ............... 141

The Reinterview Program for the BLS Compensation Surveys - Steven P. Paben ............... 147

 

2. Uses of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey for Health Policy
Organizer: Adam Chu, Westat, Inc.
Chair: R. Clifton Bailey, Health Care Financing Administration

Concept and Development of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey - Gerald S. Adler ............... 153

Sampling and Estimation Issues in the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey - Julie O'Connell, Annie Lo, David Ferraro, and R. Clifton Bailey ............... 156

Medical Events: Enhancing Self-Report Quality in a Longitudinal CAPI Design - Brad Edwards ............... 162

Determinants of Enrollment and Disenrollment in Medicare HMOs - Gary Olin and Amy Lavis ............... 168

 

3. Survey Methodology for the American Community Survey
Organizer/Chair: Rajendra Singh, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Weighting the 1996 and 1997 American Community Surveys - Scot A. Dahl ............... 172

A Study of the Weighting Adjustment Procedures for the American Community Survey - Samson A. Adeshiyan ............... 178

Generalized Variance Estimates in the 1996 American Community Survey - Anthony G. Tersine and Alfredo Navarro ............... 184

1996 American Community Survey vs. 1990 Decennial Census Household Size and Characteristics by Response Mode - Pamela W. Ferrari ............... 190

 

4. Improving Survey Data Using Administrative Records
Chair: Charles Pautler, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Evaluation of 1996 Community Census Administrative Records File - Jay Kim, Elizabeth T. Huang and Kent Marquis ............... 196

The Use of Administrative Records in Current Business Surveys and Censuses - Carl A. Konschnik, Jennifer S. Johnson, and James N. Burton ............... 202

Comparison Study on the Quality of Financial Data Collected Through Personal and Telephone Interviews - Pierre Caron and Pierre Lavallée ............... 208

 

5. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System: Design and Methods Issues
Chair: William D. Kalsbeek, University of North Carolina

Objectives and Design of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System - David E. Nelson, Deborah Holtzman, Mike Waller, Craig Leutzinger, and Ken Condon ............... 214

Use and Limitations of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data - Eve Powell-Griner ............... 219

An Analysis of Telephone Call History Data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System - Wendy M. Ahmed and William D. Kalsbeek ............... 224

Discussion - Seymour Sudman ............... 230

 

6. Surveying Institutional and Group Quarters Populations
Chair: Viviane Renaud, Statistics Canada

Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Defining the Basic Statistical Units in a Facility Census - Laurie Schwede ............... 232

A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Two Nursing Home Sample Designs - John Sommers ............... 238

Alternative Methods for Enumerating Residents of Group Quarters in the American Community Survey - Joe Fuller, Rob Rothhaas, and Diane DiFulvio ............... 244

Problems with Determining and Listing Group Quarters in Preparation for Enumeration - Laureen H. Moyer and Jennfer Hess ............... 250

Difficulties with Collecting Address Information from People at Mobile Food Van Stops - Richard A. Smiley ............... 256

Estimating the Homeless Population: Unduplicated Enumeration in the Presence of Massively Missing Data from Institutional Surveys - Mack C. Shelley, II, Paula W. Dail and Scott T. Fitzgerald ............... 260

 

7. Research on Coverage in Household Surveys
Chair: Howard Hogan, U.S. Bureau of the Census

An Exploration of Coverage in Four Demographic Surveys - Brian A. Harris-Kojetin and Mick P. Couper ............... 266

Predictive Models for Decennial Census Household Response - Eric V. Slud ............... 272

Who Knows Who Lives Here? Within-Household Disagreements as a Source of Survey Coverage Error - Elizabeth Martin ............... 278

Further Research on the Use of Data on Interruptions in Telephone Service - John Hall ............... 284

Use of Data on Interruptions in Telephone Service for Noncoverage Adjustment - M. R. Frankel, T. Ezzati-Rice, R. A. Wright, and K. P. Srinath ............... 290

Adjusting for Non-Response in the 1996 Reverse Record Check - Martin Provost ............... 296

 

8. Imputation and Variance Estimation in Complex Surveys
Chair: Lynda Carlson, Energy Information Administration

Imputation Methods in the Sample Survey of Law Enforcement Agencies - Suzanne M. Dorinski ............... 302

Evaluation of Some Popular Imputation Algorithms - Mingxiu Hu, Sameena M. Salvucci, and Michael P. Cohen ............... 308

Imputation Methods for Large Complex Datasets: An Application to the NEHIS - Ibrahim S. Yansaneh, Leslie S. Wallace, and David A. Marker ............... 314

Imputation Variance Estimation in Schools and Staffing Survey - Fan Zhang, Mike Brick, Steve Kaufman, and Elizabeth Walter ............... 320

Alternative Variance Estimation Methods for the NHIS - Mary Gessley Nixon, J. Michael Brick, Graham Kalton, and Hyunshik Lee ............... 326

 

9. Topics in Small Area Estimation
Chair: Rachel Harter, National Opinion Research Corporation

Power Transformations in Components of Variance Models for Small Area Estimation - Getachew Asfaw Dagne ............... 332

Small Area Estimation of Coverage Error for the 1997 Census of Agriculture - Bruce Eklund ............... 335

Model-Based Microsimulation Estimates for States When State Programs Vary - Allen L. Schirm and Alan M. Zaslavsky ............... 339

Small Area Estimation for the Distribution of Parameters - Michael P. Cohen ............... 345

 

10. Issues in Web Data Collection
Organizer: Elizabeth Nichols, U.S. Bureau of the Census
Chair: Rick Clayton, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Web-Based Data Collection in National Science Foundation Surveys - Ronald L. Meeks, Ann T. Lanier, Ronald S. Fecso, and Mary A. Collins ............... 349

Web-based Data Collection in the Current Employment Statistics Survey - Richard J. Rosen, Christopher D. Manning, and Louis J. Harrell, Jr. ............... 354

Designing the Census Bureau Web Hiring Questionnaire: A Case Study - Nancy Bates and Elizabeth Nichols ............... 360

Economic Data Collection via the Web: A Census Bureau Case Study - Elizabeth Nichols and Barbara Sedivi ............... 366

 

11. Topics in Estimation
Chair: Tim Coburn, Abilene Christian University

Estimating Distribution Functions Related by Depth - Pamela J. Abbitt, Juan José Goyeneche, and Jennifer Schumi ............... 372

A Bootstrap Approach to Probability Proportional-to-Size Sampling - Anders Holmberg ............... 378

Inferring Random Samples from a Cluster Sample - Hee-Choon Shin ............... 384

A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Analyzing a Polychotomous Response from a Cluster Sample - Michael E. Schuckers and Hal S. Stern ............... 387

Median Duration Estimation When Continuous Event Data is Reported in Discrete Intervals - Donald M. Luery and Richard S. Sigman ............... 392

 

12. Advances in Questionnaire Design Methods and Evaluation
Chair: Theresa DeMaio, U.S. Bureau of the Census

The Effect of a Household-Level Screening Question on the Prevalence Rate of an Item - David A. Raglin ............... 398

Using Focus Groups with Respondents and Interviewers to Evaluate the Questionnaire and Interviewing Procedures After the Survey Has Taken Place - Allen R. Gower, Brenda Bélanger, and Marie-Josée Williams ............... 404

A New Collection Methodology for the Canadian Survey of Household Spending - Johanne Tremblay and Alison Hale ............... 410

Human-Computer Interface Usability in a Survey Organization: Getting Started at the Census Bureau - Kent Marquis, Elizabeth Nichols, and Heather Tedesco ............... 416

Automating the Focused Reinterview - John S. Hilton and John M. Bushery ............... 421

 

13. Sampling Topics I
Chair: Stuart Scott, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Adaptive Optimal Selection of Sampling Locations - Chang-Tai Chao and Steven K. Thompson ............... 425

Frame Free Adaptive Designs - Paul L. Mosquin and Steven K. Thompson ............... 431

Implicit Stratification and Sample Rotation Using Permanent Random Numbers - Pedro J. Saavedra and Paula Weir ............... 437

Two Multiple-Phase Surveys that Combine Overlapping Sample Cycles at Phase 1 - Paula Weir and Pedro Saavedra ............... 443

Rectification of Sample Size in Bernoulli and Poisson Sampling - Dhiren Ghosh and Andrew Vogt ............... 448

Assigning Permanent Random Numbers to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Longitudinal (Universe) Data Base - Shail Butani, Kenneth W Robertson, and Kirk Mueller ............... 451

Permanent and Collocated Random Number Sampling and the Coverage of Births and Deaths - Lawrence R. Ernst, Richard Valliant, and Robert I. Casady ............... 457

 

14. Statistical Issues in the National Survey of American Families
Organizer/Chair:
J. Michael Brick, Westat, Inc.

Coverage in a Sample Designed for Interviewing Only Nontelephone Households - David Ferraro, Gary Shapiro, J. Michael Brick, and Teresa Strickler ............... 463

Effect of Oversampling by Poverty Status in an RDD Survey - Ismael Flores-Cervantes, Gary Shapiro, and Shelley P. Brock-Roth ............... 469

Preserving Degrees of Freedom in a Multi-Mode, Multi Site Survey - Ralph DiGaetano, J. Michael Brick, and Ismael Flores-Cervantes ............... 475

 

15. Sampling Topics II: Sample Design for Establishment Surveys
Chair: Nash Monsour, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Redesigning the Monthly Surveys of Retail and Wholesale Trade for the Year 2000 - Patrick J. Cantwell and Jock R. Black ............... 481

Enhancements to the Canadian Monthly Wholesale and Retail Trade Survey - Julie Trépanier, Cohn Babyak, Isabelle Marchand, Joël Bissonnette, and Martin St-Pierre ............... 487

Changing the Sample Design to Meet User Needs: The Survey of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises Past, Present, and Future - Richard A. Moore, Carol V Caldwell, and Ruth E. Detlefsen ............... 493

Using Administrative Data to Enhance the Sampling Frame for the 1997 Survey of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises (SMOBE) - Anthony C. Williams and Richard A. Moore, Jr. ............... 499

An Investigation of Incompleteness of List Frames in US Agricultural Surveys - Floyd M. Spears, Raj S. Chhikara, and Charles R. Perry ............... 505

The Evolution of Survey Methodology for a Company Survey of Capital Expenditures - Marie C. Stetser, John Michael Goodloe, and Mark S. Sands ............... 511

Selecting the Employment Cost Index Survey Sample as a Subsample of the National Compensation Survey - Lawrence R. Ernst and Chester H. Ponikowski ............... 517

 

16. Nonresponse in Surveys
Chair: Virginia Lesser, Oregon State University

Location and Response Propensity Modeling for the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth - Vincent G. Iannacchione ............... 523

Do Monetary Incentives Improve Response Rates in the Survey of Income and Program Participation? - Stephen Mack, Vicki Huggins, Donald Keathley, and Mahdi Sundukchi ............... 529

Analysis of Nonresponse Effects on Income and Poverty Time Series Data from SIPP - Smanchai Sae-Ung and Franklin Winters ............... 535

Methods for Calculating Nonresponse for "Screener Households" in the NHIS - Frances M. Chevarley ............... 541

Patterns of Survey Attrition and Reluctant Response in the 1996 MEPS - Steven B. Cohen, Steven R. Machlin, and Jim Branscome ............... 546

Measuring the Impact of Alternative Weighting Schemes for Longitudinal Data - Johanne Dufour, François Gagnon, Yves Morin, Martin Renaud, and Carl-Erik Sdrndal ............... 552

 

17. Statistical Application in Health Policy Research
Chair: Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard Medical School

Optimizing the Use of Proxy Respondents - Sara L. Thran and Gregory D. Wozniak ............... 558

 

18. Evaluation of Bias
Chair: Mary Mulry, M/A/R/C Research

Comparing Current Population Survey Estimates Computed Using Different Composite Estimators - Janice Lent, Stephen Miller, Martha Duff and Patrick J. Cantwell ............... 564

Experiences in the Bias Analysis in the Canadian International Travel Survey - François Laflamme, Simon Cheung, André Cyr, and Stéphane Tremblay ............... 570

Nonresponse Bias in Mail Surveys of Health Plan Members - Floyd Jackson Fowler, Jr. ............... 576

 

19. Census 2000 Sampling and Estimation I
Organizer: Elizabeth Anne Vacca, U.S. Bureau of the Census
Chair: Richard A. Grffin, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Integrated Coverage Measurement Sample Design for Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal - David McGrath and Robert Sands ............... 581

Causes and Possible Remedies for Sampling Weight Variation in the Census 2000 Integrated Coverage Measurement Survey - Robert D. Sands and David E. McGrath ............... 587

Allocation of the ICM Sample to the States for Census 2000 - Eric Schindler ............... 593

Estimation in Multiple Groups in the Presence of External Constraints that Prohibit Explicit Data Pooling - Jerome P. Reiter ............... 599

Variance Estimation for the 1998 Census Dress Rehearsal - Robert E. Fay and Machell Kindred Town ............... 605

 

20. Topics in Survey Design and Analysis: NHANES and Other Topics
Chair: Jean Opsomer, Iowa State University

Methodological Issues in Surveying the Nonbanked Population in Urban Areas - Constance R. Dunham, Fritz J. Scheuren, and Douglas H. Willson ............... 611

 

21. Census 2000 Sampling and Estimation II
Organizer/Chair: Elizabeth Ann Vacca, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Missing Data Procedures in the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal Integrated Coverage Measurement Sample - Michael Ikeda, Anne Kearney, and Rita Petroni ............... 617

Handling of Missing Data in the 1996 Integrated Coverage Measurement - Michael M. Ikeda, Anne T. Kearney, and Rita J. Petroni ............... 623

A Comparison of Alternative Estimation Methodologies for Census 2000 - James Farber and Richard Griffin ............... 629

Estimation in the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal - Richard Grffin and Elizabeth Ann Vacca ............... 635

A Transparent File for a One Number Census - C. T. Isaki, M. M. Ikeda, J. H. Tsay, and W.A. Fuller ............... 641

A Method for Evaluating Alternative Raking Control Variables - Dawn E. Haines and Joan M. Hill ............... 647

 

22. Drawing Inference from Nationwide Health Surveys
Chair: Andrew A. White, National Research Council

A Comparison of Survey Methodologies and their Effects on Health Care Utilization Estimates - Nancy Krauss, Steve Machlin, and Kellyn Carper ............... 653

Estimating Variance Components for a Two-Stage Design with Second-Stage Strata Nested within PSUs - Jun Liu, Vincent Iannacchione, and Jill Kavee ............... 657

The Enhanced Sample Design of the Future National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) - Jill M. Montaquila, Leyla Mohadjer, and Meena Khare ............... 662

Probability Matching of Medical Events - Marianne Winglee, J. Michael Brick, Richard Valliant, Carmen Vincent, Amy Lavis, and Steven Machlin ............... 668

 

23. Imputed Data and Replication Methods for Variance Estimation: Census and Housing Topics
Chair: Anthony An, SAS Institute

Model Explicit Item Imputation for Census 2000 - Yves Thibaudeau ............... 674

Imputing Person Age for the 2000 Census Short Form: A Model-Based Approach - Todd R. Williams ............... 680

Long Form Design for the U.S. Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal and Plans for Census 2000 - Philip M. Gbur, Steven P. Hefter, and Lisa D. Fairchild ............... 686

Variance Estimation Procedure for Value of Construction Put in Place Survey with Imputed Data - Carrie Jones and Masato Asanuma ............... 692

Modified Half Sample Variance Estimation for Median Sales Prices of Sold Houses: Effects of Data Grouping Methods - Katherine J. Thompson and Richard S. Sigman ............... 698

Estimation of the Effective Degrees of Freedom in T-Type Tests for Complex Data - Jiahe Qian ............... 704

 

24. Longitudinal Data Bases
Chair: Karol Krotki, Education Statistics Services Institute

Longitudinal Estimates and Permanent Random Numbers in Administrative Records Studies - Paul B. McMahon ............... 709

Sample Design Issues for the Base Year of a Longitudinal Survey of Kindergarten Children - John Burke, Thanh Lê, and John Michael Brick ............... 715

A Class of Models for Semicontinuous Longitudinal Data - Maren K. Olsen and Joseph L. Schafer ............... 721

Improving Unbiased Estimators in Adaptive Cluster Sampling - Arthur L. Dryver and Steven K. Thompson ............... 727

 

25. Methodological Issues in the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
Organizer: Joe Gfroerer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration
Chair:
Douglas Wright, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration

Major Design Changes in the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse - Peggy Barker, Joe Gfroerer, Rachel Caspar, and Judith Lessler ............... 732

Development of Computer Assisted Interview Procedures for the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA): Design and Operation of the 1997 CAI Field Experiment - Judith T. Lessler, Michael Witt, and Rachel Caspar ............... 738

Effects of Experimental Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI) Procedures on Reported Drug Use in the NHSDA: Results from the 1997 CAI Field Experiment - Michael A. Penne, Judith T. Lessler, Gayle Bieler, and Rachel Caspar ............... 744

Testing ACASI Procedures to Reduce Inconsistencies in Respondent Reports in the NHSDA: Results from the 1997 Experimental Field Test - Rachel A. Caspar, Judith T Lessler, and Michael A. Penne ............... 750

Hierarchical Models Applied to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) - Doug Wright and Zhiwei Zhang ............... 756

Discussion - Paul V. Miller ............... 762

 

26. Variance Estimation in Complex Surveys
Chair: Timothy W Elig, Defense Manpower Data Center

Using the Delete-A-Group Jackknife Variance Estimator in Practice - Phillip S. Kott ............... 763

A Bootstrap Variance Estimator for Systematic PPS Sampling - Steven Kaufman ............... 769

Variance Estimation for the Current Employment Statistics Program - Kirk Wolter, Jun Shao, and Larry Huff ............... 775

Variance Estimation for the Generalized Regression Estimator Under Two-Phase Sampling - A Modified Approach - Martin Axelson ............... 781

Generalized Variance Estimates from the National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 5 - Jill D. Kavee and Vincent G. Iannacchione ............... 787

Variances for the Survey of Income and Program Participation 1984-1996 Panels: A Chronology and Evaluation of Direct and Generalized Variances - Jennifer Guarino, Vicki Huggins, Robert Fay, and Aref Dajani ............... 793

 

Contributed Papers-Poster Session

Nonparametric Density Estimation Using Complex Survey Data - Trent D. Buskirk ............... 799

ASA Chapters - An Update on their Health - Winston A. Richards ............... 802

Phone Coverage Among Undocumented Immigrants: The Project Hope Hispanic Immigrant Survey - Marc L. Berk, Cynthia D. Good, and Martin Frankel ............... 808

Enhancing the SCF with Administrative and Alternative Survey Data - Gerhard Fries ............... 813

Asymptotic Properties of Imputed Variables in the Consumer Expenditure Survey - Nanak Chand and Charles H. Alexander ............... 817

Generalized Semi One-Level Rotation Sampling - YouSung Park, KeeWhan Kim, and Jai Won Choi ............... 823

 

Papers Presented at the 53rd Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research
May 14-17, 1998
St. Louis, Missouri

Nonmonetary Incentives: Can their Effects be Replicated? - Brad Edwards, Andrew Williams, and Susan Lea ............... 829

Electronic and Mail Self-Administered Questionnaires: A Comparative Assessment of Use Among Elite Populations - Sameer Y. Abraham, Darby Miller Steiger, and Colleen Sullivan ............... 833

Reading the Fine Print: Evaluating Discrepancies in Print Reading Disability Statistics - Paul Beatty, Wendy Davis, Emilie Schmeidler, and Corinne Kirchner ............... 842

Telephone Non-Response: A Factorial Experiment of Techniques to Improve Telephone Response Rates - Katherine Lind, Timothy Johnson, Vince Parker, and Sam Gillespie ............... 848

Questionnaire Design Effects on Interview Outcomes - Jeffrey Moore and Laureen Moyer ............... 851

Effects of Question Context and Response Order on Attitude Questions - Timothy Johnson, Diane 0 'Rourke, and Elizabeth Severns ............... 857

Beliefs and Behavior: The Use of Survey Evidence in Deceptive Advertising Cases - Janet Hoek, Philip Gendall, Michael F. Fox, and Natalie Erceg ............... 861

Racial Consciousness and Voter Turnout in Urban America - Kurt Schlichting, Peter Tuckel, and Richard Maisel ............... 867

Asking About Condom Use: Is there a Standard Approach that Should be Adopted Across Surveys? - John E. Anderson, Cornelis Rietmeyer, Ronald W. Wilson and Peggy Barker ............... 873

Collecting Information About the Health Care Experiences of Adolescents - Patricia M. Gallagher and Floyd I. Fowler, Jr. ............... 878

Improving the Feasibility of Including Deaf Respondents in Telephone Surveys - Barbara Foley Wilson, Senda Benaissa, Karen Whitaker, Paul Beatty, and Gerry Hendershot ............... 883

An Experiment to Improve Drug Use Reports During Survey Interviews - Timothy P. Johnson, Michael Fendrich, Seymour Sudman, Joseph Wislar, and Elizabeth Severns ............... 888

Do Interviewer-Respondent Race Effects Impact the Measurement of Illicit Substance Use and Related Attitudes? - David Livert, Charles Kadushin, Mark Schulman, and Andy Weiss ............... 894

Beyond Concurrent Interviews: An Evaluation of Cognitive Interviewing Techniques for Self-Administered Questionnaires - Cleo Redline, Richard Smiley, Meredith Lee, Theresa DeMaio, and Don Dillman ............... 900

The Effect of Longitudinal Burden on Survey Participation - Richard Apodaca, Susan Lea, and Brad Edwards ............... 906

The Effects of Self and Proxy Response Status on the Reporting of Race and Ethnicity - Brian A. Harris-Kojetin and Nancy A. Mathiowetz ............... 911

CAPI Instrument Evaluation: Behavior Coding, Trace Files, and Usability Methods - James M. Lepkowski, Mick P. Couper, Sue Ellen Hansen, Wendy Landers, Katherine A. McGonagle, Jay Schlegel, and Fran Chevarley ............... 917

Evaluating the NHIS CAPI Instrument Using Trace Files - Mick Couper and Jay Schlegel ............... 923

Usability Evaluation of the NHIS CAPI Instrument - Sue Ellen Hansen, Mick P. Couper, and Marek Fuchs ............... 928

Interviewer Selection and Data Quality in Survey Research - Ann Carton and Geert Loosveldt ............... 934

Response Accuracy When Interviewers Stray from Standardization - Michael F. Schober and Frederick G. Conrad ............... 940

Use of an Intranet to Manage a Telephone Survey - J. Michael Dennis, Victor G. Coronado, Martin Frankel, Ann-Sofi Rodén, Candice Saulsberry, Howard Speizer, and Robert A. Wright ............... 946

Web-Based Survey Tools - Sarah Nusser and Dean Thompson ............... 951

Managing 78 Simultaneous RDD Samples - Paul Buckley, J. Michael Dennis, Candice Saulsberry, Victor G. Coronado, Trena Ezzati-Rice, Edmond Maes, Ann-Sofi Rodén, and Robert A. Wright ............... 957

A Controversal Approach to Computer-Administered Questionnaires - Frederick G. Conrad and Michael F. Schober ............... 962

Provider On-Line Locating Facility for a Telephone Survey of Childhood Immunization - John D. Loft, Edmond Maes, Anita Kneifel, Ann-Sofi Rodén, Rebecca Strella, Victor Coronado, and Robert A. Wright ............... 968

Results of an Experiment Using Different Mail Carriers for a Mail Survey of Immunization Providers - John D. Loft, Edmond Maes, Anita Kneifel, Ann-Sofi Rodén, K. P. Srinath, Rebecca Strella, Victor Coronado, and Robert A. Wright ............... 971

Teens Talk: Are Adolescents Willing and Able to Answer Survey Questions? - Jennifer Hess, Jennifer Rothgeb, Andy Zukerberg, Kerry Richter, Suzanne Le Menestrel, Kristin Moore, and Elizabeth Terry ............... 978

Data Editing as a Measure of Questionnaire Quality - Charles Day and Jaki Stanley McCarthy ............... 984

Can Information From and About Interviewers Predict their CAPI Behavior? - D. E. B. Potter, Sandra Sperry, Brad Edwards, and Richard Dulaney ............... 987