I. New Research in Random-Digit-Dialing Technology
Organizer: Clyde Tucker, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair: Robert J. Casady, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Efficiency of List-Assisted Random Digit
Dialing Sampling Schemes for Single and Dual Frame Surveys - Paul Biemer
and Don Akin, Research Triangle Institute ............... 1
Dynamics of "List-Assisted" Random Digit
Dialing (RDD) Frame Coverage - Dale W. Kulp, GENESYS Sampling Systems
............... 11
Evaluating the Use of Data on Interruptions in
Telephone Service for Nontelephone Households - Michael Brick and Joseph
Waksberg, Westat, Inc.; Scott Keeter, Virginia Commonwealth University
............... 19
Analysis of Domain Means in Complex Surveys
- D. R. Bellhouse, University of Western Ontario; J.N.K Rao, Carleton
University ............... 29
Resampling Methods for Complex Surveys -
J.N.K Rao, Carleton University ............... 35
Maximizing the Use of Auxiliary Information for
Calibration and Regression Estimation - V. Estevao and Z. Patak, Statistics
Canada; C. E. Siirndal, University of Montreal ............... 42
Design and Results of the Women's Health Study
- Roger Tourangeau, National Opinion Research Center; Jared B. Jobe
and William F. Pratt, National Center for Health Statistics; Kenneth
Rasinski, National Opinion Research Center ............... 49
CAPI, Event Histories, and Incentives in the
NSFG Cycle 5 Pretest - William D. Mosher and William F. Pratt,
National Center for Health Statistics; Allen P. Duffer, Jr., Research
Triangle Institute ............... 59
Results from the National Survey of Family Growth
Cycle V Pretrest - Judith T. Lessler, Michael F. Weeks, and James M.
O'Reilly, Battelle Memorial Institute ............... 64
Sampling and Statistical Estimation in the Decennial
Census - Robert M. Bell, RAND Corporation ............... 71
Continuous Measurement Alternatives to Census
Data Collection - Keith F. Rust, Westat, Inc. ............... 80
Discussion - Robert E. Fay, U.S. Bureau
of the Census ............... 90
Discussion - Ivan P. Fellegi, Statistics
Canada ............... 93
Assessment of Reported Differences Between Expenditures
and Low Incomes in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey - J. L. Eltinge,
Texas A&M University; I. S. Yansaneh, Westat, Inc.; G. D.
Paulin, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 96
Do Expenditures Explain Income?: A Study of Variables
for Income Imputation - Geoffrey D. Paulin, U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics; David L. Ferraro, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
106
Regression Analysis of Repeated Survey Data (With
Available Software) - Phillip S. Kott, U.S. Department of Agriculture
............... 116
Variance Estimation for Superpopulation Parameters:
Should One Use With-Replacement Estimators? - Edward L. Korn and Barry
I. Graubard, National Cancer Institute ............... 124
Sample Models and Weights - C. J. Skinner,
University of Southampton ............... 133
The Maintenance of Ethical Principles in Marketing
Research - Solomon Dutka and Lester R. Frankel, Audits & Surveys
............... 143
Establishment Surveys From the End User Perspectives
- Robert H. McGuckin, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 146
Sampling and Estimation for Establishment Surveys:
Stumbling Blocks and Progress - M. A. Hidiroglou, Statistics Canada
............... 153
Establishment Surveys: Designing the Survey Operations
of the Future - George S. Werking, U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics
............... 163
New Directions for Establishment Surveys
- Lynda T. Carlson, U.S. Department of Energy ............... 170
Organizational Needs and Management Issues for
Establishment Survey Programs - Cynthia Z.F. Clark, U.S. Department
of Agriculture ............... 178
I. Remote Sensing
Organizer: Lynn Kuo, University of Connecticut
Chair: Michael P. Cohen, National Center for Education Statistics
Use of Geostatistical Techniques in the Design
of an Agricultural Field Experiment - Wayne P. Dulaney, University
of Maryland; Laura L. Lengnick and Galen F. Hart, U.S. Department of
Agriculture ............... 183
Bayesian Construction of Thematic Maps from Satellite
Imagery - E.J. Green, Rutgers University; A.F.M. Smith,
Imperial College; W.E. Strawderman, Rutgers University ...............
188
Large Domain Satellite Based Estimators of Crop
Planted Area - Michael E. Bellow, U.S. Department of Agriculture
............... 194
Persistent Oscillation Patterns in Climatological
Fields - Charles Kooperberg, and Finbarr O'Sullivan, University of
Washington ............... 200
Resampling Inference for Quantile Shares
- Milorad S. Kovacevic, Wesley Yung, and Gurupdesh S. Pandher, Statistics
Canada ............... 206
Variance Estimation of Drug Abuse Episodes Using
the Bootstrap - Arthur L. Hughes and Marc D. Brodsky, National Institute
on Drug Abuse ............... 212
Resampling Variance Estimates for Complex Survey
Designs-A Simulation Study - William H. Robb, Macro International
Inc. ............... 218
Approximating the Variance of the Survey Regression
Estimator Using Poststratification - Kelli A. Leonard, Providian
Bankcorp; Anthony B. An, Sarah M. Nusser,and F. Jay Breidt, Iowa State
University ............... 222
Relative Efficiency of Two Two-Stage Sample Designs
- Mohammad A. Chaudhary, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
............... 228
Variance Estimation for EIA-877 Propane Prices
- Benita J. 0'Colmain, Pedro J. Saavedra, and Paula Weir, Macro International
Inc. ............... 232
Models for Imputing Nonsample Households with
Sampled Nonresponse Followup - Elaine Zanutto and Alan M. Zaslavsky,
Harvard University ............... 236
Imputing Numeric and Qualitative Variables Simultaneously
- Michael Bankier, Jean-Marc Fillion, Manchi Luc, and Christian Nadeau, Statistics
Canada ............... 242
Census Plus: An Alternative Coverage Methodology
- Eric Schindler and Alfredo Navarro, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
248
Using Ethnographic Data to Evaluate Dual System
Estimates - Sally W. Thurston and Alan M. Zaslavsky, Harvard University
............... 254
Effects of Methodological Change in the Current
Population Survey - Cathryn S. Dippo, Donna L. Kostanich, and Anne E.
Polivka, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 260
National Employer Health Insurance Survey Sample
Design - David A. Marker and Edward C. Bryant, Westat, Inc.; Chris
Moriarity, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 264
Covering the Population of Unlicensed Board &
Care Homes: Problems and Solutions - Vincent Iannacchione, Battelle;
Judith Wildfire, Linda Lux, and Catherine Hawes, Research Triangle Institute
............... 270
An Estimation Strategy for the Combined Population
Represented by the NMES Household and Nursing Home Surveys - Steven B.
Cohen and D. E. B. Potter, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research ...............
276
The Survey of 1992 Health Expenditures: A Quick
Response Survey - Chester H. Ponikowski, Paul Scheible, and William Wiatrowski,
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 282
Are the Biases and Inefficiencies of the EPI
Method of Sampling Relatively Unimportant with Reasonable Between Village Variances?
- David J. Fitch, Rafael Flores, and Jorge Matute, INCAP ...............
288
The Use of Generalized Raking Procedures to Improve
the Quality of Small Domain Estimation - Guylaine Dubreuil and Johanne
Tremblay, Statistics Canada ............... 293
Raking Ratio Estimation: An Application to the
Canadian Monthly Retail Trade Survey - Z. Patak and M.A. Hidiroglou,
Statistics Canada ............... 299
Modeling Trends in Emergency Room Drug Abuse
Episodes - Charles K. Fairchild, CSR Inc. ............... 305
Relative Standard Error for a Ratio of Variables
at an Aggregate Level Under Model Sampling - James R. Knaub, Jr., U.S.
Department of Energy ............... 310
1994 National Census Test: Quantitative Comparisons
of Coverage - Joan M. Pausche, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
313
Coverage Implications of Using the Term "Usual
Residence" - Elizabeth M. Sweet and Nicholas S. Alberti, U.S. Bureau
of the Census ............... 319
Exploring Associations Between Subjective and
Objective Assessments of Household Membership - Laurie Schwede and Yukiko
Ellis, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 325
A Typology of Temporary Mobility Patterns and
Reporting of Usual Residence - Nancy Bates and Eleanor Gerber, U.S.
Bureau of the Census ............... 331
"Strivin,' Gettin' Over, and Keepin' People
Out of Our Business": Pushing Household Boundaries in Survey Data Collection
- Peter C. Hainer, Curry College ............... 337
Measurement of Different Design Effects -
Shail Butani, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; Lawrence Cahoon, Robert
Fay, and Donna Kostanich, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 342
Measuring the Effects of the Transition on Field
Performance - Clyde Tucker and Brian Kojetin, U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics; Richard Blass and Ronald Tucker, U.S. Bureau of the Census
............... 348
Predicting the National Unemployment Rate that
the "Old" CPS Would Have Produced - Richard Tiller and Michael Welch,
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 354
Discussion - Kennon R. Copeland, IMS
America ............... 360
Quality of Last Doctor Visit Reports: A Comparison
of Medical Record and Survey Data - Gina M. Jay, Robert F. Belli, and
James M. Lepkowski, University of Michigan ............... 362
Use of Last Physician Visit to Characterize Health
Care Utilization - Diane M. Makuc, Jennifer H. Madans, and Jacob J. Feldman,
National Center for Health Statistics ............... 368
Social Correlates of Response Bias in the National
Health Interview Survey: Lessons for the Redesign - Felicia B. LeClere
and P. Ellen Parsons, National Center for Health Statistics ...............
373
Discussion - Floyd Jackson Fowler, Jr.,
University of Massachusetts ............... 379
Imputation of Vacant Units in the Residential
Rent Index of the U.S. Consumer Price Index - Robert M. Baskin, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 382
Alternative Imputation Techniques for Proportions
of Income Variables for IRS Compliance Modeling - Chih-Chin Ho and William
Wong, Internal Revenue Service ............... 388
Variance Estimators for Variables That Have Both
Observed and Imputed Values - Sandra A. West, Diem-Tran Kratzke, and
Kenneth W. Robertson, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 394
Analysis of the Effects of Imputation on Variance
Estimates for the National Medical Expenditure Survey - John Paul Sommers,
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research ............... 400
Imputation of Medical Cost and Payment Data
- Amy M. England, Katie A. Hubbell, David R. Judkins, and Svetlana Ryaboy,
Westat, Inc. ............... 406
Imputing Income for an N-Person Consumer Unit
- Nanak Chand and Charles H. Alexander, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
412
Adjusting for Attrition in Event-History Analysis
- Daniel H. Hill, University of Michigan ............... 417
Adjusting for Panel Nonresponse in the Survey
of Income and Program Participation - Lou Rizzo, Graham Kalton, and Mike
Brick Westat, Inc.; Rita Petroni, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
422
Testing a New Attrition Nonresponse Adjustment
Method for SIPP - Ralph E. Folsom and Michael B. Witt, Research Triangle
Institute ............... 428
Regression Weighting Methods for SIPP Data -
Anthony B. An, F. Jay Breidt, and Wayne A. Fuller, Iowa State University
............... 434
Discussion - Constance F. Citro, National
Research Council; MichaelL. Cohen, Energy Information Administration
............... 440
Some Effects of Questionnaire Design on Reported
Rates of Victimization - D. Paton, Statistics Canada ...............
443
The Impact of Interviewer Characteristics on
Response in a National Survey of Violence Against Women - Douglas A.
Norris and Jeff Hatcher, Statistics Canada ............... 449
Underreporting of Harassment in Public Places
- David A. Northrup, York University ............... 455
Linking Individuals in a Capital Gains Panel
for Tax Policy Analysis - Susan C. Hostetter, Internal Revenue Service
............... 461
Advanced Methods for Record Linkage - William
E. Winkler, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 467
Administrative Record Matching for the 1992 Economic
Censuses - Philip M. Steel and Carl A. Konschnik, U.S. Bureau of
the Census ............... 473
Statistical Matching of Survey Datafiles: A Simulation
Study - Milorad S. Kovacevic and Tzen-Ping Liu, Statistics Canada
............... 479
An Application of Stochastic Optimization to
Combine Two Files - Richard A. Griffin, Chilton Research Services
............... 485
Correlations in Randomized Response Surveys -
Geun-Shik Han and William D. Warde, Oklahoma State University ...............
491
Risk and Loss Perceptions Associated with Survey
Reporting of Sensitive Behaviors - Kenneth A. Rasinski and Alison K Baldwin,
National Opinion Research Center; Gordon B. Willis and Jared B. Jobe,
National Center for Health Statistics ............... 497
Cognitive Research for the 1997 Census of Agriculture
Report Form - Glenn S. Wolfgang, U.S. Bureau of the Census; Paul
J. Lewis, Trilogy Consulting Corporation; E. Ann Vacca, U.S. Bureau
of the Census ............... 503
Touch-Tone Data Entry for Household Surveys:
Research Findings and Possible Applications - Ruth B. McKay, Edwin L.
Robison, and Athar B. Malik, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ...............
509
Conceptualizations of Job Search: Further Evidence
from Verbatim Responses - Judith M. Tanur, State University of New
York at Stony Brook ............... 512
Alternative Strategies for Imputing Premiums
and Predicting Expenditures Under Health Care Reform - Pat Doyle and
Dean Farley, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research ...............
517
Multiple Imputation of the 1983 and 1989 Waves
of the SCF - Arthur B. Kennickell, Federal Reserve Board; Douglas
A. McManus, Freddie Mac ............... 523
A Multiple Imputation Approach to Microsimulation
- B. K. Atrostic, U.S. Congressional Budget Office ............... 529
Error Analysis of Food Stamp Microsimulation
Models - Alan Zaslavsky and Sally Thurston, Harvard University ...............
535
Ratio Estimation of Hard-Core Drug Use -
Douglas Wright, Joseph Gfroerer, and Joan Epstein, Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration ............... 541
Characteristics of Persons Who Reported Driving
Under the Influence of Alcohol or Other Drugs - Janet C. Greenblatt,
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Darryl Bertolucci,
National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism ............... 547
Predictors of Drug Abuse Treatment Utilization
Among Frequent Cocaine Users - James D. Colliver, National Institute
on Drug Abuse; Joseph C. Gfroerer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration ............... 553
Estimating Substance Abuse Treatment Need from
the NHSDA - Joan F. Epstein, and Joseph C. Gfroerer, Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration ............... 559
Small Area Estimation for the National Household
Survey of Drug Abuse - Ralph E. Folsom and Jun Liu, Research Triangle
Institute ............... 565
The Influence of Motivational Appeals on Mailback
Response - James B. Treat, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
571
Improving Productivity in an Annual Survey of
Physicians - Sara L. Thran, American Medical Association; Theodore
Downes-Le Gui Griggs Anderson Research; Sandra Berry, RAND Corporation
............... 577
An Item Nonresponse and Log-Linear Analysis of
the Spanish Language Forms Availability Test - Manuel de la Puente and
Peter Wobus, Center for Survey Methods Research ............... 583
Field Substitutions—A Neglected Option?
- Vasja Vehovar, University of Ljubljana ............... 589
Exploring Hypothesis-Testing Procedures With
Multiply-Imputed Data Under Unequal Fractions of Missing Information - Steven
Pedlow and Xiao-Li Meng,The University of Chicago ...............
595
An Approximate Rao-Scott Modification Factor
in Two-Way Tables With Only Known Marginal DEFFS - Hee-Choon Shin,
National Opinion Research Center ............... 600
The Effect and Adjustment of Complex Surveys
on Chi-Squared Goodness of Fit Tests: Some Montecarlo Evidence - Victor
Aguirre-Torres and Alejandro Rios-Curil, ITAM ............... 602
Two-Sample McNemar Tests for Complex Survey Data
- Jenny Thompson and Robin Fisher, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
608
A Comparison of Nonparametric Methods With Parametric
Methods for the CPS CATI/CAPI Mode Effects Anaylsis - Jenny Thompson
and Randall Parmer, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 614
Logistic Regression Analysis of CPS Overlap Survey
Split Panel Data - Robin Fisher, U.S. Bureau of the Census
............... 620
Inverse Sampling Design Algorithms -
Susan Hinkins, H. Lock Oh, and Fritz Scheuren, Internal Revenue Service
............... 626
Redrawing the 1993 Farm Cost and Returns Survey
List Sample to Reduce Overlap With Three Other 1993 Surveys and the 1992 FCRS
- Charles Perry, Jameson Burt, and William Iwig, U.S. Department
of Agriculture ............... 632
Integrated Sampling of Education Institutions
- Michael P. Cohen, National Center for Education Statistics
............... 638
Feasibility Study of the Use of Chromy's Algorithm
in Poisson-Sample Selection for the Annual Survey of Manufactures -
Laura Zayatz and Richard Sigman, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
641
An Evaluation of an Estimation Procedure from
a DSRDD Telephone Sample Design, or How Well Do Sample Weights Work -
Charles D. Palit, University of Wisconsin, Madison ...............
647
Developing a Concept of Population in Survey
Sampling Consistent With That in Experimental Statistics - C. H.
Proctor, North Carolina State University ............... 653
Use of Administrative Data in SIPP Longitudinal
Estimation - Suzanne M. Dorinski and Hertz Huang, U.S.
Bureau of the Census ............... 656
Mover Nonresponse Adjustment Research for the
Survey of Income and Program Participation - Tiwanda M. Allen
and Rita J. Petroni, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 662
The Redesign of the Survey of Income and Program
Participation - Vicki J. Huggins and Donald P. Fischer, U.S. Bureau
of the Census ............... 668
Oversampling in Panel Surveys - Rajendra
P. Singh, Rita J. Petroni, and Tiwanda M. Allen, U.S. Bureau of the Census
............... 674
Discussion - Sylvie Michaud and Pierre
Lavallée, Statistics Canada ............... 680
An Application of Mathematical Programming to
Sample Allocation - Richard Valliant, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics;
James E. Gentle, George Mason University ............... 683
Sample Allocation in Multivariate Stratified
Design: An Alternative to Convex Programming - M. A. Rahim and Wisner
Jocelyn, Statistics Canada ............... 689
Applying the Lavallée and Hidiroglou Method
to Obtain Stratification Boundaries for the Census Bureau's Annual Capital Expenditures
Survey - John Slanta and Thomas Krenzke, U.S. Bureau of the Census
............... 693
The 1995 Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program
(TCMP) Sample Redesign-A Case History - Wendy Rotz, Jeri Mulrow, and
Eric Falk, Internal Revenue Service ............... 699
Optimum Sample Design for Personal-Visit Establishment
Surveys - David W. Chapman, Klemm Analysis Group ...............
704
The Influence of Administration Mode on Responses
to Numeric Rating Scales - Roberta L. Sangster, U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics; Todd H. Rockwood and Don A. Dillman, Washington State University
............... 708
A Records - Survey Comparison of Eligibility
and Health Care Utilization Measures for Medicaid Beneficiaries: Adult and Child
Reports - Donna Eisenhower andAngela Schmitt, Mathematica Policy
Research, Inc. ............... 713
Analysis of Self and Proxy Responses in the Assessment
of Health Status - Mamatha Swamy, Agency for Health Care Policy and
Research ............... 719
An Experiment to Reduce Measurement Error in
the SIPP: Preliminary Results - Kent H. Marquis, Jeffrey C. Moore, and
Karen Bogen, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 725
The Influence of Implicit Methodologies in the
Analysis of the CCO and the CPS - Yves Thibaudeau, Donna Kostanich, and
Randall Parmer, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 730
The Role of Questionnaire Design in Reducing
Census Coverage Error - Elizabeth A. Martin and Deborah H. Griffin, U.S.
Bureau of the Census ............... 736
New Applications of Sampling and Estimation in
the 1995 Census Test - Mary H. Mulry and Rajendra P. Singh, U.S.
Bureau of the Census ............... 742
Master Address File: Update Methodology and Quality
Improvement Program - Philip M. Gbur, Machell Kindred, and Michael L.
Mersch, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 748
Discussion - Tommy Wright, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory ............... 754
New CASIC Technologies at the U.S. Bureau of
the Census - William L. Nicholls II and Martin V. Appel, U.S. Bureau
of the Census ............... 757
Converting Mail Reporters to Touchtone Data Entry
- Richard J. Rosen, Richard L. Clayton, and Lynda L. Pivetz, U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics ............... 763
Results from a Feasibility Test of an Alternative
Automated Data Capture Methodology During the 1992 Census of Agriculture
- Magdalena Ramos, Bruce Hughes, and Betty McKay, U.S. Bureau of the
Census ............... 769
Desktop Documentation: Individual Income Tax
Microdata, SOI - Martin David, University of Wisconsin, Madison ...............
775
Developing Metadata Database at the Census Bureau
- Daniel W. Gillman and Martin V. Appel, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
781
Weighting Schemes for Household Panel Surveys
- Graham Kalton and J. Michael Brick, Westat, Inc. ............... 785
Income Stratification in Panel Surveys: Issues
in Design and Estimation - John L. Czajka, Mathematica Policy Research,
Inc. ............... 791
Introducing Births Into the Employment Cost Index
Survey - Mary K. Gessley, E. Thomas Kelly, and Chester H. Ponikowski,
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 797
The National Population Health Survey: Design
and Issues - M.P. Singh, J.L. Tambay, and S. Krawchuk, Statistics
Canada ............... 803
Longitudinal Imputation of SIPP Food Stamp Benefits
- Antoinette Tremblay, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 809
Some Data Issues in School-Based Surveys
- Daniel Kasprzyk and Kerry Gruber, National Center for Education Statistics;
Sameena Salvucci, Mehrdad Saba, Fan Zhang, and Steven Fink, Synectics
for Management Decisions ............... 815
The 1991-92 Teacher Follow-up Survey Reinterview
and Extensive Reconciliation - Cleo R. Jenkins and Angela-Jo Wetzel,
U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 821
Improving Coverage in a National Survey of Teachers
- Daniel Royce and Irwin Schreiner, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
827
Improving the Coverage of Private Elementary-Secondary
Schools - Betty J. Jackson, Richard L. Frazier, Karen E. King, and Dennis
J. Schwanz, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 833
Data Quality of Income Data Using Computer Assisted
Interviewing: The Experience of the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics
- Chantal Grondin and Sylvie Michaud, Statistics Canada ...............
839
Measuring Interviewer Performance Using CAPI
- Mick P. Couper, Sally A. Sadoslcy, and Sue Ellen Hansen, University
of Michigan ............... 845
CAPI: An Experimental Evaluation - Reg
Baker, Norman Bradburn, and Robert Johnson, National Opinion Research Center
............... 851
Problems, Trade-Offs, and Solutions for CAPI
Surveys - John S. Gardenier, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
............... 857
Discussion - Bill Connett, University
of Michigan ............... 861
Optimally Weighted Means in Stratified Sampling
- Jiahe Qian, National Opinion Research Center; Bruce D. Spencer,
Northwestern University ............... 863
Composite Weights for the Current Population
Survey - Janice Lent, and Stephen Miller, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics;
Patrick Cantwell, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 867
Composite Estimation in National and State Surveys
- John Burke, Leyla Mohadjer, Jim Green, and Joseph Waksberg, Westat,
Inc.; Irwin S. Kirsch, Educational Testing Service; Andrew Kolstad,
National Center for Education Statistics ............... 873
Poststratification of Pooled Survey Data
- Mansour Fahimi, Westat, Inc. ............... 879
Weighting Sample Data When Multiple Sample Frames
are Used - Barbara Lepidus Carlson and John W. Hall, Mathematica
Policy Research, Inc. ............... 882
Estimation of the Variance in the Presence of
Nearest Neighbour Imputation - Eric Rancourt, Carl Sdrndal, and Hyunshik
Lee, Statistics Canada ............... 888
Exploring Cross-Match Estimators With Multiply-Imputed
Data Sets - John Barnard and Xiao-Li Meng, The University of Chicago
............... 894
Analyzing Imputed Survey Data Sets With Model
Assisted Estimators - Robert E. Fay, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
900
Discussion - John G. Kovar, Statistics
Canada ............... 906
Redesigning the Canadian Labour Force Survey
Questionnaire: Development and Testing - Deborah Sunter and Mark Kinack,
Statistics Canada ............... 908
Sample Allocation for the Canadian Labour Force
Survey - Ijaz U.H. Mian and Normand Laniel, Statistics Canada ...............
913
Design and Estimation Issues for Income in the
Redesign of the Canadian Labour Force Survey - E.J. Chen, J. Gambino,
N. Laniel, and J. Lindeyer, Statistics Canada ............... 919
Cost Modelling of Alternative Sample Designs
for Rural Areas in the Canadian Labour Force Survey - Harold Mantel,
Normand Laniel, Marie-Claude Duval, and Jocelyne Marion, Statistics Canada
............... 925
Analysis of Urban Cluster Size in the Canadian
Labour Force Survey - Normand Laniel and Chris Mohl, Statistics Canada
............... 931
Control Charts for Non-Response Rates in the
Canadian Labour Force Survey - K.P. Hapuarachchi and A. Wronski, Statistics
Canada ............... 937
Nonresponse and its Effects in a Followup
Telephone Survey of Low Income Women - William D. Kalsbeek and Todd
A. Durham, University of North Carolina ............... 943
An Evaluation of Nonresponse Bias in NHANES
III (1988-91) - Meena Khare and Trena M. Ezzati-Rice, National Center
for Health Statistics; Leyla K Mohadjer and Joseph Waksberg, Westat,
Inc. ............... 949
Modeling of Response Propensity in the Third
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey - Trena M. Ezzati-Rice
and Meena Khare, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 955
A Revised Theory of Longitudinal Nonresponse
- Monica L. Wolford, University of Michigan ............... 960
Characteristics of Nonrespondents to the Current
Population Survey (CPS) and Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey (CEIS)
- Brian A. Kojetin, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 966
Investigating Nonresponse in Federal Surveys
- Carolyn F. Shettle, National Science Foundation; Patricia M. Guenther,
Agricultural Research Service; Daniel Kaspryzk, National Center for
Education Statistics; Maria Elena Gonzalez, Office of Management and
Budget ............... 972
Response in Federally Sponsored Establishment
Surveys - Jeffrey B. Osmint, U.S. Bureau of Mines; Paul B. McMahon,
Internal Revenue Service; Antoinette Ware Martin, Energy Information
Administration ............... 977
Nonresponse m Federal Demographic Surveys: 1981-1991
- Ayah E. Johnson, Henry M. Jackson Foundation; Steven L. Botman,
National Center for Health Statistics; Peter Basiotis, U.S. Department
of Agriculture ............... 983
Model-Based Reweighting for Nonresponse Adjustment
- David A. Binder, Sylvie Michaud, and Claude Poirier, Statistics Canada
............... 989
The Impact of Dropping the Business Area Sample
as a Means of Covering Birth Employers and Nonemployers in the Current Business
Surveys - Carl A. Konschnik, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
995
Statistics of Income Partnership Studies: Evaluation
of Preliminary Estimates - Paul B. McMahon, Internal Revenue Service
............... 1001
A Response Model for the International Price
Program - Gwyn R. Ferguson and Tamara M. Ciapponi, U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics ............... 1007
One Way to Build an Estimator With Applications
to Sampling Theory - Steve Woodruff, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
............... 1013
1992 Census of Agriculture Coverage Evaluation
Estimation - Paul J. Lewis, Trilogy Consulting Corporation; Glenn
S. Wolfgang and E. Ann Vacca, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
1019
Commercial Payroll Software and the Quality of
Employment Data - Karen L. Goldenberg, Susan E. Moore, and Richard J.
Rosen, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 1025
The Reliability of the Locality Pay Estimates
- Joan L. Coleman and Penny L. James, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
............... 1031
Confidence Intervals for Sub-Domain Means and
Totals - Robert J. Casady and Alan Dorfinan, U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics; Suojin Wang, Texas A&M University ............... 1036
Reducing Nonsampling Error in the Bureau of Labor
Statistics Occupational Compensation Surveys - Elizabeth Dietz, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 1042
Updating Occupational Compensation Survey Program
Data Using the Employment Cost Index - Jason Tehonica, U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics ............... 1048
Two-Phase Estimation by Imputation - Anita
McVey, F. Jay Breidt, and Wayne A. Fuller, Iowa State University ...............
1053
Rank-Based Predictive Inference for the Finite
Population Mean of a Small Area - M. Mushfiqur Rashid and Balgobin Nandram,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute ............... 1059
Synthetic Estimates for Small Areas in PRAMS
- Christopher H. Johnson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
............... 1065
The Relative Accuracy of Direct and Indirect
Estimates of State Poverty Rates - Allen L. Schirm, Mathematica Policy
Research, Inc. ............... 1071
State Unemployment Rate Time Series Models
- Tamara Sue Zimmerman, Thomas D. Evans, and Richard B. Tiller, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 1077
Substance Abuse Among Runaway and Homeless Youth
- Ronaldo Iachan, Chris L. Ringwalt, and Jody M. Greene, Research Triangle
Institute ............... 1083
The Validity of Self-Reported Drug Use Among
the Incarcerated - David Cantor, Westat, Inc.; Gregory Gaertner
and Linda Keil, Gallup, Inc. ............... 1088
Estimating the Prevalence of Substance Abuse
Among People Who Are Homeless - Ronaldo Iachan, Michael L. Dennis, and
Robert M. Bray, Research Triangle Institute ............... 1094
Sample Design of the National Pregnancy and Health
Survey - Ralph DiGaetano, John Ward, Diane Cadell, and Lana Ryaboy, Westat,
Inc. ............... 1100
Intersurvey Consistency in School Surveys
- Albert Holt, Synectics for Management Decisions; Steven Kaufman,
National Center for Education Statistics; Fritz Scheuren, George
Washington University; Wray Smith, Synectics for Management Decisions
............... 1105
Estimation Issues Related to the Student Component
of the SASS - Karen Ellen King, U.S. Bureau of the Census; Steve
Kaufman, National Center of Education Statistics ............... 1111
Properties of the Schools and Staffing Survey's
Bootstrap Variance Estimator - Steven Kaufman, National Center for
Education Statistics ............... 1116
Optimal Periodicity of a Survey: Sampling Error,
Data Deterioration, and Cost - Dhiren Ghosh, Synectics for Management
Decisions; Steven F. Kaufman, National Center for Education Statistics;
Wray Smith and Michael Chang, Synectics for Management Decisions ...............
1122
Discussion - Gary Shapiro, Abt Associates
............... 1128
A Comparison of Two Methods of Automated
Industry Coding - John H. Rowland and Mark D. Kinack, Statistics
............... 1130
A Data Collection Methodology for the 2001 Canadian
Census - G. H. Choudhry, Statistics Canada ............... 1134
Improving Outlier Detection in Two Establishment
Surveys - Julia L. Bienias, David M. Lassman, Scott A. Scheleur, and
Howard Hogan, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 1140
Development of Edit Parameters for 1992 Economic
Census Enterprise Reports - Sungsoo Oh, Dave Paletz, Jay Kim, and Eddie
Salyers, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 1144
Evaluation of the Canadian Potato Area Estimation
Program - Patricia J. Whitridge and Claude Poirier, Statistics Canada
............... 1150
Measuring and Reporting Nonresponse Rates in
Agricultural Surveys - Laurent Roy, Statistics Canada ...............
1156
Sample Surveys at National Center for Health
Statistics - Jai Won Choi and Lester R. Curtin, National Center for
Health Statistics ............... 1162
Estimation and Analysis Effects Resulting from
a Sample Size Reduction in a Large National Survey - Steven L. Botman,
National Center for Health Statistics ............... 1168
Accelerated Sequential Procedure to Estimate
the Mean of Unknown Distribution - H. I. Hamdy and M.S. Son, University
of Vermont ............... 1173
Comparison of National and Regional Gasoline
Prices from Two Surveys - Pedro J. Saavedra and Nancy C. Hassett, Macro
International Inc.; Paula Weir, U.S. Department of Energy ...............
1179
The Challenges of Preparing Sensitive Data for
Public Release - Gerhard Fries, Federal Reserve Board; R. Louise
Woodburn, Internal Revenue Service ............... 1184
State Estimates for the National Health Interview
Survey Using a Random Digit Dialing Supplement - Donald Malec and Van
L. Parsons, National Center for Health Statistics ............... 1190
Conducting Global Consumer Research: Considerations
and Pitfalls - Susan L. Mendelsohn, Chip Walker, and Hank Bernstein,
D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, Inc. ............... 1196
Non-Response to Sensitive Questions: Nationalism
in Germany - Dagmar Krebs, Center for Survey Research, Methodology
and Analyses (ZUMA) ............... 1199
The Cognitive Evaluation of the Nativity Questions
for the Current Population Survey - Tracy Wellens, U.S. Bureau of
the Census ............... 1204
Results from a Cognitive Exploration of the 1993
American Housing Survey - Dawn R. Von Thurn and Jeffrey C. Moore, U.S.
Bureau of the Census ............... 1210
Cognitive Issues and Methodological Implications
in the Development and Testing of a Traffic Safety Questionnaire - Susan
Schechter and Paul Beatty, National Center for Health Statistics; Alan
Block, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ............... 1215
Prospects for Measuring the Child Radio Audience
in the U.S. Using the Seven-Day Personal Diary Method - Robert H. Patchen,
Bonnie B. Burgess, and Marla D. Cralley, The Arbitron Company ...............
1220
Issues and Guidelines for Translation in Cross-Cultural
Research - Beverly Weidmer, RAND Corporation ............... 1226
Evaluating Translations of Survey Instruments
in Spanish and English: The 1990 Spanish Language Census Long Form - Susan
M. Gabbard and Jorge Nakamoto, Agnirre International ............... 1232
Response to a Government Survey as Political
Participation: The Relation of Economic and Political Conditions to Refusal
Rates in the Current Population Survey - Brian Kojetin, Clyde Tucker,
and Erin Cashman, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 1236
Does "I'm Not Selling Anything" Increase
Response Rates in Telephone Surveys? - Bruce Pinkleton, Joey Reagan,
Dustin Aaronson, and Eduard Ramo, Washington State University ...............
1242
Confidentiality Issues in Videotaped Data Collection
- Ann E. Cederlund, National Opinion Research Center ...............
1248
Can We Get Respondents to Use Their Personal
Income Records - Karen Bogen, Jeffrey C. Moore, and Kent H. Marquis,
U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 1252
Improving Validity of Parental Reports of Child
Immunization Status in a Telephone Survey - Lois M. Haggard and Donald
Z. Gray, University of Utah ............... 1258
Increasing Response Rates in Follow-Up Surveys
of Drug Treatment Patients - Robert Johnson, Kay Malloy, Dean Gerstein,
and Natalie Suter, National Opinion Research Center; Susan Nisenbaum,
California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs ............... 1263
Hidden Assumptions: The Use of Vignettes in Cognitive
Interviewing - Eleanor R. Gerber, U.S. Bureau of the Census ...............
1269
An Examination of Mode Effects in Cognitive Laboratory
Research - Paul Beatty and Susan Schechter, National Center for Health
Statistics ............... 1275
A Cognitive and Linguistic Exploration of the
Meaning of Training: Implications for Survey Design - Pamela Campanelli,
SCPR; Joanna Channell and Liz McAulay, University of Birmingham;
Antoinette Renouf, University of Liverpool; Roger Thomas, SCPR
............... 1281
Coverage Error and Cost Issues in Small Area
Telephone Surveys - Judith A. Schejbal and Paul J. Lavrakas, Northwestern
University ............... 1287
Bias in List-Assisted Telephone Samples -
J. Michael Brick and Joseph Waksberg, Westat, Inc.; Dale Kulp and
Amy Starer, GENESYS Sampling Systems ............... 1293
The Effect of Varying the Respondent Selection
Script on Respondent Self-Selection in RDD Telephone Surveys - Kristina
S. Romuald and Lois M. Haggard, University of Utah ............... 1299
Counting Gays and Lesbians: A Case for "New"
Survey Methods - Brad Edwards, Westat, Inc. ............... 1305
Spoken Language Recognition of the Year 2000
Census Questionnaire Feasibility Test - Martin V. Appel, U.S. Bureau
of the Census; Ronald Cole, Center for Spoken Language Understanding
............... 1310
Interactive Polling and Americans' Comfort Level
With Technology - Kathleen A. Frankovic, Cheryl Mercado Arnedt, and Bala
Ramnath, CBS News ............... 1316
Effects of Rank Versus Category in Measuring
Subjective Social Inequality - Jurgen H.P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Center
for Survey Research, Methodology and Analysis ZUMA ............... 1322
The Basis of Norms for Vague Quantifiers
- Colm 0'Muircheartaigh and George Gaskell, London School of Economics
and Political Science ............... 1327
Effects of Benefits Appeals, Mandatory Appeals
and Variations in Statements of Confidentiality on Completion Rates for Census
Questionnaires - Don A. Dillman, Eleanor Singer, Jon R. Clark, and James
B. Treat, U.S. Bureau of the Census ............... 1333
A Spatial Analysis of Contextual Effects on Voter
Participation in the 1992 Presidential Election - Kurt C. Schlichting,
Fairfield University; Peter S. Tuckel, Hunter College ...............
1339
Strategies for Estimating Category Frequency:
Effects of Abstractness and Distinctiveness - Frederick G. Conrad, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics; Norman R. Brown, University of Alberta ...............
1345
Cognitive Aspects of Organizational Reporting
- Seymour Sudman and Joan M. Phillips, University of Illinois ...............
1351
Answering Questions, Questioning Answers: Evaluating
Data Quality in an Establishment Survey - Karen L. Goldenberg, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics ............... 1357
Using an Establishment Survey Response Model,
and Focus Groups in the Redesign of an Establishment Survey Questionnaire
- Young I. Chun and Deborah Stone, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ...............
1363
Scheduling Initial Calls in a Telephone Survey
of Businesses - W. Sherman Edwards and Patricia Cunningham, Westat,
Inc. ............... 1368
Design-Oriented Focus Groups and Cognitive Laboratories:
A Comparison - Donna L. Eisenhower, Mathematica Policy Research,
Inc. ............... 1374
Economic Knowledge and Public Opinion on Economic
Issues - William B. Walstad, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ...............
1380
Effects of Incentive Payments on Response Rates
and Field Costs in a Pretest of a National CAPI Survey - Allen Duffer,
Research Triangle Institute; Judith Lessler and Michael Weeks, Battelle;
William Mosher, National Center for Health Statistics ...............
1386