2001 Research Conference
2001 Research Conference
Resources and Proceedings
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PLENARY
The Interplay between Research Innovation and Federal Statistical Practice
SESSION I - Stephen Fienberg
SESSION II-A
MODEL-BASED SURVEY ESTIMATION; BAYESIAN STATISTICAL METHODS AND SOFTWARE
Small Area Estimates from the American Community Survey Using a Housing Unit Model
Nanak Chand and Donald Malec
Measuring the Number of People Without Health Insurance: A Test of a Synthetic Estimates Approach for Small Area Estimates Using SIPP Microdata
Diagrams
Carole Popoff, Dean Judson, and Betsy Fadali
A New Approach to Hierarchical Bayes Modeling for Small Area Estimation with Surveys
Avinash Singh, R.E. Folsom, Jr., and A. K. Vaish
Approximation Methods for Covariance Matrix Estimators Used in Analysis of Diary and Interview Data from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey
Diagrams 1-4
Diagrams 5-6
John Eltinge and Amang Sukasih
SESSION II-B
DATA MINING, DATA WAREHOUSING, AND METADATA
An NLP Approach for Improving Access to Statistical Information for the Masses
Elizabeth Liddy and Jennifer Liddy
The Reality of Metadata: Are Common Data Definitions Possible?
Renee Miller, Jacob Bournazian, Dwight French, Marry Ellen Golby, Perry Lindstrom, and Louis Schloss
Studies of Metadata Creation and Usage
Carol Hert
Operations Research/Statistics Techniques: A Key to Quantitative Data Mining
Jorge Romeu
SESSION III-A
USES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR DATA COLLECTION, PROCESSING AND DISSEMINATION, PART 1
Computer Audio Recorded Interviewing (CARI): Additional Feasibility Efforts of Monitoring Field Interview Performance
Deborah Herget, Paul Biemer, Jeremy Morton, and Kelly Sand
Scanning Technology Can Improve Time-Use Studies
Patricia Donahue, Lynn Musser, Thomas Slomba, Judy Hoovler, Tina Kinney, and Consuelo Bangs
Strategies to Implement Electronic Collection of Multiple Worksite Report Data
Michael Searson
Formal Discussion: Martha Johnson
SESSION III-B
TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA
Matt Fetter
Automatic Interaction Detection for Imputation – Tests with the WAID Software Package
Pasi Piela and Seppo Laaksonen
Michael Greene, Linda Smith, Mark Levenson, Signe Hiser, and Jean Mah
Formal Discussion
Nathaniel Schenker
SESSION IV-A
USES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR DATA COLLECTION, PROCESSING, AND DISSEMINATION, PART II
Laying the Foundation for Electronic Dissemination: Statistics Canada’s Output Database, CANSIM II
Louis Boucher
Security Screening and Knowledge Management in the Department of Defense
David Lloyd and Nancy Spruill
Usability Testing for the Energy Information Administration’s Info-Centric Web Site
Colleen Blessing, Robert Rutchik, Howard Bradsher-Fredrick, Herbert Miller, and Renee Miller
Developing Internet Dissemination in Step with Client Expectations
Pamela Best
SESSION IV-B
IMPROVING COVERAGE AND RESPONSE RATES
Experiences with Incentives in a Public Attitudes Survey Using RDD
Ron Fecso
Detis Duhart, Nancy Bates, Barbara Williams, Gregg Diffendal, and Pei Lu Chiu
Michael Horrigan, Rupa Datta, and James Walker
Incentive Effects Across Gender Groups in a Federal Survey on Sexual Behavior and Fertility
Robert Groves, William Mosher, and Eleanor Singer
SESSION V-A
CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLOSURE ISSUES IN DATA RELEASE AND DATA LINKAGE,
PART 1
On Disclosure Protection for Nontraditional Statistical Outputs
Arnold Reznek and David Merrell
Methods for Data Directed Microaggregation in One or More Dimensions
Gordon Sande
Using Synthetic Data Sets to Satisfy Disclosure Restrictions
Jerome Reiter
A Disclosure Treatment Strategy of Public Use Micro Data Files Based Upon Optimal Sampling Design Considerations
A.C. Singh, Moshe Feder, George Dunteman, and Feng Yu
SESSION V-B
ESTIMATION AND VARIANCE ESTIMATION
A General Method for Estimating the Variances of X11-ARIMA Estimators
Luisa Burck and Michail Sverchkov
Design and Estimation Innovations in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey for the Measurement of Health Care Quality and Expenditures
Steven Cohen
Harold Mantel, Milorad Kovacevic, Owen Phillips, and Georgia Roberts
Current Population Survey State-Level Variance Estimation
Richard Griffiths and Khandaker Mansur
SESSION VI-A
CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLOSURE ISSUES IN DATA RELEASE AND DATA LINKAGE,
PART 2
Balancing Confidentiality and Burden Concerns in Censuses and Surveys of Large Businesses
Elizabeth Nichols and Diane Willimack
Diane Willimack
Patricia Doyle, Nancy Bates, and Gerald Gates
Eleanor Singer
SESSION VI-B
STATISTICAL USES OF ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS
Changes in the Use of Education Administrative Records: The Common Core of Data
Lee Hoffman and Beth Young
Using Administrative Data in Lieu of Survey Responses for Small Businesses
Anthony Myers, David Kinyon, and Carol King
The Assessment of Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), Benefit Data Using Longitudinal Administrative Records
Kalman Rupp, Minh Huynh, and James Sears
Formal Discussion: Fritz Scheuren
SESSION VII-A
INTERNET AND OTHER FORMS OF DATA COLLECTION
AESDirect – Internet Data Collection of U.S. Export Information
Charles Woods
Social Presence in Web Surveys
Roger Tourangeau, Mick Couper, and Darby Steiger
Probability Based Internet Surveys: A Synopsis of Early Methods and Survey Research Results
Vicki Huggins and Joe Eyeman
Formal Discussion: Tim Gabel
SESSION VII-B
SAMPLE DESIGN AND ESTIMATION
Sample Size Considerations for Multilevel Surveys
Michael Cohen
Two-Sided Coverage Intervals for Small Proportions Based on Survey Data
Phillip Kott, Per Gösta Andersson, and Olle Nerman
Formal Discussion
Stephen Haslett
SESSION VIII-A
ISSUES IN GEOSPATIAL DATA COLLECTION
Using Digital Geospatial Information to Locate Sample Units in the Field
Sarah Nusser and Jean Fox
Geospatial Data Collection and Analysis as Crucial Processes in an Integrated Census
Olivia Blum and Rinat Calvo
Evaluating the Use of Residential Mailing Addresses in a Metropolitan Household Survey
Vincent Iannacchione, Jennifer Staab, and David Redden
Shoreh Elhami
SESSION VIII-B
COGNITIVE RESEARCH AND USABILITY TESTING IN SURVEY PROCESSES
Optimizing Survey Measurement Accuracy by Matching Question Design to Respondent Memory Organization
Jon Krosnick and Michael Silver
Clarifying Survey Questions When Respondents Don’t Know They Need Clarification
Frederick Conrad and Michael Schober
Usability Methods for Designing a Computer-Assisted Data Collection Instrument for the CPI
Jean Fox
Building Usability into Electronic Data-Collection Forms for Economic Censuses and Surveys
Elizabeth Murphy, Elizabeth Nichols, Amy Anderson, M. Diane Harley, and Kimberly Pressley
Federal Statistics: The “Right” Balance between Accountability and Autonomy
Kenneth Prewitt
SESSION X-A
DATA QUALITY AND NONSAMPLING ERROR, PART 1
Investigation of Selective Editing Procedures Using Quinquennial Data
Katherine Thompson and Susan Hostetter
Why Evaluate Business Data Collections?
Martin David
Classifying Open Ended Reports: Coding Occupation in the Current Population Survey
Frederick Conrad and Mick Couper
Using Respondent Requests for Help to Develop Quality Data Collection Instruments: The 2000 Census of Agriculture Content Test
Jaki McCarthy
SESSION X-B
NEW APPROACHES IN SAMPLE DESIGN, ESTIMATION AND RECORD LINKAGE
Changes in Sampling Units in Surveys of Businesses
Jock Black
Designing Samples to Satisfy Many Variance Constraints
Donna Glassbrenner
A Partial Order Approach to Record Linkage
Dean Judson
Gary Shapiro
SESSION XI-A
DATA QUALITY AND NONSAMPLING ERROR, PART 2
Delivering and Measuring Data Quality in UK National Statistics
Marta Haworth and Jean Martin
Effects of the Level of Interviewer Effort on the Characteristics of Completed Responses: An Experiment Using the 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances
Marianne Bitler and John Wolken
The Quality vs. Timeliness Tradeoff in BLS ES-202 Administrative Statistics
Akbar Sadeghi and Richard Clayton
Daniel Kasprzyk
SESSION XI-B
CENSUS AND SURVEY EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES
Estimating Reliability and Bias from Reinterviews with Application to the 1998 Dress Rehearsal Race Question
Paul Biemer and Henry Woltman
Can We Ignore the Migration of Income Tax Nonfilers When Benchmarking the American Community Survey’s County Estimates?
Yves Thibaudeau
The 2002 U.S. Census of Agriculture Data Processing System
Chadd Crouse and Kara Perritt
Formal Discussion
Charles Alexander