Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology 2018 Research and Policy Conference
Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology 2018 Research and Policy Conference
Advances in Web Scraping for Federal Statistics
Web-scraping & Similar Tools to Capture Information for BLS Uses | (PDF)
SABLE: Tools for Web Crawling, Web Scraping, and Text Classification | (PDF)
Evaluating the Use of Web-Scraped List Frames to Assess Undercoverage in Surveys
Seizing Opportunities and Preserving Principles | (PDF)
Museum Frame Development – A Universe is Comprised of Many Worlds
Does Survey Response Change Respondent Behavior?
Speeders and Sloths: The Effects of Respondent Timing on Web Survey Data Quality
Response Burden and Bias in the First National Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS-1): An Empirical Analysis Based on Respondent Feedback Survey | (PDF)
Changes in Interview Length over a Data Collection Period: Interviewer Learning or Shifting Respondent Characteristics?
Smart Math Saves Time and Improves Communication | (PDF)
Joanne Hsu (Federal Reserve Board)
Evaluating Wealth Data in the Redesigned 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation | (PDF)
Discussant: Howard Iams (Social Security Administration)
A-3_Discussant.pdf | (PDF)
Benchmark Assessment of Respondent Driven Sampling Data for Foreign-Born Korean Americans | (PDF)
Comparing Alternatives for Estimation from Nonprobability Samples
Combining Probability and Nonprobability Samples to Form Efficient Hybrid Estimates | (PDF)
Discussant: Courtney Kennedy (Pew Research Center)
A-4KennedyDISCUSSION WEDSession A-4_1000-1145am.pdf | (PDF)
Session Chair Introduction | (PDF)
Overview of Transparent Quality Reporting | (PDF)
Quality of Input Data | (PDF)
Quality of Data Processing | (PDF)
Quality of Output Statistical Products and Services | (PDF)
An Automated Refusal Conversion Strategy for Web Surveys | (PDF)
Using Close-Ended Web Probes to Inform the Redesign of the National Health | (PDF)
The Roles of Typicality, Specificity, and Set Size in Providing Examples for Survey Questions: Evidence from an Online Study Using Self-Administered Comprehension Probes
Benefits and Drawbacks of Using Crowdsourcing Techniques for Cognitive Testing | (PDF)
Impact of Dependent Interviewing on Consistency of Answers in the American Housing Survey | (PDF)
Innovative Approaches to Generating National and Regional Estimates of Crime and Arrest with Incomplete Data
Evaluating Hot Deck with Propensity Matching for the Advance Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MARTS) | (PDF)
Assessing the Automated Imputation of Missing and Erroneous Survey Data: A Simulation-Based Approach | (PDF)
Edit Reduction Research in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Economic Directorate | (PDF)
Household Incomes in Tax Data: Using Addresses to Move from Tax Unit to Household Income Distributions | (PDF)
Calculating a Supplemental Poverty Measure in the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Sampling Design and Variance Estimation for the National Survey of WIC Participants, Wave 3
Implications of Repeated Sampling in a Crime Survey | (PDF)
Assessing How Well Students in Economics Experiments Model Decision-Making for Non-Student Populations | (PDF)
Using Social Media for a Probability Sample: Is It Possible? | (PDF)
Comparing Random and Nonrandom Samples Using Model-Implied Randomization
Vladislav Beresovsky (National Center for Health Statistics)
Effect of Contact Strategy on Response Mode Selection
Adaptive Designs - Tailoring of Contact Materials to Increase Survey Participation
If We Boost It, Will They Come?: Evaluating Efforts to Promote Web Completion in a Multi-Mode National Establishment Survey
Reducing Collection Effort While Maintaining Data Quality in Business Surveys Comparing Random and Nonrandom Samples Using Model-Implied Randomization
Coding Verbatim Responses Using an Auto-coding Program Based on a Two-step Matching Process: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Emergency Department Data, 2015
Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms to Build a Predictive Model for Classification of Survey Write-in Responses
Using Machine Learning Techniques to Interpret Open-ended Responses in Web Surveys
Moving to the Median: The Case for Changing the Range of Expenditures Underlying SPM Thresholds
Controlling for Prices before Estimating SPM Thresholds and the Impact on SPM Poverty Statistics
Enhancing the Supplemental Poverty Measure to Estimate the Impact of Health Insurance Benefits on Poverty
Supplemental Poverty Measure: A Comparison of Geographic Adjustments with Regional Price Parities vs. Median Rents from the American Community Survey: An Update
Web-scraping & Benchmarking Options for Model-Based CountyLevel Estimation of Agricultural Cash Rental Rates
Small Area Estimation in the Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll (U.S. Census Bureau)
County-Level Estimates of Mortality and Natality Indicators from the National Vital Statistics Systema
Bayesian State-level Estimates of Diabetes Prevalence in the United States, 2006-2015
Measuring Systematic Income Misreporting Heterogeneity Using a Novel Dataset
Respondents' Reporting Accuracy of Social Security Benefits and its Implications in the Health and Retirement Study
Using Administrative Records to Evaluate Absolute and Relative Reporting Accuracy in Surveys
Understanding Differences in the Disability Prevalence Across Federal Surveys: Why the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation Stands Out
Small Domain Estimation Using Probability and Non-Probability Survey Data
On Increasing the Number of County-Level Crop Estimates
Small Area Estimation for Measures Related to Tobacco Use and Policies Using the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey
Small Area Co-Modeling of Point Estimates and Their Variances for Domains in the Current Employment Statistics Survey
Yulei He (National Center for Health Statistics)
Organizer and Session Chair: Peter Miller (U.S. Census Bureau)
Lessons from Nonresponse Bias Studies Involving Federal Surveys
Nonresponse Bias Indicators and Adjustments Employed in Federal Surveys
Alternative Indicators of the Risk for Nonresponse Bias
Discussant: Roger Tourangeau (Westat)
Examining the Utility of Educational Administrative Records for Research and Improving Survey Operations: A Pilot Project at the U.S. Census Bureau
Leveraging Access to and Use of Department of Defense (DoD) Data: A Case Study of Unraveling Military Attrition Tohrough New Approaches to DoD Data Integration
Measuring Innovation in New Ways using Non-Traditional Data Sources
Interdisciplinary Insights for Investigating the Intersection of Race/Color and Social Outcomes among Diverse Hispanics Communities: Implications for Statistical Measurements and Analysis
The Role of Opioid Misuse in Child Welfare Caseloads
Research Examinations within the Federal Statistical System for Improving Federal Race/Ethnicity Data
Update on Race and Ethnicity Question Proposals for the 2020 Census
Potential Improvements for 2020 Census Race and Ethnicity Conversion and Bridging
Discussant: Lauren Musu-Gillette (National Center for Education Statistics)
Towards Developing Synthetic Datasets for the Economic Census
Formal Privacy and Synthetic Data for the American Community Survey
An Integrated Approach to Providing Access to Confidential Data
Challenges and Experiences Adapting Differentially Private Mechanisms to the 2020 Census
Evidence-based Standards and Guidelines for Mobile Survey Instrument Design
Usability Testing Methodology for the 2017 Economic Census Web Instrument
Defining Bullying: A Split-Ballot Experiment Across Three Federal Agencies
Health Insurance in the American Community Survey: Multiple Types of Coverage and Respondent Write-ins
Improving the Anchoring Vignette Methodology with Visual Vignettes
Comparing Response Rates Across Surveys
Stemming the Rising Tide of Nonresponse
Cleaning Out the Gutter: Identifying and Eliminating Deadwood from a Sampling Frame Using Trees
Pursuing Consent for Record Linkage in an Establishment Survey: Results from a National Survey
Assessing Consent Bias in Linkage Studies
Challenges to Informed Consent from Administrative Data Linkage and Secondary Usage
Incorporating the Finite Population Correction into the Variance Estimation of a National Business Survey
Finding an Estimator that Minimizes Revisions in a Monthly Indicator Survey
Effect of Nearest Neighbor Imputation on Variances Calculated by Fay’s Balanced Repeated Replication
Investigation of the NCHS Data Presentation Standards for Proportions: A Simulation Study
An Alternative Way of Estimating a Proportional- Odds Model with Complex Survey Data
Session Chair: Andrew Zukerberg (National Center for Education Statistics) E-5 Federal Statistics, Multiple Data Sources
Cognitive Interviewing Methodology in 2018: Current Trends and Recent Challenges
Results of a Cognitive Interview Evaluation of the Revised Race Question, with Special Emphasis on the Newly Proposed Middle Eastern/North African Response Option
Training Cognitive Testing Interviewers in Different Settings and Languages
Survey Translation and the Place of Expert Review in the Question Evaluation Tool Kit: Development of Best Practices
Recently Resettled Refugees and their Experience with the Annual Survey of Refugees – Findings from Cognitive and In-Depth Interviews
Conducting Experiments in Establishment Surveys: Obstacles and Opportunities
Obstacles in Planning Establishment Survey Experiments - Census of Agriculture Content Test and Agricultural Resource Management Survey
Using Email to Solicit Response in an Establishment Survey
Experimenting with Alternative Question Designs for “Other, Specify” Product Information in Establishment Surveys
Researching the Psychology Workforce using Federal Statistics
Examining the Principles of Open Government
Cost Effective Mail Survey Design
Integration of Multiple Data Sources to Inform a Responsive Design
Optimal Sample Size Allocation to Mixed Modes: A Case Study Using the Residential Energy Consumption Survey
Design Issues for a Longitudinal Employer Health Insurance Survey to Facilitate Analysis of Policy Changes
Improving the Measurement of Sexual Victimization Among Children through a Redesign of the National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence
Key Issues When Collecting and Publishing General Population Estimates of Rape and Sexual Assault
Collecting Data on Rape and Sexual Assault in an Institutional Setting
Assessing Respondents’ Perceptions of Burden in the American Community Survey
Estimating Reporting Burden for Statistical Surveys
Exploring Sampling Techniques to Reduce Respondent Burden
Response Likelihood to an Establishment Survey with a Simple Questionnaire Following an Establishment Survey with a Complex Questionnaire
Bayesian Estimation Under Informative Sampling with Unattenuated Dependence
Scalable Bayes Clustering for Outlier Detection Under Informative Sampling
Terrance Savitsky (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Some Exercises in Covariate Selection for a Bayesian Crop Yield Forecasting Model
Are We Under-Estimating Food Insecurity? Christian Gregory (Economic Research Service, USDA)
Discussant: Nathan B. Cruze (USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service)
Potential Uses of Individual-level Administrative Records Data in the 2012 Survey of Business Owners
Linking USGS Water Use Data to Detailed Industries for Environmental Input-Output Modeling of the U.S. Food System
Incorporating OSHA Administrative Records in the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
Data Linkage with an Establishment Survey
Marrying Demand for Statistical Information with Disclosure Control: The Canadian Experience in Developing an Automated Dissemination Tool in an Open-Data World
Disclosure Control and Random Tabular Adjustment
A Note on Multiplicative Noise Perturbation for Privacy Protection
Linking a Retail Gasoline Price Survey with Commercial Data
Utility of Open Information Sources to Develop Estimates of Selected Crime and Justice Indicators: Measuring Arrest-Related Deaths
Evaluation of Vendor School and Teacher Lists for the 2015-16 National Teacher and Principal Survey
FDA's Approach to R Shiny Standardized, Interactive Tools
R: Innovating at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Effect of the Conservation Reserve Program on Rural Economies: Deriving a Statistical Verdict from a Null Finding
State-Level Design-Based Estimates for National Surveys
Multivariate Small Area Estimation Under Informative Sampling and Nonresponse
Semiparametric Panel Data Models Using Neural Networks
Testing Significance Tests: A Simulation with Cliff’s Delta, t-tests, and Mann-Whitney U
Sampling with Administrative Records in the National Survey of Children's Health
The Use of Administrative Records and the American Community Survey to Study the Characteristics of Undercounted Young Children in the 2010 Census
Logistic Regression with Linked Data
A Method for Assigning Weight to Variable Matching in Record Linkage
Application of Jaro-Winkler String Comparator in Enhancing Veterans Administrative Records
An Overview of the Improved 2017 Economic Census
Executing a Multi–Year Multi–Method Electronic Data Collection Re–engineering: Experiences from 2017 Economic Census Development
2017 Economic Census Contact Strategy: Using Data to Make Decisions
From Research to Implementation of Product Estimation in the 2017 Economic Census: Hard, Harder, and Hardest
Discussant: I-1Safir2018 FCSMEconomicSurveyDiscussionSafir(004).pdf
Record Linkage of Bureau of Justice (BJS) Federal Criminal Case Processing Data
Record Linkage Application in DHS USCIS Person Centric System
Damian Kostiuk (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services)
Evaluation of Data Matching in Immigration Enforcement Outcome Tool
New Advances in Applications of Geospatial Technology
Mapping Geographic and Temporal Variations in Select Mortality and Natality Outcomes with R-INLA in Small Areas
Crossing Boundaries: A Case Study on Building Accessible Tools to Combine Public-Use Data
Evaluation of Two Different Interviewing Protocols to Test a Mobile Mapping Instrument for the June Area Survey
The Time Use Data-based Measures of the Wellbeing Effect of Community Development: An Evaluative Approach.
Sidestepping the Box: Designing a Supplemental Poverty Indicator for School Neighborhoods
Analyzing Nonresponse – New Research
Correlates of Nonresponse in the 2012 and 2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Subnational Geography and the Overseas U.S. Citizens Population
Investigation into Responses for the Occupational Requirements Survey
Understanding Their Apprehension: A Look into the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey
Discussant: John S. Dixon (Bureau Labor of Statistics)
Advances in Evaluating Labor Force Statistics
Creating State Specific Occupational Replacement Rates
Employment Transitions in Washington State – An Examination of Job Flows Among Persons Employed in Growing and Declining Industries, 2014-2015
Discussant: Michael Wolf (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Progress in Measuring Income Statistics
Measuring Trends in the Distribution of Annual Earnings
What Does Consumer Heterogeneity Mean for Measuring Changes in the Cost of Living?
Discussant: George Sheldon (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
An Assessment of Crime Forecasting Models
Jointly Predicting U.S. Recessions and Restaurant Downturns: Integrated Models using the ERS Food Expenditure Series
Clarifying the Confidence Levels of PPI and CPI Forecasts in the USDA’s Food Price Outlook
Ensuring Optimal Response Rates on Agency Data Collections Over Time
Reasons for Late Response and Nonresponse in Surveys of Government Agencies
Shifting Data Quality Follow-Up Methods for a Time-Series Collection of Local and State Agencies
Collecting Electronic Health Record Data for the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and the National Hospital Care Survey
National Health Interview Survey 2019 Content Redesign – Analytic Implications
J4_Messel_2018FCSM.pdf
Balancing Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Design Objectives for the Survey of Doctorate Recipients