2001 Research Conference

Resources and Proceedings

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PLENARY
SESSION I

The Interplay between Research Innovation and Federal Statistical Practice (1.81 MB) 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 (674 KB)

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 (417 KB)

Diagrams (576 KB)

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 (222 KB)

Diagrams 1-4 (79 KB)

Diagrams 5-6 (43 KB)

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 (191 KB)

Elizabeth Liddy and Jennifer Liddy

The Reality of Metadata: Are Common Data Definitions Possible? (168 KB)

Renee Miller, Jacob Bournazian, Dwight French, Marry Ellen Golby, Perry Lindstrom, and Louis Schloss

Studies of Metadata Creation and Usage (225 KB)

Carol Hert

Operations Research/Statistics Techniques: A Key to Quantitative Data Mining (222 KB)

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 (440 KB)

Deborah Herget, Paul Biemer, Jeremy Morton, and Kelly Sand

Scanning Technology Can Improve Time-Use Studies (958 KB)

Patricia Donahue, Lynn Musser, Thomas Slomba, Judy Hoovler, Tina Kinney, and Consuelo Bangs

Strategies to Implement Electronic Collection of Multiple Worksite Report Data (193 KB)

Michael Searson

Formal Discussion: Martha Johnson

SESSION III-B

TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA

Mass Imputation of Agricultural Economic Data Missing by Design - A Simulation Study of Two Regression Based Techniques (172 KB)

Matt Fetter

Automatic Interaction Detection for Imputation - Tests with the WAID Software Package (417 KB)

Pasi Piela and Seppo Laaksonen

Raking Fire Data (268 KB)

Michael Greene, Linda Smith, Mark Levenson, Signe Hiser, and Jean Mah

Formal Discussion (440 KB)

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 (243 KB)

Louis Boucher

Security Screening and Knowledge Management in the Department of Defense (440 KB)

David Lloyd and Nancy Spruill

Usability Testing for the Energy Information Administration's Info-Centric Web Site (243 KB)

Colleen Blessing, Robert Rutchik, Howard Bradsher-Fredrick, Herbert Miller, and Renee Miller

Developing Internet Dissemination in Step with Client Expectations (269 KB)

Pamela Best

SESSION IV-B

IMPROVING COVERAGE AND RESPONSE RATES

Experiences with Incentives in a Public Attitudes Survey Using RDD (173 KB)

Ron Fecso

Are Late/Difficult Cases in Demographic Survey Interviews Worth the Effort?: A Review of Several Federal Surveys (197 KB)

Detis Duhart, Nancy Bates, Barbara Williams, Gregg Diffendal, and Pei Lu Chiu

Evaluation of a Monetary Incentive Payment Experiment in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (290 KB)

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 (468 KB)

Gordon Sande

Using Synthetic Data Sets to Satisfy Disclosure Restrictions (440 KB)

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 (425 KB)

Luisa Burck and Michail Sverchkov

Design and Estimation Innovations in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey for the Measurement of Health Care Quality and Expenditures (440 KB)

Steven Cohen

Cross-Sectional Inference Based on Longitudinal Surveys: Some Experiences with Statistics Canada Surveys (293 KB)

Harold Mantel, Milorad Kovacevic, Owen Phillips, and Georgia Roberts

Current Population Survey State-Level Variance Estimation (397 KB)

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 (249 KB)

Elizabeth Nichols and Diane Willimack

Businesses' Perceptions of Confidentiality and Their Attitudes Towards Data Sharing Among Federal Statistical Agencies (2.13 MB)

Diane Willimack

Striking the Balance between Privacy and Production in Demographic Surveys: Implementation of the Respondent Identification Policy (300 KB)

Patricia Doyle, Nancy Bates, and Gerald Gates

Formal Discussion (147 KB)

Eleanor Singer

SESSION VI-B

STATISTICAL USES OF ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS

Changes in the Use of Education Administrative Records: The Common Core of Data (195 KB)

Lee Hoffman and Beth Young

Using Administrative Data in Lieu of Survey Responses for Small Businesses (245 KB)

Anthony Myers, David Kinyon, and Carol King

The Assessment of Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), Benefit Data Using Longitudinal Administrative Records
(440 KB)

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 (440 KB)

Charles Woods

Social Presence in Web Surveys (329 KB)

Roger Tourangeau, Mick Couper, and Darby Steiger

Probability Based Internet Surveys: A Synopsis of Early Methods and Survey Research Results (399 KB)

Vicki Huggins and Joe Eyeman

Formal Discussion: Tim Gabel

SESSION VII-B

SAMPLE DESIGN AND ESTIMATION

Sample Size Considerations for Multilevel Surveys (178 KB)

Michael Cohen

Two-Sided Coverage Intervals for Small Proportions Based on Survey Data (217 KB)

Phillip Kott, Per Gösta Andersson, and Olle Nerman

Formal Discussion (440 KB)

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 (458 KB)

Vincent Iannacchione, Jennifer Staab, and David Redden

Formal Discussion (115 KB)

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 (186 KB)

Jon Krosnick and Michael Silver

Clarifying Survey Questions When Respondents Don't Know They Need Clarification (153 KB)

Frederick Conrad and Michael Schober

Usability Methods for Designing a Computer-Assisted Data Collection Instrument for the CPI (291 KB)

Jean Fox

Building Usability into Electronic Data-Collection Forms for Economic Censuses and Surveys (173 KB)

Elizabeth Murphy, Elizabeth Nichols, Amy Anderson, M. Diane Harley, and Kimberly Pressley

PLENARY SESSION IX

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 (294 KB)

Katherine Thompson and Susan Hostetter

Why Evaluate Business Data Collections? (214 KB)

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 (440 KB)

Jaki McCarthy

SESSION X-B

NEW APPROACHES IN SAMPLE DESIGN, ESTIMATION AND RECORD LINKAGE

Changes in Sampling Units in Surveys of Businesses (440 KB)

Jock Black

Designing Samples to Satisfy Many Variance Constraints (440 KB)

Donna Glassbrenner

A Partial Order Approach to Record Linkage (440 KB)

Dean Judson

Formal Discussion (82.9 KB)

Gary Shapiro

SESSION XI-A

DATA QUALITY AND NONSAMPLING ERROR, PART 2

Delivering and Measuring Data Quality in UK National Statistics (216 KB)

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 (440 KB)

Marianne Bitler and John Wolken

The Quality vs. Timeliness Tradeoff in BLS ES-202 Administrative Statistics (185 KB)

Akbar Sadeghi and Richard Clayton

Formal Discussion (159 KB)

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 (440 KB)

Paul Biemer and Henry Woltman

Can We Ignore the Migration of Income Tax Nonfilers When Benchmarking the American Community Survey's County Estimates? (440 KB)

Yves Thibaudeau

The 2002 U.S. Census of Agriculture Data Processing System (77.1 KB)

Chadd Crouse and Kara Perritt

Formal Discussion (440 KB)

Charles Alexander