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| MONITORING, MEASURING, AND ADJUSTING FOR NON-RESPONSE I | |||
| Monitoring Response to a Multi-Wave Medical Establishment Survey: How Different Are Responders From Nonresponders? | Jessica Graber (National Opinion Research Center, USA) | ||
| Factors Affecting Response to the Occupational Employment Statistics Survey | Polly Phipps and Carrie Jones (Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA) | ||
| Review of the Weighting Methodology for the Canadian Community Health Survey | Steven Thomas, Cathlin Sarafin and Michelle Simard (Statistics Canada) | ||
| An Examination of Nonresponse Error and Measurement Error by Level of Effort Using Frame Information, Survey Reports, and Paradata | Sarah Dipko and Kerry Levin (WESTAT, USA) and Mary-Helen Risler (Internal Revenue Service, USA) | ||
| CONCURRENT SESSION II-B | TIME SERIES | ||
| Comparison of Methods for Computing Yearly Growth Rates From Weekly and Monthly Data, 1978 to 2005 | Carol Blumberg (Energy Information Administration, USA) | ||
| The X-13A-S Seasonal Adjustment Program | Brian Monsell (U.S. Census Bureau) | ||
| Coherent Trends, Turning Points and Forecasts for ACS Data | Tucker McElroy (U.S. Census Bureau) | ||
| Empirical Evaluation of X-11 and Model-Based Seasonal Adjustment Methods | Richard Tiller, Daniel Chow and Stuart Scott (Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA) | ||
| CONCURRENT SESSION II-C | FRAMES AND COVERAGE | ||
| Practicability of Including Cell Phone Numbers in Random Digit Dialed Surveys: Pilot Study Results From the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System | Michael Link (Nielsen Media Research, USA), Michael Battaglia and Mary Osborn (Abt Associates, Inc., USA), Martin Frankel (Baruch College, CUNY and Abt Associates, Inc., USA) and Ali Mokdad (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA) | ||
| Measuring and Adjusting for Frame Undercoverage of the State and Local Value Put-In-Place (VIP) Survey | Thuy Trang Nguyen and Shadana Myers (U.S. Census Bureau) | ||
| Comparing the Quality of the Master Address File and the Current Demographic Household Surveys's Multiple Frames | Xijian Liu (U.S. Census Bureau) | ||
| Impact of Preliminary Versus Final Economic Census Data on the Universe Extraction Process for Current Business Surveys | Kari Clark and Carol King (U.S. Census Bureau) | ||
| CONCURRENT SESSION III-A | DISCLOSURE I | |
| Comparative Evaluation of Four Different Sensitive Tabular Data Protection Methods Using a Real Life Table Structure of Complex Hierarchies and Links | Ramesh Dandekar (Energy Information Administration, USA) | |
| 'Easy to Implement' Is Putting the Cart Before the Horse: Effective Techniques for Masking Numerical Data | Krish Muralidhar (University of Kentucky, USA) and Rathindra Sarathy (Oklahoma State University, USA) | |
| Comparing Fully and Partially Synthetic Data Sets for Statistical Disclosure Control in the German IAB Establishment Panel | Joerg Drechsler, Agnes Dundler, Stefan Bender and Susanne Raessler (Institute for Employment Research, Germany) | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION III-B | ADVANCES IN DATA EDITING | |
| Investigation of Selective Editing Procedures for the Annual Survey of Government Finances | Loretta McKenzie, Terri Craig and Carma Hogue (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| Measuring Edit Efficiency in the Economic Directorate of the U.S. Census Bureau | Broderick Oliver and Katherine Jenny Thompson (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| Improving the Efficiency of Data Editing and Imputation for a Large-Scale British Annual Business Survey | Alaa Al-Hamad and Gary Brown (Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom) and Pedro Silva (Southampton University, United Kingdom) | |
| An Empirical Investigation Into Macro Editing | Katherine Jenny Thompson and Laura Ozcoskun (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION III-C | EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF MODE AND RESPONDENT CHARACTERISTICS ON SURVEY PARTICIPATION | |
| Incorporating a Multi-Mode Design Into a Random-Digit-Dialing Survey | Michael Battaglia and Larry Osborn (Abt Associates Inc., USA), Michael Link (Nielsen Media Research, USA), Martin Frankel (Baruch College, CUNY and Abt Associates Inc., USA) and Ali Mokdad (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA) | |
| Interviewer-Reported Reasons for Conducting Interviews by Telephone in the National Health Interview Survey, 2005 | Barbara Stussman, Catherine Simile and James Dahlhamer (National Center for Health Statistics, USA) | |
| Response Profile of the 2005 ACS
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Geoffrey Jackson (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| The Influence of Selected Factors on Student Survey Participation and Mode of Completion | Tracy Hunt-White (National Center for Education Statistics, USA) | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION IV-A | EMPLOYMENT/LABOR STATISTICS | |
| Distorted Measures of Employment in Charitable Organizations: Causes, Impact and Remedies | Martin David (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) | |
| A Proposed Model for Microintegration of Economic and Social Data | Paul De Winden, Koos Arts and Martin Luppes (Statistics Netherlands) | |
| Methodologies for Estimating Mean Wages for Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Data | Mallika Kasturirangan (GEICO, USA), Shail Butani and Tamara Zimmerman (Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA) | |
| Estimating the Measurement Error in the Current Population Survey Labor Force - A Latent Class Analysis Approach With Sample Design | Bac Tran and Justin Nguyen (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION IV-B | CONFIDENTIALITY/PRIVACY | |
| Respondent Consent to Link Survey Data With Administrative Records: Results From a Split-Ballot Field Test With the 2007 National Health Interview Survey | James Dahlhamer and Christine Cox (National Center for Health Statistics, USA) | |
| Individual Privacy: How Laws Impact Researchers, Whether the Laws Apply or Not | Howard Fienberg (Council for Marketing and Opinion Research, USA) | |
| An Introduction to the National Inmate Study | Rachel Caspar and Christopher Krebs (RTI International, USA), Allen Beck and Paige Harrison (Bureau of Justice Statistics, USA) | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION IV-C | TOPICS IN ESTIMATION AND MODELING FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SURVEYS | |
| Discussion: Topics in Estimation and Modeling and International Surveys | Michael P. Cohen | |
| Estimating Unemployment for Small Areas in Navarra, Spain | Maria Ugarte, Ana Militino and Tomas Goicoa (Public University of Navarra, Spain) | |
| Two-Step Versus Simultaneous Estimation of Survey-Non-Sampling Error and True Value Components of Small Area Sample Estimators | Swamy Paravastu and Tamara Zimmerman (Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA) and Jatinder Mehta (Temple University, USA) | |
| Weighting and Estimation Research Methodology and Results From the American Community Survey Family Equalization Project | Mark Asiala (U.S. Census Bureau) |
| CONCURRENT SESSION VII-A | MAKING MUSIC OUT OF ALL THAT NOISE: USING ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS AND SURVEY DATA IN HARMONY | |
| Validating Health Insurance Coverage Survey Estimates: A Comparison Between Self-Reported Coverage and Administrative Data Records | Michael Davern, Kathleen Call, Jeanette Ziegenfuss, Gestur Davidson and Lynn Blewett (University of Minnesota, USA) and Timothy Beebe (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, USA) | |
| Differences in Estimates of Public Assistance Recipiency Between Surveys and Administrative Records [Word] | Victoria Lynch and Dean Resnick (U.S. Census Bureau), Jane Staveley and Cynthia Taeuber (Jacob France Institute, USA) | |
| Developing the Chapin Hall Child Care Subsidy Eligibility Model | Dean Resnick (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| Estimating Measurement Error in SIPP Annual Job Earnings: A Comparison of Census Survey and SSA Administrative Data | Martha Stinson (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION VII-B | ESTIMATION ISSUES | |
| Imbedding Model-Assisted Estimation Into ACS: The Impact on Users | Robert Fay III (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| A Larger Sample Size Is Not Always Better | Nagaraj Neerchal (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA), Herbert Lacayo and Barry Nussbaum (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) | |
| Alternative Tests of Independence | Balgobin Nandram and Jai Choi (National Center for Health Statistics, USA) | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION VII-C | STATISTICAL METHODS APPLIED TO RACE DESIGNATIONS AND POPULATION ESTIMATES | |
| Bridging Estimates by Race for the Current Population Survey | William Davis and Anne Hartman (National Cancer Institute, USA) and James Gibson (Information Management Services, USA) | |
| Statistical Methods for Analyzing Multiple Race Response Data | Tommi Gaines (University of California, USA) | |
| Analysis of Population Structure and Stratification in NHANES III Self- Reported Race/Ethnicities | Christopher Sanders and Lester Curtain (National Center for Health Statistics, USA) and Ajay Yesupriya (National Office of Public Health Genomics, USA) | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION VIII-A | BRIDGING THE PAST WITH THE FUTURE: INNOVATIONS AND SURVEY MEASUREMENT ISSUES | |
| Formulating the Laws of Studying Societal Change | Tom W. Smith (National Opinion Research Center, USA) | |
| Analytical Comparison of the SIPP and CPS-ASEC Key Longitudinal Estimates | Smanchai Sae-Ung, C. Dennis Sissel and Tracy Mattingly (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| UK Household Surveys for UK Government: Building on Survey Integration | Roeland Beerten (Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom) | |
| Protocol Calibration in the National Resources Inventory | Cindy Yu and Jason Legg (Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, USA) | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION VIII-B | DATA QUALITY | |
| Evaluation of the Coverage of the Linked Canadian Community Health Survey and Hospital Inpatient Records | Michelle Rotermann and Claude Nadeau (Statistics Canada) | |
| Truth or Consequences: The Inter-Temporal Consistency of Adolescent Risk Behavior Reporting | Janet Rosenbaum (Harvard University, USA) | |
| The Accuracy of Reported Insurance Status in the MEPS | Steven Hill (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, USA) | |
| Quality of Income Data in Household Surveys: Lessons From a Comparative Analysis | Gabrielle Denmead (Denmead Services, USA), John Czajka and Robert Weathers (Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., USA) and Joan Turek (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) |
| CONCURRENT SESSION IX-A | CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES IN QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN | |
| Effects of Language and Culture on Interpretation of Translated "Confidentiality" and "Mandatory" Survey Messages | Yuling Pan and Ashley Landreth (U.S. Census Bureau), Marjorie Hinsdale-Shouse and Hyunjoo Park (RTI International, USA) and Alisu Schoua-Glusberg (Research Support Services, USA) | |
| Asking for Numbers and Quantities — Visual Design Effects in Paper-And-Pencil and Web Surveys | Marek Fuchs (University of Kassel, Germany) | |
| From Start to Pilot: A Multi-Method Approach to the Comprehensive Redesign of an Economic Survey Questionnaire | Alfred Tuttle, Rebecca Morrison and Diane Willimack (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| Background and Planning for Incorporating an Event History Calendar Into the Re-Engineered SIPP | Jason Fields (U.S. Census Bureau) and Mario Callegaro (Knowledge Networks, USA) | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION IX-B | DISCLOSURE II | |
| Recent Developments in the Use of Noise for Protecting Magnitude Data Tables: Balancing to Improve Data Quality and Rounding That Preserves Protection | Paul Massell and Jeremy Funk (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| Model Based Disclosure Avoidance for Data on Veterans | Sam Hawala and Jeremy Funk (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| Microdata Risk Assessment in an NSI Context | Jane Longhurst and Paul Vickers (Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom) | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION IX-C | SAMPLE DESIGN | |
| Properties of Alternative Sample Design and Estimation Methods for the Consumer Expenditure Surveys | John Eltinge and Jeffrey Gonzalez (Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA) | |
| The American Community Survey Sample Design: An Experimental Springboard | Megha Joshipura and Steven Hefter (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| An Adaptive Sample Allocation for a Multiple Objectives Survey of Businesses | Daniela Golinelli, Greg Ridgeway and John Adams (RAND Corporation, USA) | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION X-A | WEB APPLICATIONS | |
| Developments in Electronic Survey Design for Establishment Surveys | Grace O'Neill (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| Increasing Response Rates and Data Quality of Web Surveys: Pre-Notification and Questionnaire Paging Format | Dominic Lusinchi (West Research, USA) | |
| Enhancing Web-Based Data Collection Using Excel Spreadsheets | Dan Jackson and Michele Eickman (Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA) | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION X-B | VARIANCE ESTIMATION II | |
| On X11 Seasonal Adjustment and Estimation of Its Variance | Michail Sverchkov and Stuart Scott (Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA) and Danny Pfeffermann (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and University of Southampton, United Kingdom) | |
| Diagnostic Process to Assess the Effects of Truncating Extreme BRFSS Sampling Weights | Henry Roberts, Elizabeth Hughes and Ruth Jiles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA) and Robert Woldman (North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, USA) | |
| An Examination of Alternative Variance Estimators for the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey | Laura Ozcoskun and Samson Adeshiyan (U.S. Census Bureau) | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION X-C | IMPUTATION | |
| Multiple Imputation in the Annual Survey of Manufactures | Kirk White (U.S. Census Bureau) and Jerome Reiter (Duke University, USA) | |
| Multiple Imputation of Right-Censored Wages in the German IAB Employment Register Considering Heteroscedasticity | Thomas Buettner and Susanne Raessler (Institute for Employment Research of the German Federal Employment Agency, Germany) | |
| Imputing Missing Values in the Common Core of Data for Use in Computing the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate | Jack Buckley, Marilyn McMillen Seastrom and Chris Chapman (National Center for Education Statistics, USA), Vincent Iannacchione (American Institutes for Research, USA), Sandra Eyster, Dan McGrath, and Rob Stillwell (RTI International, USA) |