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4 Collection of Household Data
4 Collection of Household Data
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Households had about 78 percent telephone coverage in 1970, and this number seemed to be increasing, making the transition increasingly more feasible. Household survey methods, including sampling approaches, could rea sonably be applied to telephone, he said.
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Changes related to the telephone and the continuing limitations of Internet access suggest that, in the near future, there will be more reliance on mixedmode survey designs to collect data. Dillman devised a typology of the ways data collection modes are most commonly mixed (Dillman et al., 2009)
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For example, improving response rates by offering alternative modes of responding may introduce measurement differences, or reducing costs may conflict with obtaining quicker responses. There are also several significant barriers to wider adoption of mixed mode designs, he said.
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. As an example of different design requirements for visual com munication, he described a challenge encountered by the National Science Foundation while designing one of its web surveys.
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When the symbolic language MM, YYYY was added to the respective boxes, this yielded 87 percent correct responses. Finally, when boxes and symbolic language were arranged in natural reading order, 96 percent of respondents provided responses in the desired format.
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A line of research Dillman is particularly interested in involves combining two visual modes of data collection and avoiding the aural mode. Sending an email request as a first contact is typically not appropriate in cross-sectional household surveys, unless there is an existing relationship with the sample members or if they are a part of a longitudinal study.
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Evidence is mounting that the aural and visual modes sometimes produce different responses. INTEGRATING ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS INTO THE FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM 2.0 The focus of the presentation by Rochelle Martinez (Office of Management and Budget)
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Most notably, administrative records have been used in economic statistical programs since the 1940s. There are also good examples of administrative data use with vital statistics, population estimates, and other programs across several federal statistical agencies.
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The informed consent product is an in-depth look at legal requirements across federal agencies, current practices for informed consent at statistical agencies, and current practices at administrative agencies. It also synthesizes research on informed consent wording in the context of data sharing and record linkage.
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Another significant data quality issue for statistical agencies is the bias that comes with the refusal or the inability to successfully link records. In addition to the quality of the administrative data as an input, the quality of the data as they come out of a linkage must be considered as well.
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The second pilot project is related to the first one and is also housed mostly at the Census Bureau. The idea is that the Census Bureau has the capacity and stabilizing infrastructure that enables it to provide record linkage services to other federal statistical agencies.
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Furthermore, it is very important that not only federal statistical agencies, but also the professional statistical community, and particularly those working in the states, contribute to this conversation. THE ROLE OF ADMINSTRATIVE RECORDS IN HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS: THE CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE Julie Trépanier (Statistics Canada)
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The first authority is the omnibus record linkage authority for the economic statistics program, and it allows linkage of data for business surveys. The second authority is the omnibus record linkage authority for improving population and household survey programs, which allows linking data for three reasons: (1)
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Even before the passage of the omnibus record linkage authority, administrative data have been used to complement existing sampling frames, such as the Address Register (AR) mentioned earlier, with additional information on addresses and telephone numbers.
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Other efforts to centralize and improve tracing operations using adminis trative data currently pursued by Statistics Canada include samples sent to the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA) , which returns them with addresses from driver's license information.
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Finally, they can help both reduce the volume of data collected in surveys and improve estimation. Now that Statistics Canada has the omnibus record linkage authority in place, exploring all of these options has become a much easier process.
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And although going to the policy committee is no longer necessary, the Access Division at Statistics Canada must be notified of the administrative data use so that it can make an inventory of all the linkages. Styles followed up her question with another one about registers.
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In the studies he has conducted of both mail and email contacts to entice survey participation, he received a higher response when a questionnaire was sent via postal mail than when an email response was requested. Young people also tend to go to paper first.
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53 COLLECTION OF HOUSEHOLD DATA recommend that the CATI and CAPI follow-up steps be abandoned in this survey? Dillman clarified that he was not suggesting that any of the modes should be abandoned.
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