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GIG Presentations Back 2001 Research Conference **FINAL PROGRAM** **Resources and Proceedings** Unless noted, all of these documents are in Portable Document Format [PDF]. To view them you will need the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader which is available for free from the Adobe Web site. PLENARY**The Interplay between Research Innovation and Federal Statistical Practice**  
  SESSION I - Stephen Fienberg   SESSION II-AMODEL-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 Mass Imputation of Agricultural Economic Data Missing by Design – A Simulation Study of Two Regression Based Techniques Matt Fetter Automatic Interaction Detection for Imputation – Tests with the WAID Software Package Pasi Piela and Seppo Laaksonen Raking Fire Data 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 Are Late/Difficult Cases in Demographic Survey Interviews Worth the Effort?: A Review of Several Federal Surveys 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 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 Cross-Sectional Inference Based on Longitudinal Surveys: Some Experiences with Statistics Canada Surveys 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 Businesses’ Perceptions of Confidentiality and Their Attitudes Towards Data Sharing Among Federal Statistical Agencies Diane Willimack Striking the Balance between Privacy and Production in Demographic Surveys: Implementation of the Respondent Identification Policy Patricia Doyle, Nancy Bates, and Gerald Gates Formal Discussion 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 Formal Discussion 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 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 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 Formal Discussion 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 Formal Discussion 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
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