Survey Methodology, December 2014
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Released: 2014-12-19
The paper "From multiple modes for surveys to multiple data sources for estimates," written by Constance F. Citro, appears in the December 2014 issue of Survey Methodology, available today.
In this paper, the author suggests ways to inculcate a culture of official statistics that focuses on timely, accurate and cost-effective statistics as the end result, and treats surveys, along with other data sources, as means to that end. This article is the 14th to receive the Waksberg Award, in honour of Joseph Waksberg's contributions to the theory and practice of survey methodology.
The December 2014 issue of Survey Methodology also contains eight other papers and two short notes.
Papers
Frequentist and Bayesian approaches for comparing interviewer variance components in two groups of survey interviewers (Brady T. West and Michael R. Elliott)
Bagging non-differentiable estimators in complex surveys (Jianqiang C. Wang, Jean D. Opsomer and Haonan Wang)
Fractional hot deck imputation for robust inference under item nonresponse in survey sampling (Jae Kwang Kim and Shu Yang)
Potential gains from using unit level cost information in a model-assisted framework (David G. Steel and Robert Graham Clark)
Optimal solutions in controlled selection problems with two-way stratification (Sun Woong Kim, Steven G. Heeringa and Peter W. Solenberger)
On aligned composite estimates from overlapping samples for growth rates and totals (Paul Knottnerus)
The estimation of gross flows in complex surveys with random nonresponse (Andrés Gutiérrez, Leonardo Trujillo and Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva)
Chi-squared tests in dual frame surveys (Yan Lu)
Short notes
Estimation methods on multiple sampling frames in two-stage sample designs (Guillaume Chauvet and Guylène Tandeau de Marsac)
Combining information from multiple complex surveys (Qi Dong, Michael R. Elliott and Trivellore E. Raghunathan)
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The December 2014 online issue of Survey Methodology, Vol. 40, no. 2 (Catalogue number12-001-X), is now available from the Browse by key resource module of our website under Publications.
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