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  • 1. The role of the interviewer in survey participation Archived
    Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200214481
    Description:

    Using data from a survey of U.S. Census Bureau interviewers, this paper examines whether experienced interviewers achieve higher response rates than inexperienced interviewers, controlling for differences in survey design and attributes of the populations assigned to them. After demonstrating that the relationship is positive and curvilinear, it attempts to explain the mechanisms by which experienced interviewers achieve these rates and elaborate the nature of the relationship. It examines what behaviors and attitudes underlie the higher success, with the hope that they might be instilled in trainees.

    Release date: 1992-12-15
  • 2. A variation of the housing unit method for estimating the population of small, rural areas: A case study of the local expert procedure Archived
    Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200114493
    Description:

    This paper examines the suitability of a survey-based procedure for estimating populations in small, rural areas. The procedure is a variation of the Housing Unit Method. It employs the use of local experts enlisted to provide information about the demographic characteristics of households randomly selected from residential unit sample frames developed from utility records. The procedure is nonintrusive and less costly than traditional survey data collection efforts. Because the procedure is based on random sampling, confidence intervals can be constructed around the population estimated by the technique. The results of a case study are provided in which the total population is estimated for three unincorporated communities in rural, southern Nevada.

    Release date: 1992-06-15
  • 3. Restricted maximum likelihood (REML) estimation in empirical Bayes smoothing of census undercount Archived
    Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200114498
    Description:

    One way to assess the undercount at subnational levels (e.g. the state level) is to obtain sample data from a post-enumeration survey, and then smooth those data based on a linear model of explanatory variables. The relative importance of sampling-error variances to corresponding model-error variances determines the amount of smoothing. Maximum likelihood estimation can lead to oversmoothing, so making the assessment of undercount over-reliant on the linear model. Restricted maximum likelihood (REML) estimators do not suffer from this drawback. Empirical Bayes prediction of undercount based on REML will be presented in this article, and will be compared to maximum likelihood and a method of moments by both simulation and example. Large-sample distributional properties of the REML estimators allow accurate mean squared prediction errors of the REML-based smoothers to be computed.

    Release date: 1992-06-15
  • 4. The changing profile of dual-earner families Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X1992002148
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article profiles the evolution of dual-earner families from 1967 to 1989. Changes in some of the relationships between the labour force participation of wives and the labour market experience of husbands are examined, as are family characteristics such as the presence of children.

    Release date: 1992-06-03
  • 5. Studying on the job Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X1992002160
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Using the results of the 1990 Adult Education and Training Survey, worker training is described in terms of the characteristics of paid workers who received part-time training from their employers, the industries they worked in, the jobs they held, and the subjects they studied.

    Release date: 1992-06-03
  • 6. Are single industry towns diversifying? A look at fishing, mining and wood-based communities Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X1992001150
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    For many towns, a single industry is the main employer. Labour force and industry changes that have been place in three types of resource-based communities since 1971 are examined

    Release date: 1992-03-03
  • 7. Hard at work Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X1992001153
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The number of Canadians working 50 or more hours per week has risen dramatically since 1975. Who are these people, where do they work and what do they do? Is money the main reason why they work so many hours?

    Release date: 1992-03-03
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  • 1. The role of the interviewer in survey participation Archived
    Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200214481
    Description:

    Using data from a survey of U.S. Census Bureau interviewers, this paper examines whether experienced interviewers achieve higher response rates than inexperienced interviewers, controlling for differences in survey design and attributes of the populations assigned to them. After demonstrating that the relationship is positive and curvilinear, it attempts to explain the mechanisms by which experienced interviewers achieve these rates and elaborate the nature of the relationship. It examines what behaviors and attitudes underlie the higher success, with the hope that they might be instilled in trainees.

    Release date: 1992-12-15
  • 2. A variation of the housing unit method for estimating the population of small, rural areas: A case study of the local expert procedure Archived
    Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200114493
    Description:

    This paper examines the suitability of a survey-based procedure for estimating populations in small, rural areas. The procedure is a variation of the Housing Unit Method. It employs the use of local experts enlisted to provide information about the demographic characteristics of households randomly selected from residential unit sample frames developed from utility records. The procedure is nonintrusive and less costly than traditional survey data collection efforts. Because the procedure is based on random sampling, confidence intervals can be constructed around the population estimated by the technique. The results of a case study are provided in which the total population is estimated for three unincorporated communities in rural, southern Nevada.

    Release date: 1992-06-15
  • 3. Restricted maximum likelihood (REML) estimation in empirical Bayes smoothing of census undercount Archived
    Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200114498
    Description:

    One way to assess the undercount at subnational levels (e.g. the state level) is to obtain sample data from a post-enumeration survey, and then smooth those data based on a linear model of explanatory variables. The relative importance of sampling-error variances to corresponding model-error variances determines the amount of smoothing. Maximum likelihood estimation can lead to oversmoothing, so making the assessment of undercount over-reliant on the linear model. Restricted maximum likelihood (REML) estimators do not suffer from this drawback. Empirical Bayes prediction of undercount based on REML will be presented in this article, and will be compared to maximum likelihood and a method of moments by both simulation and example. Large-sample distributional properties of the REML estimators allow accurate mean squared prediction errors of the REML-based smoothers to be computed.

    Release date: 1992-06-15
  • 4. The changing profile of dual-earner families Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X1992002148
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article profiles the evolution of dual-earner families from 1967 to 1989. Changes in some of the relationships between the labour force participation of wives and the labour market experience of husbands are examined, as are family characteristics such as the presence of children.

    Release date: 1992-06-03
  • 5. Studying on the job Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X1992002160
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Using the results of the 1990 Adult Education and Training Survey, worker training is described in terms of the characteristics of paid workers who received part-time training from their employers, the industries they worked in, the jobs they held, and the subjects they studied.

    Release date: 1992-06-03
  • 6. Are single industry towns diversifying? A look at fishing, mining and wood-based communities Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X1992001150
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    For many towns, a single industry is the main employer. Labour force and industry changes that have been place in three types of resource-based communities since 1971 are examined

    Release date: 1992-03-03
  • 7. Hard at work Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X1992001153
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The number of Canadians working 50 or more hours per week has risen dramatically since 1975. Who are these people, where do they work and what do they do? Is money the main reason why they work so many hours?

    Release date: 1992-03-03
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