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- Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016244Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
Over the past few years, Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) has experienced an increase in the volume of business survey data supplied by e-mail. However, up until now, SNZ has not had the business processes available to support electronic collection in a way that meets both the needs of SNZ and data suppliers. To this end, SNZ has invested a lot of effort over the last year in investigating how best to approach the problems and opportunities presented by electronic data collection. This paper outlines SNZ's plans to move the e-mail supplied data to a secure lodgement facility and the future development of an internet-based data collection system. It also presents a case study of the Monthly Retail Trade Survey data currently supplied by e-mail. This case study illustrates some of the benefits of electronic data, but also examines some of the costs to the organization and the data quality problems encountered. It also highlights the need to consider the data collection methodology within the wider context of the total survey cycle.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016251Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.This paper provides an initial look at the performance indicators of statistical agencies in the United States in order to offer a framework for benchmarking performance. As shown by this paper, several agencies have taken extremely different approaches in measuring their performance, both in terms of what they are measuring and how they are measuring it. Sharing this information is the first step toward making these measures more robust and comparable across all US agencies and international statistics offices.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016266Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
The key measure of Census quality is the level of response achieved. In recent censuses around the world, this level has been in the high nineties percentage range. This was also true of the 1991 Census in Britain (98%). However, what was particularly noticeable about this Census was the differential response rate and the difficulty in effectively measuring this rate. The United Kingdom set up the One Number Census program in order to research and develop a more effective methodology to measure and account for under-enumeration in the 2001 Census. The key element in this process is the Census Coverage Survey - a significantly larger and redesigned post-enumeration survey.
This paper describes the planning and design of the Census Coverage Survey with particular emphasis on the implementation of the proposed field methodology. It also provides a high-level overview of the success of this survey.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016271Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
This paper proposes a method for short-term estimation of labour input indicators using administrative data from the Social Security Database (SSD). The rationale for developing this methodology originated from the need for national statistical offices to meet the standard quality criteria in the Regulation no. 1165/98 of the European Community concerning short-term business statistics. Information requested in the Regulation involves such a detailed disaggregation that it would be impossible to meet all the requirements through direct data collection. Administrative data, because of their timeliness and detailed coverage, represent a valuable source for obtaining estimates of business population aggregates that meet such quality requirements.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016284Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
Since 1965, the National Center for Health Statistics has conducted the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), a national probability sample survey of discharges from non-federal, short-stay and general hospitals. A major aspect of the NHDS redesign in 1988 was to use electronic data from abstracting service organizations and state data systems. This paper presents an overview of the development of the NHDS and the 1988 redesign. Survey methodologies are reviewed in light of the data collection and processing issues arising from the combination of "manually" abstracted data and "automated" data. Methods for assessing the overall quality and accuracy of the NHDS data are discussed for both data collection modes. These methods include procedures to ensure that incoming data meet established standards and that abstracted data are processed and coded according to strict quality control procedures. These procedures are presented in the context of issues and findings from the broader literature about the quality of hospital administrative data sets.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - 6. 2002 Economic Census electronic style guide ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-522-X20010016288Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
The upcoming 2002 U.S. Economic Census will give businesses the option of submitting their data on paper or by electronic media. If reporting electronically, they may report via Windows-based Computerized Self-Administered Questionnaires (CSAQs). The U.S. Census Bureau will offer electronic reporting for over 650 different forms to all respondents. The U.S. Census Bureau has assembled a cross-divisional team to develop an electronic forms style guide, outlining the design standards to use in electronic form creation and ensuring that the quality of the form designs will be consistent throughout.
The purpose of a style guide is to foster consistency among the various analysts who may be working on different pieces of a software development project (in this case, a CSAQ). The team determined that the style guide should include standards for layout and screen design, navigation, graphics, edit capabilities, additional help, feedback, audit trails, and accessibility for disabled users.
Members of the team signed up to develop various sections of the style guide. The team met weekly to discuss and review the sections. Members of the team also conducted usability tests on edits, and subject-matter employees provided recommendations to upper management. Team members conducted usability testing on prototype forms with actual respondents. The team called in subject-matter experts as necessary to assist in making decisions about particular forms where the constraints of the electronic medium required changes to the paper form.
The style guide will become the standard for all CSAQs for the 2002 Economic Census, which will ensure consistency across the survey programs.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016289Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
Increasing demand for electronic reporting in establishment surveys has placed additional emphasis on incorporating usability into electronic forms. We are just beginning to understand the implications surrounding electronic forms design. Cognitive interviewing and usability testing are analogous in that both types of testing have similar goals: to build an end instrument (paper or electronic) that reduces both respondent burden and measurement error. Cognitive testing has greatly influenced paper forms design and can also be applied towards the development of electronic forms. Usability testing expands on existing cognitive testing methodology to include examination of the interaction between the respondent and the electronic form.
The upcoming U.S. 2002 Economic Census will offer businesses the ability to report information using electronic forms. The U.S. Census Bureau is creating an electronic forms style guide outlining the design standards to be used in electronic form creation. The style guide's design standards are based on usability principles, usability and cognitive test results, and Graphical User Interface standards. This paper highlights the major electronic forms design issues raised during the preparation of the style guide and describes how usability testing and cognitive interviewing resolved these issues.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016296Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
The Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) is one of Statistics Canada's most important surveys. It is a monthly survey that collects data concerning the person's labour force status, the nature of the person's work or reason for not working, and the person's demographics. The survey sample consists of approximately 52,000 households. Coverage error is a measure of data quality that is important to any survey. One of the key measures of coverage error in the LFS is the percentage difference between the Census of Population estimates and the LFS population counts; this error is called slippage. A negative value indicates that the LFS has a problem of overcoverage, while a positive value indicates the LFS has an undercoverage problem. In general, slippage is positive, thus meaning that the LFS consistently misses people who should be enumerated.
The purpose of this study was to determine why slippage is increasing and what can be done to remedy it. The study was conducted in two stages. The first stage was a historical review of the projects that have studied and tried to control slippage in the LFS, as well as the operational changes that have been implemented over time. The second stage was an analysis of factors such as vacancy rates, non-response, demographics, urban and rural status and the impact of these factors on the slippage rate.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016309Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
This paper proposes a method for estimating simple and correlated measurement variance components when a re-interview is available for a subsample of respondents. However, the two measurements cannot be considered as being collected under the same conditions and, therefore, are subject to different measurement error variance. This consideration seems more realistic when, in actuality, it is impossible to ensure that the same measurement conditions are implemented in the two interviews, as in the case when operational and budget constraints suggest adopting a different survey mode for the second interview.
Release date: 2002-09-12
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- Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016244Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
Over the past few years, Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) has experienced an increase in the volume of business survey data supplied by e-mail. However, up until now, SNZ has not had the business processes available to support electronic collection in a way that meets both the needs of SNZ and data suppliers. To this end, SNZ has invested a lot of effort over the last year in investigating how best to approach the problems and opportunities presented by electronic data collection. This paper outlines SNZ's plans to move the e-mail supplied data to a secure lodgement facility and the future development of an internet-based data collection system. It also presents a case study of the Monthly Retail Trade Survey data currently supplied by e-mail. This case study illustrates some of the benefits of electronic data, but also examines some of the costs to the organization and the data quality problems encountered. It also highlights the need to consider the data collection methodology within the wider context of the total survey cycle.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016251Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.This paper provides an initial look at the performance indicators of statistical agencies in the United States in order to offer a framework for benchmarking performance. As shown by this paper, several agencies have taken extremely different approaches in measuring their performance, both in terms of what they are measuring and how they are measuring it. Sharing this information is the first step toward making these measures more robust and comparable across all US agencies and international statistics offices.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016266Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
The key measure of Census quality is the level of response achieved. In recent censuses around the world, this level has been in the high nineties percentage range. This was also true of the 1991 Census in Britain (98%). However, what was particularly noticeable about this Census was the differential response rate and the difficulty in effectively measuring this rate. The United Kingdom set up the One Number Census program in order to research and develop a more effective methodology to measure and account for under-enumeration in the 2001 Census. The key element in this process is the Census Coverage Survey - a significantly larger and redesigned post-enumeration survey.
This paper describes the planning and design of the Census Coverage Survey with particular emphasis on the implementation of the proposed field methodology. It also provides a high-level overview of the success of this survey.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016271Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
This paper proposes a method for short-term estimation of labour input indicators using administrative data from the Social Security Database (SSD). The rationale for developing this methodology originated from the need for national statistical offices to meet the standard quality criteria in the Regulation no. 1165/98 of the European Community concerning short-term business statistics. Information requested in the Regulation involves such a detailed disaggregation that it would be impossible to meet all the requirements through direct data collection. Administrative data, because of their timeliness and detailed coverage, represent a valuable source for obtaining estimates of business population aggregates that meet such quality requirements.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016284Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
Since 1965, the National Center for Health Statistics has conducted the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), a national probability sample survey of discharges from non-federal, short-stay and general hospitals. A major aspect of the NHDS redesign in 1988 was to use electronic data from abstracting service organizations and state data systems. This paper presents an overview of the development of the NHDS and the 1988 redesign. Survey methodologies are reviewed in light of the data collection and processing issues arising from the combination of "manually" abstracted data and "automated" data. Methods for assessing the overall quality and accuracy of the NHDS data are discussed for both data collection modes. These methods include procedures to ensure that incoming data meet established standards and that abstracted data are processed and coded according to strict quality control procedures. These procedures are presented in the context of issues and findings from the broader literature about the quality of hospital administrative data sets.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - 6. 2002 Economic Census electronic style guide ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-522-X20010016288Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
The upcoming 2002 U.S. Economic Census will give businesses the option of submitting their data on paper or by electronic media. If reporting electronically, they may report via Windows-based Computerized Self-Administered Questionnaires (CSAQs). The U.S. Census Bureau will offer electronic reporting for over 650 different forms to all respondents. The U.S. Census Bureau has assembled a cross-divisional team to develop an electronic forms style guide, outlining the design standards to use in electronic form creation and ensuring that the quality of the form designs will be consistent throughout.
The purpose of a style guide is to foster consistency among the various analysts who may be working on different pieces of a software development project (in this case, a CSAQ). The team determined that the style guide should include standards for layout and screen design, navigation, graphics, edit capabilities, additional help, feedback, audit trails, and accessibility for disabled users.
Members of the team signed up to develop various sections of the style guide. The team met weekly to discuss and review the sections. Members of the team also conducted usability tests on edits, and subject-matter employees provided recommendations to upper management. Team members conducted usability testing on prototype forms with actual respondents. The team called in subject-matter experts as necessary to assist in making decisions about particular forms where the constraints of the electronic medium required changes to the paper form.
The style guide will become the standard for all CSAQs for the 2002 Economic Census, which will ensure consistency across the survey programs.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016289Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
Increasing demand for electronic reporting in establishment surveys has placed additional emphasis on incorporating usability into electronic forms. We are just beginning to understand the implications surrounding electronic forms design. Cognitive interviewing and usability testing are analogous in that both types of testing have similar goals: to build an end instrument (paper or electronic) that reduces both respondent burden and measurement error. Cognitive testing has greatly influenced paper forms design and can also be applied towards the development of electronic forms. Usability testing expands on existing cognitive testing methodology to include examination of the interaction between the respondent and the electronic form.
The upcoming U.S. 2002 Economic Census will offer businesses the ability to report information using electronic forms. The U.S. Census Bureau is creating an electronic forms style guide outlining the design standards to be used in electronic form creation. The style guide's design standards are based on usability principles, usability and cognitive test results, and Graphical User Interface standards. This paper highlights the major electronic forms design issues raised during the preparation of the style guide and describes how usability testing and cognitive interviewing resolved these issues.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016296Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
The Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) is one of Statistics Canada's most important surveys. It is a monthly survey that collects data concerning the person's labour force status, the nature of the person's work or reason for not working, and the person's demographics. The survey sample consists of approximately 52,000 households. Coverage error is a measure of data quality that is important to any survey. One of the key measures of coverage error in the LFS is the percentage difference between the Census of Population estimates and the LFS population counts; this error is called slippage. A negative value indicates that the LFS has a problem of overcoverage, while a positive value indicates the LFS has an undercoverage problem. In general, slippage is positive, thus meaning that the LFS consistently misses people who should be enumerated.
The purpose of this study was to determine why slippage is increasing and what can be done to remedy it. The study was conducted in two stages. The first stage was a historical review of the projects that have studied and tried to control slippage in the LFS, as well as the operational changes that have been implemented over time. The second stage was an analysis of factors such as vacancy rates, non-response, demographics, urban and rural status and the impact of these factors on the slippage rate.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016309Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
This paper proposes a method for estimating simple and correlated measurement variance components when a re-interview is available for a subsample of respondents. However, the two measurements cannot be considered as being collected under the same conditions and, therefore, are subject to different measurement error variance. This consideration seems more realistic when, in actuality, it is impossible to ensure that the same measurement conditions are implemented in the two interviews, as in the case when operational and budget constraints suggest adopting a different survey mode for the second interview.
Release date: 2002-09-12
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