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International Total Survey Error Workshops

 

 

ITSEW 2008

 

 

 

ITSEW 2008 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE PRESENTS

 

MultiPle Sources OF ERROR and Their Interactions

 

 

 

 

Program

 

 

June 2 - 4, 2008

Radisson Hotel RTP

Research Triangle Park, NC

 

Principal Sponsors
National Institute of Statistical Sciences
RTI International

 

Co-Sponsor

Survey Methods Research Section, American Statistical Association

 


Monday, June 2, 2008

Time

Session Title

Presenter

8:00 am-8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

8:30 am-8:45 am

Welcome and Introductions

 

8:45 am-10:20 am

Session 1

Chair: Paul Biemer

8:50 am-9:15 am

Reluctant Respondents & Measurement Error: a Multritrait-Multimethod Model

Joop Hox

Edith de Leeuw

Hsuan-Tzu Chang

9:15 am-9:30 am

Floor Discussion

 

9:30 am-9:45 am

Evaluating consequences of ignoring measurement error in multi-stage analyses of large-scale educational and social SURVEYS

Aaron R. Douglas

9:45 am-10:00 am

How to Choose the Number of call Attempts in a Telephone Survey in the Presence of Nonresponse and Measurement Errors

Annica Isaksson

Peter Lundquist

Dan Thorburn

10:00 am-10:20 am

Floor Discussion

 

10:20 am-10:35 am

Break

 

10:35 am-12:10 pm

Session 2

Chair: Clyde Tucker

10:40 am-11:05 am

The Distribution of Total Error in a Health Survey: A Progress Update

Noelle M. Molinari

James Singleton

Kirk Wolter

Noelle M. Molinari

Philip Smith

Martin Barron

Benjamin Skalland

Kennon Copeland

Sadeq Chodhury

Meena Khare

Robert Montgomery

11:05 am-11:20 am

Floor Discussion

 

11:20 am-11:35 am

Assessment of Misclassification Error in Stratification Due to Incomplete Frame Information

Donsig Jang

Steve Cohen

Xiaojing Lin

Amang Sukaisih

11:35 am-11:50 am

The Relationship Between Response Propensity and Survey Data Quality in Two National Household Surveys

Scott S. Fricker

11:50 am-12:10 pm

Floor Discussion

 

12:10 pm-13:30 pm

Lunch

 

13:30 am-15:05 pm

Session 3

Chair: Jerry Reiter

13:35 pm-14:00 pm

The Dual Tasks of Interviewers

Ting Yan

Ken Ransinski

Colm O'Muircheataigh

Jenny Kelly

Pat Cagney

Rebecca Jessoe

14:00 pm-14:15 pm

Floor Discussion

 

14:15 pm-14:30 pm

Building Wave Response Rates in a Longitudinal Survey:  Essential for Nonsampling Error Reduction or Last In-First out?

Steven B. Cohen

14:30 pm-14:45 pm

A Tale of Two Methods:  Comparing a mail data collection and RDD data collection for the Minnesota Adult Tobacco Survey III (MATS III)

Wendy Hicks

David Cantor

Ann St. Claire

Rebecca Fee

Peter Rode

14:45 pm-15:05 pm

Floor Discussion

 

15:05 pm-15:20 pm

Break

 

15:20 pm-16:20 pm

FANTASY HOUR - OPEN MIKE FORMAT

Step up to the mike and express your thoughts and ideas. Out-of-the-box thoughts are welcome!

Chair: Alan Karr

16:20 pm-16:55 pm

FIVE MINUTE POSTER BRIEFS - Sell your poster!

Chair: Brian Meekins

16:25 pm-16:30 pm

Using Audit Data to Estimate Taxpayer Reporting Error in the Statistics of Income Division’s Individual Tax Return sample

Kimberly Henry

16:30 pm-16:35 pm

Using Audio Recording to Detect Data Collection Error

M. Rita Thissen

16:35 pm-16:40 pm

Covariates of Unit Nonresponse Error Components Based on Proxy Household Information

H. Oztas Ayhan

16:40 pm-16:45 pm

A response model for business surveys and its implications for business survey design

Mojca Bavdaz

16:45 pm-16:50 pm

Measurement of Perceived Health Status:  Impact of Proxy Responses on Survey Error in a National Health Survey

Steven Machlin

Karen Beauregard

16:50 pm-16:55 pm

BRR Estimation of Variance of Survey Estimates Weight-adjusted for Nonresponse

Eric Slud

Yves Thibaudeau

16:55 pm-17:10 pm

Break

 

17:10 pm-18:30 pm

MIXER AND POSTER SESSIONS

 

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Time

Session Title

Presenter

8:45 am-10:20 am

Session 5

Chair: Alan Karr

8:50 am-9:15 am

Decomposing the maximal impact of undercoverage, unit nonresponse and item nonresponse on bias and mean square error

Barry Schouten

9:15 am-9:30 am

Floor Discussion

 

9:30 am-9:45 am

Measurement Error, Unit Nonresponse, and Relationship between Them in Underreporting of Abortions

Andy Peytchev

Emilia Peycheva

Robert M. Groves

9:45 am-10:00 am

When do nonresponse follow-ups improve or reduce data quality? A meta-analysis of the existing literature

Kristen Olson

10:00 am-10:20 am

Floor Discussion

 

10:20 am-10:35 am

Break

 

10:35 am-12:10 pm

Session 6

Chair: Roeland Beerten

10:40 am-11:05 am

Assessing Nonresponse Bias and Measurement Error in Estimates of Employment

John Dixon

Clyde Tucker
Polly Phipps

11:05 am-11:20 am

Discussion

 

11:20 am-11:35 am

Sources of errors in measuring community health center physicians

Catharine W. Burt

Esther Hing

11:35 am-11:50 am

Effects of Undercoverage and Unit Nonresponse on Intimate Partner Violence Estimates: Different Errors of Nonobservation in RDD Telephone Surveys

Andy Peytchev

Lisa Carley-Baxter

Michele Lynberg Black

11:50 am-12:10 pm

Floor Discussion

 

12:10 pm-13:30 pm

Lunch

 

13:30 pm-15:05 pm

Session 7

Chair: Lilli Japec

13:35 pm-14:00 pm

Measurement Error and Subsequent Panel Nonresponse in the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey

Clyde Tucker
Brian Meekins
Paul Biemer

14:00 pm-14:15 pm

Floor Discussion

 

14:15 pm-14:30 pm

The Nonresponse-Classification Error Interaction:
How Important is it in Studies of Nonresponse Bias?

Paul Biemer

14:30 pm-14:45 pm

Error Structure in Estimates of Census Coverage Error Components

Mary Mulry

14:45 pm-15:05 pm

Floor Discussion

 

15:05 pm-15:20 pm

Break

 

15:20 pm-16:45 pm

Session 8

Chair: Mary Mulry

15:20 pm-15:45 pm

Experiments Exploring the Relationship Between
Nonresponse Error and Measurement Error

Roger Tourangeau

Robert M. Groves

Stanley Presser

Christopher Toppe

Courtney Kennedy

Ting Yan

15:45 pm-16:00 pm

Floor Discussion

 

16:00 pm-16:15 pm

The potential of multiple imputation for handling measurement error, nonresponse, and confidentiality concerns

Jerry Reiter

16:15 pm-16:30 pm

practical survey design strategies for minimizing MSE

Anders Holmberg
Lilli Japec
Lars Lyberg
Bo Sundgren

 

16:30 pm-16:45 pm

Floor Discussion

 

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Time

Session Title

Chair

8:45 am-10:20 am

Session 9

Paul Biemer

 

Summary of ITSEW 2008 and Future Work

Join us for a discussion of the key results from the meeting as we plan future research in this area.

 

10:20 am-10:35 am

Break

 

10:35 am-12:10 pm

Session 10

Lilli Japec

 

Planning ITSEW 2009

The discussion in Session 9 continues as we become more specific about the next ITSEW to be held in Sweden in 2009.

 



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