Session Notes and Presentations from ITSEW 2009
THE TOTAL SURVEY ERROR CONCEPT: USES AND ABUSES
SESSION 1 - Chair, Paul Biemer
Total Survey Error: Past, Present and Future
Bob Groves and Lars Lyberg
Identifying Multiple Sources of Error: The 2007 Classification Error Survey for the U.S. Census of Agriculture
Jaki McCarthy and Denise Abreu
SESSION 2 - Chair, Lilli Japec
Effects of Disruptions on Total Survey Error
Alan Karr
Using the TSE Framework in Legal Proceedings
Paul Lavrakas
Modeling Multiple Sources of Survey Error in Physical Activity Data
Nick Beyler, Sarah Nusser, Alicia Carriquiry, Greg Welk
Tracking Error in a Process Control Sample Survey System: A Study in Interaction between Administrative and Behavioural Deviations from Design
David Lawrence and Stephen Horn
SESSION 3 - Chair, Frauke Kreuter
A Structured Approach to Inference from Internet Panels
Yehuda Dayan
Nonresponse and Measurement Error in Employment Research
Frauke Kreuter, Gerrit Müller, Mark Trappmann
Can Speech Disfluency and Voice Pitch Predict Item Nonresponse and Accuracy to Income Questions?
Matt Jans
Choosing the Number of Call Attempts to Minimize the Nonresponse Bias under a Response Homogeneity Groups (RHG) Approach
Annica Isaksson and Peter Lundquist
SESSION 4 - Chair, Gösta Forsman
Travel Award Students present their work
Rebecca Rosen
Effects of mode and mood on self-report by college students
Mari Toomse
Non-Response Bias in Income Data
Youfeng Nie
Nejc Berzelac
SESSION 5 - Chair, Sarah Nusser
Coverage Rates and Coverage Error When Interviewers Create Frames
Stephanie Eckman
The Different Roles of Interviewers: How Does Interviewer Personality Affect Respondents' Survey Participation and Response Behavior?
Michael Weinhardt and Frauke Kreuter
SESSION 6 - Chair, Otto Hoffmeister
Quality Monitoring in Cross-National Survey Research: A Framework
Beth-Ellen Pennell, Sue Ellen Hansen, Kirsten Alcser, Janet Harkness, Brad Edwards, Pat Montalvan
Minimizing Total Survey Error in an International Assessment of Adult Competencies
Leyla Mohadjer
Measurement Equivalence vs. Representativeness: The Influence of Response Enhancing Measures on the Comparability of Answers
Jost Kappelhof
SESSION 7 - Chair, Ghilagaber Gebrenegus
Travel Award Students present their work
Carolina Casas-Cordero
Neighborhood Collective Efficacy and Participation in Household Surveys
Emilio Lopez-Escobar
Less restrictive regularity conditions for the generalised Jackknife variance estimator for unequal probability sampling
Katja Prevodnik
SESSION 8 - Chair, Alan Karr
Fantasy hour - Open mike format - Express your Thoughts and Ideas!
SESSION 9 - Chair, David Lawrence
Quality Indicators and Survey Costs
Marina Jansson
Measuring Potential Error in Population Estimates For Local Government Areas of England and Wales
Joanne Clements and Ruth Fulton
A Study of Sources for the Error Structure in Estimates of Census Coverage Error Components
Mary Mulry
SESSION 10 - Chair, Giovanna Brancato
TSE in mixed-mode survey systems: A trade-off between errors and costs
Katja Lozar Manfreda, Vasja Vehovar, Nejc Berzelak, Eva Belak
Evaluation of Respondents' Reporting of Medical Events and Relationship to Response Propensities in the Medical Expenditure Survey
Trena Ezzati-Rice, Frederick Rohde, Robert Baskin
Guide to Survey Design
Bo Sundgren, Eva Elvers, Lars Lyberg, Anders Holmberg
SESSION 11 - Chair, Matthias Schonlau
Relationship between Measurement Error and Unit Nonresponse in Household Surveys: An Empiracal Approach in the Absence of Validation Data
Andy Peytchev, Emilia Peytcheva
Common Misinterpretations and Pitfalls in the Use of Cohen's Kappa and Cronbach's Alpha
Paul Biemer
Using Substantive Diagnostics to Evaluate the Validity of Latent Class Indicators of Measurement Error
Clyde Tucker, Brian Meekins, Paul Biemer
SESSION 12 - Chairs, Frauke Kreuter, Lela Mohadjer, Alan Karr, Paul Biemer, Lars Lyberg
Summary of ITSEW 2009 and planning of ITSEW 2010