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Activity Number: 228
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 2, 2010 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #308553
Title: Change in Nontelephone Household Measurement by the U.S. Census Bureau and Its Impact on Telephone Surveys Using a Nontelephone Household Post-Stratification Adjustment
Author(s): Michael Davern*+ and Peter Graven and Michel Boudreaux and Kathleen Thiede Call
Companies: NORC and University of Minnesota and University of Minnesota, SHADAC and University of Minnesota, SHADAC
Address: 55 E Monroe Suite 3000, Chicago, IL, 60603,
Keywords: non-telephone households ; telephone surveys ; sample coverage ; American Community Survey ; Census Bureau
Abstract:

In 2008 the US Census Bureau changed how it measured whether a household had a working telephone. The 2000 censuses, and the 2000-2007 American Community Survey asked specifically about the availability of telephone service, not simply the presence of a telephone. The 2008 ACS, however, instructed respondents to include cell phone service as having a telephone; prior to 2008, this was not made explicit. The result in the ACS was that estimate of households lacking telephone decreased dramatically. For the country as a whole the decline was from 4.8% to 1.6%. Among 18-34 year olds it decreased from 8.6% to 2.4% for American Indians went from 11.6% to 6.7%, Hispanics went from 6.9% to 2.8%, and those below 100 percent of FPL decreased from 10.9% to 4.5%. We examine the implications for this change on the telephone surveys and especially those that use a "Keeter" adjustment.


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