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Activity Number: 67
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, July 31, 2016 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
Abstract #319834
Title: Demonstrating Feasibility: Results from the Consumer Expenditure Survey Redesign Proof of Concept Test
Author(s): Laura Erhard* and Lucilla Tan and Nhien To and Brett McBride and Song Park
Companies: Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics
Keywords: field test ; incentives ; individual diaries ; expenditures ; multi-mode
Abstract:

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) began the Gemini Project in 2009 with a goal of redesigning the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) as a response to increasing evidence in measurement error, declining response rates, the emergence of new data collection technologies, and a need for flexibility in addressing changes in the interviewing environment. In 2013, a redesign plan was approved. In order to test the basic underlying structure and components of the new design, a Proof of Concept (POC) test was fielded from July through October 2015. The main objective of the test was to assess the feasibility of completing one wave of the survey redesign, i.e., whether a single-sample expenditure survey design consisting of two personal interviews, individual diaries, incentives, record usage, and technology usage (electronic diaries) was feasible. The redesign "concept" would be proved if no major methodological, operational, or experience issues were evident. This presentation will discuss the POC test's design and results (e.g., response rates, interviewer and respondent feedback, expenditure data), and will be of interest to survey methodologists, data producers, and data users.


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