Abstract #300481

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300481
Activity Number: 20
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 3, 2003 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #300481
Title: Within-PSU Sampling Strategies for the Redesigned National Health Interview Survey
Author(s): Van L. Parsons*+ and Myron J. Katzoff and Wenxing Zha
Companies: National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics
Address: Rm 915, Hyattsville, MD, 20782-2003,
Keywords: stratification ; clusters ; oversampling
Abstract:

The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is a multiple objective face-to-face survey that is redesigned after each Decennial Census. While target health characteristics remain broad in scope, there is an active design objective of focusing upon the minority domains of Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians. Budgetary considerations placed constraints upon these objectives and the requirement to have sample in every state. Keeping with past tradition, the NHIS has remained a multistage cluster sample. The primary sampling units (PSUs), are counties or metropolitan areas, secondary units are block clusters and tertiary units are households. The goal of our within-PSU sampling strategy is to define a stratification of block clusters, and define cluster and household sampling rules to efficiently sample selected minority groups. We discuss the methods proposed for the NHIS.

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