Abstract #300995

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300995
Activity Number: 113
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 4, 2003 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #300995
Title: Linking Retail Establishments Reported in a Household Survey
Author(s): Charles Mason*+ and William Cheng
Companies: Bureau of Labor Statistics and Capital One
Address: 3615 PSB 2 Mass. Ave. NE, Washington, DC, 20212-0001,
Keywords: record linkage ; Soundex ; retail establishments
Abstract:

The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Point of Purchase survey collects information on the retail establishments where consumers purchase the goods and services covered by the Consumer Price Index. Among the data collected are the establishment names and addresses, which are used as a sampling frame for the selection of establishments priced in the CPI. Prior to selecting the sample of establishments, the raw data must be coded and collapsed so that multiple reports of the same establishment are combined. Additionally, address information is refined so that field economists can locate and initiate the selected establishments into the CPI. This paper reports on the recent change by the BLS from a computer-assisted manual coding and collapsing procedure to a statistical linking processes that utilizes Soundex and additional scoring considerations.

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