Abstract #301111

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301111
Activity Number: 242
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 5, 2003 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #301111
Title: Characteristics of Nontelephone Households: A Supplement to the BTS/NHTSA Bicycle and Pedestrian Survey
Author(s): Michael P. Cohen*+ and Jonaki Bose and Lee H. Giesbrecht and J. Neil Russell
Companies: Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Address: U.S. Dept. of Transporation, Washington, DC, 20590-0001,
Keywords: nonsampling error ; mail survey ; walking ; nonresponse ; bias ; evaluation
Abstract:

Over the summer of 2002, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) conducted a nationwide random digit dialing telephone survey to determine bicycling and walking trends among the driving age (16 years or older) U.S. population. In response to concerns that bicycling and walking trends among those living in the 5-6 percent of nontelephone (non land line) households might be different, BTS also conducted a supplemental survey examining bicycling and walking trends among those in nontelephone households. These estimates were collected with the goal of supplementing the data collected from the households with telephones to generate more reliable statistics. This paper documents the process of identifying non-telephone households, drawing the sample, conducting the study and illustrating some of the difficulties related to surveying this population, especially through mail. Some initial findings from the survey will also be presented.

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