Abstract #301512

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301512
Activity Number: 467
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 7, 2003 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #301512
Title: Striving for Cost Efficiency: The Resulting Complex Sample Design for the Survey of Youth in Residential Placement
Author(s): Sheila A. Krawchuk*+ and Gary M. Shapiro and Andrea J. Sedlak
Companies: Westat and Westat and Westat
Address: 3100 Wyntree Dr., Norcross, GA, 30071-4734,
Keywords: institutional survey ; two-stage sample design ; differential sampling rates ; geographical clustering of sampling units
Abstract:

The Survey of Youth in Residential Placement (SYRP) is a complex two-stage sample survey of residential facilities and the youths they contain in the United States. There were several unusual aspects of the sample design intended to improve cost efficiency. These included (1) excluding some of the very smallest facilities where "smallest" was defined to reduce costs but also to minimize undercoverage; (2) minimizing the chances of selecting sample in states where there were very few eligible facilities and youths; (3) undersampling small and medium facilities at different rates while at the same time oversampling at different rates two particular youth types; and (4) sampling geographic clusters of small and medium facilities for data collection efficiency, but not sampling clusters of large facilities. This paper discusses the research done and methods implemented to meet these objectives.

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