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Abstract #302181

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Activity Number: 52
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 8, 2004 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #302181
Title: Survey Calibration to CPS Household Statistics
Author(s): Varma Nadimpalli*+ and David R. Judkins and Adam Chu
Companies: Westat and Westat and Westat
Address: , Rockville, MD, 20850,
Keywords: raking ; post-stratification
Abstract:

It is common practice on many household surveys to post-stratify the sampling weights to demographic statistics from the Census Bureau. On some surveys, it is also useful to post-stratify to household statistics from the Current Population Survey, such as the number of households containing children in a specific age range. These are less stable than demographic statistics on age, sex, race, and ethnicity. In addition, if the statistics are not published by the Bureau, then estimation can be delayed by problems in the release of pubic-use data files by the Bureau. One focus of this paper is on the smoothing of CPS household statistics for use in post-stratification and on forward extrapolation, as needed. The other focus is on how to reflect the variability of the CPS statistics in the corresponding estimate of sampling errors.

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