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Abstract #302625

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Activity Number: 43
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Sunday, August 7, 2005 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Abstract - #302625
Title: Development, Testing, and Recommendations for Questions on Disability for the American Community Survey
Author(s): Barbara M. Altman*+ and Theresa J. DeMaio and Kristen S. Miller
Companies: National Center for Health Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau and National Center for Health Statistics
Address: 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD, ,
Keywords: American Community Survey ; Disability measures ; Question Development ; Question Testing
Abstract:

In preparation for the full engagement of the American Community Survey (ACS) in 2008, a subcommittee of the Federal ACS Advisory Committee was created to examine the usefulness and adequacy of questions on disability currently being used in the ACS. This presentation maps the elements of that process, including the identification of mandated needs for disability data, identification of the purposes of measurement, development of a basic set of components to address those purposes, extensive cognitive testing for all methodologies to be used in the ACS, and the recommendations---with rationale---made to the Federal ACS Advisory Committee.

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