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Activity Number:
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233
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 8, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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| Abstract - #306902 |
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Title:
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Developing New Methods and Questions for Improving Response and Measurement on Sensitive Questions on the National Health Interview Survey
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Author(s):
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Peter Meyer*+ and James Dahlhamer and John Pleis
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Companies:
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National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics
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Address:
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3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD, 20782,
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Keywords:
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survey methods ; NHIS ; health ; economic measures ; NCHS
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Abstract:
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This presentation is an overview of a study conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. An experiment was fielded that evaluated alternative methods for asking income questions, response to proposed new wealth questions, and respondent willingness to provide partial social security numbers. The field test took advantage of oversampling on the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). These "screener" households do not have at least one black, Hispanic, or Asian member and are usually screened out of the sample. For this study, the usually excluded households were used as a separate sample and asked the test items along with standard NHIS questions. The purpose of this study is to test methods for asking sensitive questions and determine the feasibility of using "screened out" samples in future research.
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