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Activity Number:
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554
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 6, 2009 : 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 - #303626 |
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Title:
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Conducting Nonresponse Bias Analyses for Two Business Surveys at the U.S. Census Bureau: Methods and (Some) Results
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Author(s):
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Katherine J. Thompson*+
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Companies:
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U.S. Census Bureau
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Address:
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4600 Suitland Road, Washington, DC, 20233,
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Keywords:
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nonresponse bias ; business surveys
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Abstract:
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I present methods of assessing the presence and influence of nonresponse bias on survey estimates used by two economic programs conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau: the Quarterly Services Survey (QSS) and the Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES). These surveys represent a cross-section of non-response adjustment methods: the QSS uses ratio imputation; and the ACES uses weight adjustment. Business surveys compute two types of response rate: unit response rates, the ratio of the unweighted number of responding units to the number of eligible sampled units; and total quantity response rates, the weighted proportion of key estimates reported by responding units and from equivalent quality sources. I describe how these measures were used to target areas of potential nonresponse bias, then present subsequent analyses that used available auxiliary data to confirm initial findings.
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