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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 - #303819 |
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Title:
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Assessing Nonresponse Bias in the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey
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Author(s):
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Susan King*+ and Boriana Chopova and Jennifer Edgar and Jeffrey Gonzalez and David McGrath and Lucilla Tan
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Companies:
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Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Address:
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2 Massachusetts Ave., NE, Washington, DC, 20212,
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Keywords:
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Continuum of resistance ; Intermittent respondent ; Panel survey ; Proxy nonrespondent ; Missing data
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Abstract:
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The Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey is a nationwide survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to estimate the expenditures made by American households. The response rate for the survey is between 75 and 80 percent. In 2006, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a directive calling for any household survey with a response rate below 80 percent to conduct a study determining whether nonresponse introduces bias into the survey estimates. This paper is a synthesis of four studies undertaken to respond to OMB's directive. These studies include comparisons of response rates among survey subgroups, comparisons of respondents to an external data source, and using proxy nonrespondents to estimate nonresponse bias. Collectively, the studies show no meaningful bias in the survey's estimates even though the nonresponse is not 'missing completely at random.'
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