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Activity Number: 327
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #305726
Title: Modeling County-Level Vaccination Coverage Rates Across Time
Author(s): Nadarajasundaram Ganesh*+ and Philip J. Smith and Kennon R. Copeland and Kirk Wolter
Companies: NORC at the University of Chicago and CDC and NORC at the University of Chicago and NORC at the University of Chicago
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Keywords: EBLUP ; NIS ; Small Area Estimation
Abstract:

A small area model that accounts for trends and state effects is used to obtain county-level vaccination coverage rates for a multi-year period. Model-based county-level estimates - derived using a prediction approach - are a weighted combination of multiple estimates.

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