The Presence and Characteristics of Households at Addresses Obtained by Traditional Field Listing and from USPS-Based Lists

• Activity Number: 359
• Type: Contributed
• Date/Time: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
• Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
• Author(s): Sarah Shore*+ and Jill Montaquila and Valerie Hsu
• Companies: Westat and Westat and Westat
• Keywords: Address-based sampling ; National Children's Study ; Computerized Delivery Sequence File ; disposition codes

Abstract

This paper builds upon a previous evaluation of the United States Postal Service (USPS)-based address frames, conducted in the Vanguard Study locations of the National Children's Study. The prior research compared an address frame created by traditional listing (without additional missed units added during data collection) with a USPS-based address frame. We continue this research by reviewing addresses added as a result of a procedure to identify units missed in the original listing against the USPS-based lists. Using the earlier matching results, addresses added through the missed unit procedure, and household screening data for all addresses obtained by field listing, we examine and compare the household eligibility status for originally listed addresses and addresses added by the missed unit procedure, according to whether or not the address is on the USPS list.