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Activity Number: 359
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #308779
Title: Address-Based Sampling and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Evaluating the Effects of Coverage Bias
Author(s): Katherine Morton*+ and Joseph P. McMichael and Jamie L. Ridenhour and Jonaki Bose
Companies: RTI International and RTI International and RTI International and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Address: 3040 Cornwallis Rd, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709,
Keywords: bias ; coverage ; in-person surveys ; ABS
Abstract:

A common concern of survey researchers is whether the coverage properties of an address-based sampling (ABS) frame create outcome bias in the estimates from in-person surveys. This paper evaluates basic demographics and several drug use and mental health measures obtained from 1,725 respondents in a probability sample of 200 area segments from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). The evaluation compares outcomes from respondents covered by the NSDUH's field enumerated (FE) frame to those covered by an ABS frame derived from the United States Postal Service Computerized Delivery Sequence (USPS CDS) file. After post-stratifying the weights to populations with known ABS undercoverage, we test for significant differences in outcomes between the two frames.


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