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Activity Number: 427
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #300555
Title: Comparison of Variance Estimates in a National Health Survey
Author(s): Karen E. Davis*+ and Van Parsons
Companies: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Address: 540 Gaither Road, Room 5355, Rockville, MD, 20850,
Keywords: Sample survey ; Variance estimation
Abstract:

The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is one of the major data collection programs of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). This survey has a complex design that covers an approximately 10-year sample design period, and was redesigned most recently with the 2006 NHIS. The actual design features multiple stages of sampling and weighting adjustments. Simplified and user-friendly procedures have been developed for both in-house and public-use design-based analyses for use with linearization-based methods. In particular, for NHIS public-use data, a standardized design, modified to prevent identification of sampled geographical areas and simplified to consist of two sampled clusters per stratum, has been provided. For simplified procedures to be acceptable to the NHIS-user community, estimates of standard errors produced from simplified structures should be close to those pr


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