The views expressed here are those of the individual authors and not necessarily those of the JSM sponsors, their officers, or their staff.
Online Program Home
Abstract Details
|
Activity Number:
|
87
|
|
Type:
|
Contributed
|
|
Date/Time:
|
Sunday, July 29, 2012 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
|
|
Sponsor:
|
Section on Survey Research Methods
|
| Abstract - #304794 |
|
Title:
|
Allocation of Sample for the 2010 Redesign of the Consumer Expenditure Survey
|
|
Author(s):
|
Stephen Ash*+ and David Swanson
|
|
Companies:
|
U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics
|
|
Address:
|
4600 Silver Hill Rd, Washington, DC, 20233, United States
|
|
Keywords:
|
two-stage design ;
optimal allocation ;
survey ;
expenditures
|
|
Abstract:
|
This paper discusses the allocation of sample for the 2010 redesign of the Consumer Expenditures Surveys (CE). CE is a national survey of U.S. households that measures the expenditures made by households on different categories of items. The survey actually consists of two sub-surveys. Small expenditures are collected in the CE Diary Survey and larger expenditures are collected in the CE Quarterly Interview Survey. Both CE surveys use a two-stage sample design, where the first-stage is a sample of counties or groups of counties and the second-stage is a sample of households within the counties or groups of counties. In this paper we discuss methods for optimally allocating the survey's overall sample to the two sub-surveys where optimality is with respect to minimizing the survey's overall variance. Then, we compare several alternative methods for optimally allocating the sample to the s
|
The address information is for the authors that have a + after their name.
Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
Back to the full JSM 2012 program
|
2012 JSM Online Program Home
For information, contact jsm@amstat.org or phone (888) 231-3473.
If you have questions about the Continuing Education program, please contact the Education Department.