Quasi Address-Based Sampling: A New Cost-Efficient Rejective Sampling Design for Reducing Undercoverage, Nonresponse Rate, and Nonrespondent Substitution Bias

• Activity Number: 44
• Type: Contributed
• Date/Time: Sunday, July 29, 2012 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
• Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
• Author(s): Avinash Singh*+ and Kyle Fennell and Ned English and Jizhou Fu
• Companies: NORC and NORC and NORC and NORC
• Keywords: Field Interviewer ; Field Prompter ; Nonrespondent Substitution ; Quasi-ABS ; Rejective Sampling

Abstract

We propose a cost-efficient rejective sampling alternative to area sampling (for implementing two-phase multistage stratified cluster sampling designs) to satisfy three goals for reducing (1) nonresponse without field interviewing by making in-person contact for a leave-behind screener to selected HUs for eligibility and contact information for the telephone main interview;(2) undercoverage without counting and listing and without using half-open interval by adjusting selected HUs from the address frame; and(3) nonrespondent substitution bias without releasing additional replicates but by selecting alternate HUs at random in neighborhoods within each segment. The basic premise in rejective sampling for the proposed design is that it would be infeasible to sample directly from the domain subpopulation (such as all valid, eligible and responding HUs in a segment).