Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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436
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Social Statistics Section
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| Abstract - #309599 |
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Title:
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Critique of a Modification to the Census-Recommended American Community Survey Variance Estimator
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Author(s):
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Eric Grau*+
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Companies:
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Mathematica Policy Research
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Keywords:
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Imputation ;
Variance estimation ;
American Community Survey ;
Auxiliary data
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Abstract:
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Scheer and Levitan propose a modification to the Census-recommended American Community Survey variance estimator, designed to incorporate additional error introduced from variables imputed from auxiliary data sets. This paper will assess and critique this approach. It will consider both the statistical properties of the estimation strategy and its usefulness for applied researchers
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