Adaptive Design Features for Using Address-Based Sampling in a National CATI Survey of Households with Children

• Activity Number: 314
• Type: Invited
• Date/Time: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
• Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
• Author(s): Stanislav Kolenikov*+ and Heather Hammer and Charles DiSogra and Rachel Martonik and Heather Turner and David Finkelhor
• Companies: Abt SRBI and Abt SRBI and Abt SRBI and Abt SRBI and University of New Hampshire and University of New Hampshire
• Keywords: address based sampling ; optimal sampling ; ancillary information

Abstract

The National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV III) documents changes in the incidence and prevalence of children's exposure to a broad array of violence, crime and abuse experiences. NatSCEV III used a multiple frame design that included an address based sample (ABS) frame to construct a nationally representative sample of households with children under 18 years old. The availability of ancillary demographic information matched by a sample vendor to some proportion of the ABS sample addresses suggests the feasibility of increasing sampling efficiency by using an optimal allocation among matched and unmatched strata based on the expected proportion of households with children. The two waves of mailing in NatSCEV III incorporated an adaptive design where demographic data collected in the field during the first wave were used to assess the accuracy of the vendor-appended ancillary demographic data, and to develop an optimal stratified allocation for the second wave. Findings and conclusions about the viability of this approach for NatSCEV III and other national surveys of households with children will be presented.