Handling Frame Problems with Address-Based Sampling and In-Person Household Surveys

• Activity Number: 597
• Type: Topic Contributed
• Date/Time: Thursday, August 7, 2014 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
• Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
• Author(s): Graham Kalton*+ and Richard Sigman
• Companies: Westat and Westat
• Keywords: coverage enhancement ; USPS drop-point addresses ; geocoding errors ; unlocatable addresses

Abstract

Kish (1965) lists four frame problems that can occur with any sampling frame and he describes potential remedies for them. Missing elements may be handled by the use of a separate frame or by some form of linking procedure, such as the half-open interval; clusters of elements by a take-all procedure or by subsampling with reweighting; blanks or foreign elements by simply ignoring the sampled element; and duplicate listings by unique identification or by weighting. This paper describes these problems and potential remedies in relation to the use of the United States Post Office computerized delivery sequence files of residential addresses as a sampling frame for address based sampling of households and persons for in-person household surveys.