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Activity Number: 169
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 1, 2016 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Computing
Abstract #319654
Title: The Effect of Accounting for All Weight Adjustments in the Construction of Student Replicate Weights in a National, Cross-Sectional Study
Author(s): Ruby Johnson* and Peter Siegel
Companies: RTI International and RTI International
Keywords: NPSAS ; Replicate weights ; Calibration ; Weight adjustments ; Nonresponse Weight Adjustment
Abstract:

Replicate weights can be constructed using different procedures, including replicating some or all stages of sampling and replicating some or all weight adjustments. For the 2011-2012 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:12), weights were replicated for only the poststratification weight adjustment for the second stage of sampling (student).

We used data from NPSAS:12 to compare design effect estimates computed using two different approaches to replication. The two different replication approaches were 1) replicating only the student-level poststratification weight adjustment (as was done for NPSAS:12) and 2) replicating all stages of the student-level weight adjustments, which encompasses replicating weight adjustments for student-level multiplicity, unknown eligibility, nonresponse and poststratification.

We compared design effect estimates to explore the differences between the variance estimates using the two approaches.


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