BLS Research Papers Index

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• A Comparison Of Estimators For The Mean Of A Finite Population, Based On A Systematic Sample
• A Comparison for the Business Registers Used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau
• A Comparison of Job Openings Surveys: Concepts and Survey
• A Comparison of Job Openings Surveys: Concepts and Survey Design
• A Comparison on Data Utility between Publishing Fixed Intervals versus Traditional Cell Suppression on Tabular Employment Data
• A General Model of the Survey Interaction Process
• A Graphical Method for Assessing the Results of Fuzzy Clustering
• A Heuristic Evaluation of a World Wide Web Prototype
• A Method of Reconciling Discrepant National and Subnational Employment and Unemployment Estimates
• A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Size Class Methodologies and Employment Changes March 1993 to March 2003
• A Multiple Strategy Perspective on Behavioral and Laboratory Frequency Estimation
• A New Variance Estimator for a Two-phased Restratified Sample with PPS Sampling at Both Phases
• A Note on the Effects of Extreme Price Values on Price Indexes
• A Proposed Estimation Procedure for CPS Gross Flows
• A Qualitative Approach to the Study of BLS Establishment Survey Nonresponse
• A Qualitative Study of Nonresponse Factors Affecting BLS Establishment Surveys: Results
• A Response Model For The International Price Program
• A Response Model For the International Price Program
• A Shaker Approach to Web Site Design
• A Simulation Comparison Between Alternative Outlier Resistant Ratio Estimators
• A Spatial Analysis of Price Change in CPI Housing Index
• A Study Of Donor Pools and Imputation Methods For Missing Employment Data
• A Study in the Process of Planning, Designing and Managing a Survey Program: The case of time-use surveys at the BLS
• A Summary of Quality-Assessment Research Conducted on the 1996 Displaced-Worker/Job-Tenure/Occupational-Mobility Supplement
• A Usability Test of Fedstats, Gateway to Federal Statistics
• Access to Confidential Statistical Agency Data
• Accounting for Business Births and Deaths in CES: Bias vs. Net Birth/Death Modeling
• Adapting Usability Test Methods to Improve a Data Extraction Tool (FERRETT)
• Adjusting Establishment Selection Probabilities And Number Of Occupational Selections To Reduce Variances In BLS Compensation Surveys
• Adjusting for A Calendar Effect in Employment Time Series
• Affordability, Income Adequacy, and Subjective Assessments of Economic Well-Being: Preliminary Findings
• Allocating Sample to Strata Proportional to Aggregate Measure of Size with Both Upper and Lower Bounds on the Number of Units in Each Stratum
• Alternative Imputation Methods for Wage Data
• Alternative Imputation Models For Wage Related Data Collected From Establishment Surveys
• Alternative Imputation Procedures For Item Non-response from New Establishments in the Universe
• Alternative Methods for Updating Wage Data From the Occupational Employment Statistics Survey
• Alternative Models for the Distribution of Earnings by Occupation
• Alternative Sample Allocations for the U.S. Current Employment Statistics Survey
• An Application Of Mathematical Programming To Sample Allocation
• An Application Of Regression And Calibration Estimation To Post-Stratification In A Household Survey
• An Evaluation Of Alternative Imputation Methods
• An Evaluation of Different Design Options for Presenting Edit Messages in Web Forms
• An Examination Of Spending Patterns Of Families Receiving Forms Of Public Assistance
• An Expert System for Reviewing Commodity Substitutions in the Consumer Price Index
• An Extended Review of the X11ARIMA Seasonal Adjustment Package
• Analysis of Divergence between Chained CPI-U and Regular CPI-U for the All_US-All_Items Indexes (2000-2002)
• Analysis of Recall Effect on the Reporting of Expenditures for the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey
• Analytical Bias Reduction for Small Samples in the U.S. Consumer Price Index
• Annual Measures of Job Creation and Job Destruction Created from Quarterly Microdata
• Answering Questions, Questioning Answers: Evaluating Data Quality in an Establishment Survey
• Application of Cognitive Methods to an Establishment Survey: A Demonstration Using the Current Employment Statistics Survey
• Applying Cognitive Theory and Techniques to an Establishment Survey
• Apportionment Methods for the House of Representatives and the Court Challenge
• Approaches for Incorporating User-Centered Design into CAI Development
• Are Survey Weights Necessary? The Maximum Likelihood Approach to Sample Survey Inference
• Assessing Measurement Errors in a Touchtone Recognition Survey
• Assessing the Bias Associated with Alternative Contact Strategies in Telephone Time-Use Surveys
• Assessing the Impact of Imputation on the Sampling Variance of the U.S. Consumer Price Index
• Assessing the Usefulness and Usability of Online Learning Activities: MapStats for Kids
• Assigning Permanent Random Number to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Longitudinal (Universe) Data Base
• Automation Strategies for the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (CEW) Program
• Business Register Quality Metrics
• Calling Effort and Nonresponse for Telephone Panel Surveys
• Causes and Treatments of Non-Economic Fluctuations in Average Weekly Hours and Average Hourly Earnings Series
• Characteristics of Survival: Longevity of Business Establishments in the Business Employment Dynamics Data
• Choosing a Variance Computation Method for the Revised Consumer Price Index
• Co-Evolution of Research and Practice: The BLS and Fedstats Case
• Cognitive Issues Associated with Collecting Cash Contributions in the Consumer Expenditure Survey
• Cognitive Testing of New Forms for the Current Employment Statistics Survey
• Collecting All-Employee Earnings Data in the Current Employment Statistics Survey:A Comparison of Two Concepts
• Commercial Payroll Software And The Quality Of Employment Data
• Comparing Alternative Median Wage Rate Estimatiors for the Occupational Employment Statistics Survey
• Comparing Current Population Survey Estimates Computed Using Different Composite Estimators
• Comparing market basket changes and the CPI
• Comparison between Chained CPI-U and Regular CPI-U: All-U.S. Indexes at Lower Item-aggregate Levels (2000--2003)
• Comparison between Newly Proposed Response Rates and Current Response Rates for the TPOP Survey
• Comparison of Chained CPI-U and Regular CPI-U All-U.S. Indexes in the Housing Sector (2000--2004)
• Comparison of Item Nonresponse and Unit Nonresponse in Household Surveys
• Comparison of Outcome Codes Used for Attrition Calculations for Telephone Samples
• Comparison of Variance Estimation Methods for the National Compensation Survey
• Comparison of Variance Estimation Techniques for a Price Index With Dependent Weights
• Comparison of Variance Estimation Techniques for a Price Index with Non-Independent Weights
• Conceptual and Practical Issues in the Statistical Design and Analysis of Usability Tests
• Concurrent Seasonal Adjustment for Industry Employment Statistics
• Conditional Properties of Post-Stratified Estimators Under Normal Theory
• Confidence Intervals For Sub-Domain Parameters When The Sub-Domain Sample Size Is Random
• Conversational Interviewing and Data Quality
• Converting CES Reporters From TDR to Web Data Collection
• Correcting for Omitted Variable and Measurement-Error Bias in Autoregressive Model Estimation With Panel Data
• D.C. Graph: Software For Converting Tables To Graphs Via A Simple, Easy To Use Interface
• Data Collection Issues Related to Implementing the Redesigned Current Employment Statistics Survey
• Data Collection Issues Related to Implementing the Redesigned Current Employment Statistics Survey
• Data Confidentiality and Access Issues Among Federal Agencies
• Data Dissemination to a Web-Based Audience: Managing Usability Testing during the Development Cycle
• Data Exploration Interfaces Meaningful Web Database Mining by Non-Statisticians
• Decision Criteria For Using Automated Coding In Survey Processing
• Deeply Discounted Usability Test of a Survey Data Extraction Tool
• Designing Establishment Survey Questionnaires
• Designing Questions To Identify People with Disabilities in Labor Force Surveys: A History of the Work of BLS to Measure the Employment Level of Adults with Disabilities
• Designing Questions to Identify People with Disabilities in Labor Force Surveys: The Effort to Measure the Employment Level of Adults with Disabilities in the CPS
• Detecting Possibly Fraudulent or Error-Prone Survey Data Using Benford's Law
• Determining Within-PSU Sample Sizes for the Consumer Expenditure Survey
• Developing Annual Estimates of Hires and Separations
• Developing Poverty Thresholds
• Developing a New Business Survey: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Developing a New Business Survey: Job Openings and Labor Turnover at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Developing an Integrated System for Mixed Mode Data Collection in a Large Monthly Establishment Survey
• Diagnostics for Evaluation of Superpopulation Models for Variance Estimation Under Systematic Sampling
• Distributions and Transformations for Family Expenditures
• Do Current Methods Used to Improve Response to Telephone Surveys Reduce Nonresponse Bias?
• Does Questionnaire Color Affect Survey Response Rates?
• Earnings Concepts and Data Availability for the Current Employment Statistics Survey: Findings from Cognitive Interviews
• Economic Well-Being Based on Consumer Expenditures and Personal Assessments of Minimum Income and Minimum Spending
• Editing Strategies Used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in Data Collection over the Internet
• Effect of Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey
• Effects of Incentives in the U.S. Consumer Expenditures Quarterly Survey
• Efficacy of Prenotification Letters in Improving Response Rates in the Telephone Point of Purchase Survey
• Ensuring Data Quality in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey
• Ensuring Data Quality in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey
• Establishment Surveys: Designing The Survey Operations Of The Future
• Establishment Survival Using the BLS Longitudinal Database
• Estimates of Year-to-Year Change in Costs Per Hour Worked From the Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Survey
• Estimating Components of Variance of Price Change from a Scanner-Based Sample
• Estimating Dynamic Price Indexes
• Estimating Missing Prices in Producer Price Index
• Estimating Price Relatives for the U.S. Consumer Price Index When Priced Items are Restratified
• Estimating Price Relatives for the U.S. Consumer Price Index When Priced Items are Restratified
• Estimating Variances for a Scanner-Based Consumer Price Index
• Estimating Variances in the National Compensation Survey, Using Balanced Repeated Replication
• Estimating the Frequency of Events from Unnatural Categories
• Estimating the Level of Underreporting of Expenditures among Expenditure Reporters: A Micro-level Latent Class Analysis
• Estimating the Level of Underreporting of Expenditures among Expenditure Reporters: A Microlevel Latent Class Analysis
• Estimating the Sampling Variance for Alternative Estimators of the U.S. Consumer Price Index
• Estimation Procedures for the Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Statistics Program
• Estimation and Analysis of Variance Components for the Revised CPI Housing Sample
• Estimation and Comparison of Chained CPI-U Standard Errors With Regular CPI-U Results (2000-2001)
• Estimation of Variance Components for the U.S. CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
• Estimation of Variance Components for the U.S. Consumer Price Index: A Comparative Study
• Estimation of the Change in Total Employment Using the U.S. Current Employment Statistics Survey
• Estimators for Average Hourly Earnings and Average Weekly Hours for the Current Employment Statistics Survey
• Evaluating Estimates of Labor Demand and Turnover
• Evaluating Numeric Rating Scales: Replicated Results
• Evaluating Survey Data: Making The Transition From Pretesting to Quality Assessment
• Evaluating Web Site Structure: A Set of Techniques
• Evaluating a Calibration Weighting Scheme for Elementary Indexes for Commodities and Services in the U.S. Consumer Price Index
• Evaluating the 1995 BLS Labor Force Projections
• Evaluating the Displaced Worker/Job-Tenure Supplement to the CPS: An Illustration of Multimethod Quality Assessment Research
• Evaluation Of Confidence Interval Methodology For The Occupational Compensation Survey Program
• Evaluation of CPS National Variances
• Evaluation of Composite Estimation Methods for Cost Weights in the CPI
• Evaluation of Confidence Interval Estimation Methods for the National Compensation Survey
• Evaluation of Confidence Interval Methodology for the National Compensation Survey
• Evaluation of Generalized Variance Function Estimators for the U.S. Current Employment Survey
• Evaluation of Proposed County-Level Interval Publication of ES-202 Employment Data
• Evaluation of X-11 and Model-based Seasonal Adjustment Methods for U.S. Economic Time Series
• Evaluation of the Detectability and Inferential Impact of Nonresponse Bias in Establishment Surveys
• Experiences Implementing Establishment Survey Questionnaire Development and Testing at Selected U.S. Government Agencies
• Exploratory Analysis of Generalized Variance Function Models for the U.S. Current Employment Survey
• Federal Government Shutdown: Options for CPS Data Collection
• From Impressions To Data: Increasing The Objectivity Of Cognitive Interviews
• Genesis of an Establishment Survey: Research and Development for the Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey at the BLS
• Geocoding Procedure To find Geographic Identifiers in the Housing Component of the Consumer Price Index
• Handling Program Constraints in the Sample Design for the Commodities and Services Component of the U.S. Consumer Price Index
• Health Insurance Coverage For Families With Children: Findings From The Consumer Expenditure Survey
• Historical Reconstruction of Employment Time Series for Metropolitan Areas in the Current Employment Statistics Program
• Household Telephone Service and Usage Patterns in the United States in 2004: A Demographic Profile
• How Do People Interpret Open-Ended Categorical Questions?
• How Interviewers' Conversational Flexibility Affects the Accuracy of Survey Data
• How Much Can you Trust the Answers You Get Using Cognitive Interviews?
• How the Memorability of Events Affects Frequency Judgments
• Identifying and Accounting for Mergers and Acquistions in Measuring Employment
• Implementation of the Current Employment Statistics Redesign: Data Collection
• Implementing the NAICS for Business Surveys at BLS
• Improved Preliminary Estimation of Total Employment Change for the U.S. Current Employment Statistics Survey
• Improved Timeliness Of Geographic Data Through Automation Of The Current Employment Statistics Program
• Improving the Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey
• Imputation of Benefit Related Data for the National Compensation Survey
• Imputation of Benefit Related Data for the National Compensation Survey
• Inferential Methods to Identify Possible Interviewer Fraud Using Leading Digit Preference Patterns and Design Effect Matrices
• Is a User-Friendly Diary More Effective? Findings from a Field Test
• Is a User-Friendly Diary More Effective? Measuring the Effects on Data Collection
• Iteration of Second-Stage and Composite Procedures in the Current Population Survey
• Limitations of Balanced Half Sampling
• Literature at the Human-Computer Seam
• Longitudinal Analysis of Economic Impacts: A Case Study of the Rust Belt
• Longitudinal Establishment Microdata at the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Development, Uses, and Access
• Longitudinal Microdata Outlier Detection Techniques
• Look Before You Click: A Relation Browser for Federal Statistics Websites
• Maximizing and Minimizing Overlap When Selecting a Large Number of Units per Stratum Simultaneously for Two Designs
• Maximizing and Minimizing Overlap of Ultimate Sampling Units, Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, 706-711
• Maximizing and Minimizing Overlap when Selecting a Large Number of Units Per Stratum Simultaneously for Two Designs
• Maximizing the Overlap of Sample Units for Two Designs with Simultaneous Selection
• Maximizing the Overlap of Sample Units for Two Designs with Simultaneous Selection
• Measurement Differences in Key Economic Indicators
• Measurement Of Different Design Effects
• Measuring Customer Service At The Bureau Of Labor Statistics
• Measuring Employee Hours in Government Surveys
• Measuring Employment From Birth And Deaths In The Current Employment Statistics Survey
• Measuring How People Spend Time
• Measuring Key Economic Indicators in U.S. Government Establishment Surveys
• Measuring the Demand for Labor in the United States: The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey
• Metadata Standards and Metadata Registries: An Overview
• Methodologies for Estimating Mean Wages for Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Data3
• Methods of Surveying All Households with Telephone Service
• Minding the Children: Understanding How Recall and Conceptual Interpretations Influence Responses to a Time-Use Summary Questions
• Model-Based Labor Force estimates for Sub-National Areas with large Survey Errors
• Modeling of Survey Response Rates and Reporting Rates in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Interview
• Modeling the Likelihood of Interviews and Refusals: Using Call History Data to Improve Efficiency of Effort in a National RDD Survey
• Modeling the Realized Outlet Sample for the Commodities and Services Component of the U.S. Consumer Price Index
• Multiple Workloads per Stratum Designs
• New Data Collections Using Touchtone Data Entry
• New Tools for Labor Market Analysis:JOLTS
• Nonparametric Regression with Complex Survey Data
• Nonresponse Adjustment In Certainty Strata For An Establishment Survey
• Now that the Study is Over, What Did You Really Tell Us? Identifying and Correcting Measurement Error in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey Pilot
• Now that the Study is Over, What Did You Really Tell Us? Identifying and Correcting Measurement Error in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey Pilot Test
• On Nonresponse Adjustment via Calibration
• On Small Area Estimation under Informative Sampling
• On Survey Sample Designs for Consumer Price Indexes
• One Way To Build An Estimator, With Applications To Sampling Theory
• Optimal Allocation For Stratified Telephone Survey Designs
• Optimal Pairing for Stratum Collapse Methods with Interviewer-Level Measurement Error Shared Across Strata
• Optimizing Call Time Lags by Modeling the Probability of Call Outcomes
• Organization and Management of a Data Collection Center
• Organization and Management of a Data Collection Center
• Outlier Detection and Treatment in the Current Employment Statistics Survey
• Overview Of Data Editing Procedures In Surveys Administered By The Bureau Of Labor Statistics: Procedures And Implications
• Overview of the CES Redesign
• Performance Comparisons of Laspeyres Indexes with Geometric Mean Indexes in the U.S. Consumer Price Index
• Permanent and Collected Random Number Sampling and the Coverage of Births and Deaths
• Permanent and Collocated Random Number Sampling and the Coverage of Births and Deaths
• Phase-in of the Redesigned National Compensation Survey Area Sample
• Post Stratification and Conditional Variance Estimation
• Pre-testing Sensitive Questions: Perceived Sensitivity, Comprehension, and Order Effects of Questions about Income and Weight
• Predicting Births In The Current Employment Statistics Survey
• Predicting Wave Nonresponse from Prior Wave Data Quality
• Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Federal-State Cooperative Programs of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Procedures for Reducing Measurement Error in Establishment Surveys
• Quality of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Business Establishment List as a Sampling Frame
• Recent Experiences in Survey Coordination and Sample Rotation within Monthly Business Establishment Surveys
• Recognition of More Than One Possible Trend in Time Series: Redesigned Screening of Microdata in the Current Employment Survey
• Reconciling Labor Turnover and Employment Statistics
• Reconciling Labor Turnover and Employment Statistics
• Redesigned Current Population Survey Raking
• Redesigning the Consumer Price Index Area Sample
• Redesign of Current Population Survey Raking to Control Totals
• Redesign of the National Compensation Survey
• Reducing Sample Sizes in the National Compensation Survey in Response to Budget Cuts
• Relationship Between Data Quality and Collection Date in the Consumer Price Index Housing Survey
• Relationship Between Household Nonresponse, Demographics, and Unemployment Rate in the Current Population Survey
• Reporting Absences from Home
• Reporting Absences from Home: Results of Cognitive Testing of the American Time Use Survey's Missed Days Summary Question
• Report on Experimental Poverty Measures: 1990 to 1997
• Researcher Access To Confidential Microdata At The Bureau Of Labor Statistics
• Respondent Motivation, Response Burden, and Data Quality in the Survey of Employer-Provided Training
• Response Analysis Survey: A Qualitative look at Response and Nonresponse in the American Time Use Survey
• Response Analysis Surveys for Assessing Response Errors in Establishment Surveys
• Retrospective Assignment of Permanent Random Numbers for Ohlsson's Exponential Sampling Overlap Maximization Procedure for Designs with More than One Sample Unit per Stratum
• Sample Allocation and Selection for the National Compensation Survey
• Sample Design And Estimation For The National Compensation Survey
• Sample Design in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey
• Sample Expansion for Probability Proportional to Size without Replacement Sampling
• Sample Redesign for the Current Employment Statistics Survey
• Sample Redesign for the Introduction of the Telephone Point of Purchase Survey Frames In the Commodities and Services Component of the U.S. Consumer Price Index
• Sampling Weights For The Housing Sample Of The Consumer Price Index
• Sampling and Reporting in Time Use Surveys
• Sampling for Employment at New Establishments in a Monthly Business Survey
• Seasonal Adjustment Of Hybrid Economic Time Series
• Selecting the Employment Cost Index Survey Sample as a Subsample of the National Compensation Survey
• Small Area Modeling Research for the Occupational Employment Survey
• Smoothing Variance Estimates for Price Indexes Over Time
• Some Issues in Seasonal Adjustment When Modeling Interventions
• Some Observations on Price Index Estimators
• Standards for Statistical Surveys for Producing and Disseminating Survey Estimates in the U.S. Statistical System
• Standing on the Outside, Looking In: Tapping Data Users to Compare and Review Surveys
• Statistical Problems In BLS Compensation Surveys When Collected Establishment Data Differs From The Assigned Data
• Strategies for Estimating Category Frequency: Effects of Abstractness and Distinctiveness
• Stratification by Size Revisited
• Stratified Telephone Survey Designs
• Study of Volatility and Smoothing of Estimated Variances in the Employment Cost Index Program
• Subjective Assessments of Economic Well-Being and Preliminary Findings from Miami
• Survey Data Collection Using Complex Automated Questionnaires
• Survey Response Measurement at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Temporal Patterns of Survey Response Rates and Reporting Rates in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Interview and Other Panel Surveys
• Temporal Patterns of Survey Response Rates and Reporting Rates in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Interview and Other Panel Surveys
• Testing a New Response Mode For an Establishment Survey: Reporting Response Rates in a Pilot Study of Touchtone Response
• The Allocation of Sample Size In Stratified Telephone Sample Designs
• The Business Establishment List - Standard Statistical Establishment List Comparison Project
• The Challenge Of Redesigning The Consumer Price Index Area Sample
• The Effect of Attrition on Variance and Index Estimates in the Housing Component of the Consumer Price Index
• The Effect of Some Design and Estimation Issues on the Variance Estimates of the Employment Cost Index
• The Effects Of Advance Letters And Reminder/Thank You Letters On Reducing Nonresponse In An Establishment Survey: An Experimental Study
• The Effects Of Health Insurance Status On Consumer Spending
• The Effects of Item and Unit Nonresponse on Estimates of Labor Force Participation
• The Impact of Prompting on Response Rates: Experience with Touchtone Reporting in the CES Program
• The Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey: Preparing to Publish Data for a New Survey
• The Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey: What Initial Data Show
• The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey: Preparing to Publish Data for a New Survey
• The Maximization and Minimization of Sample Overlap Problems: A Half Century of Results
• The National Compensation Survey: The New BLS Integrated Compensation Program
• The National Compensation Survey: The New BLS Integrated Compensation Program
• The Occupational Safety And Health Survey: Instrument Redesign
• The Reinterview Program for the BLS Compensation Surveys
• The Reliability Of The Locality Pay Estimates
• The Research Agenda On Issues Surrounding The Definition Of Racial And Ethnic Categories
• The Role of Metadata in Statistics
• The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Longitudinal Establishment Database
• The Use of Geocoding to Locate Outlets Outside of Sample Area Boundaries to Determine Significant Areas of Commerce
• The Utility and Flexibility of Behavior Coding as a Method for Evaluating Questionnaires
• The Variance of the Variance of Samples From a Finite Population
• Translating a Telephone Survey on Alcohol and Drug Use: Processes and Lessons Learned
• Transmission of Producer Prices Through Stages of Processing
• Trends In Inequality Using Consumer Expenditures: 1960 To 1993
• Two Sides of A Single Coin?: Dimensions of Change in Different Settings: Findings from Cognitive Interviews
• Update on the Redesign of the National Compensation Survey
• Usability Issues Associated with Converting Establishment Surveys to Web-Based Data Collection
• Usability Testing Web Sites at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Usability Testing of Data Access Tools
• Usability Testing of Data Access Tools
• Usability Testing of World Wide Web Sites
• Use of Administrative Data To Explore Effect of Establishment Nonresponse Adjustment on the National Compensation Survey Estimates
• Use of Auxiliary Information to Evaluate a Synthetic Estimator
• Use of Overlap Maximization in the Redesign of the National Compensation Survey
• Use of an Audit Program to Improve Confidentiality Protection of Tabular Data at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Using Cognitive Testing in the Design of a Business Survey Questionnaire
• Using E-Mail/World Wide Web For Establishment Survey Data Collection
• Using Expert Systems To Model And Improve Survey Classification Processes
• Using Survival Analysis To Predict Sample Retention Rates
• Using the American Community Survey to Enhance the Current Population Survey: Opportunities and Issues
• Variance Estimation for Noise Components in Time Series from a Survey
• Variance Estimation for Small Domains
• Variance Estimation for the National Compensation Survey When PSUs are Clustered Prior to the Second Phase of Sampling
• Variance Estimators For Variables That Have Both Observed And Imputed Values
• Variance Measures for Seasonally Adjusted Employment and Employment Change
• Variance Measures for X-11 Seasonal Adjustment: A Summing Up of Empirical Research
• Verbal Reports are Data! A Theoretical Approach to Cognitive Interviews
• Wassily Leontief and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1941-54
• Web Collection in the Covered Employment and Wages Program
• Web Data Collection at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: An Organizational View
• Weighting Scheme Comparison in the International Price Program
• What's Work? Respondents' Interpretations of Work-Related Summary Questions
• What's Work? Respondents' Interpretation of Work-Related Summary Questions
• What an Indicator of Labor Demand Means for U.S. Labor Market Analysis: Initial Results from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey
• When Should We Ask Follow-up Questions About Items in Lists?
• When and How Should Survey Interviewers Clarify Question Meaning?
• Who Lives Here? Survey Undercoverage and Household Roster Questions
• Why Do We Need Time-Use Data?
• Zero-calibrated Variance Estimators

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• A Comparison of Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI) with Paper-and-Pencil Interviews (PAPI) in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
• A Study of Intercohort Change in Women's Work Patterns and Earnings
• An Analysis of the Consequences of Employer Linked Health Insurance Coverage in the United States
• Assessing School to Work Transitions in the United States
• Captial Market Constraints, Parental Wealth and the Transition to self-Employment among Men and Women
• Characterizing Leave for Maternity: Modeling the NLSY Data
• Dynamic Models of the Joint Determination of Labor Supply and Family Structure
• Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
• Employer Learning and the Signaling Value of Education
• Employment Continuity Among New Mothers
• Evaluating Competing Theories of Worker Mobility
• Evaluation of the 1989 Child-care Supplement in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
• Family Background and Labor Market Outcomes
• Gender Differences in the Quit Behavior of Young Workers
• High School Employment
• High School Employment: Consumption or Investment
• How the Federal Government Uses Data from the National Longitudinal Surveys
• Incentive Pay, Information, and Earnings: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
• Informal Training: A Review of Existing Data and Some New Evidence
• Participation in Low-Wage Labor Markets by Young Men
• Poverty Dynamics Among Mature Women: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Surveys, 1967-1989
• Report on the NLSY Round 16 Recall Experiment
• Responses of Female Labor Supply and Fertility to the Demographic Cycle
• Retirement in a Family Context: A Structural Model for Husbands and Wives
• Self-Selection and Internal Migration in the United States
• Technological Change and the Skill Acquisition of Young Workers
• The Determinants and Consequences of Public Sector and Private Sector Training
• The Effect of Interview Length on Attrition in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
• The Effects of Unemployment Compensation on the Unemployment of Youth
• The Evolving Structures of Female Work Activites: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Surveys, 1967-1989
• The Impact of Private Sector Training on Race and Gender Wage Differentials and the Career Patterns of Young Workers
• The Intergenerational Effects of Fatherlessness on Educational Attainment and Entry-Level Wages
• Training, Wages, and the Human Capital Model
• Transitions from School to Work: A Survey of Research Using the National Longitudinal Surveys
• Women's Employment During Pregnancy and Following Birth
• Work Experience, Job Tenure, Job Separation, and Wage Growth

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• A Comparison of Income, Expenditures, and Home Market Value Distributions Using Luxembourg Income Study Data from the 1990's
• A Comparison of the Substitution Effects for Input and Output Price Indexes
• A Complete Characterization of the Implications of Slutzky Symmetry for the Linear, Log-Linear, and Semi-Log Incomplete Demand System Models
• A General Dependence Test and Applications
• A General Nonparametric Test for Misspecification
• A Kernel Test for Neglected Nonlinearity
• A Micro-level Analysis of Recent Increases in Labor Force Participation among Older Workers
• A Model of Asymmetric Employer Learning With Testable Implications
• A Model of Asymmetric Employer Learning with Testable Implications
• A Note on Estimating Small Sample Bias in Two Price Index Formula
• A State Space Model-Based Approach to Intervention Analysis in the Seasonal Adjustment of BLS Series: Some Empirical Results
• Adverse Selection and Pay Equity
• Alternative Consumer Price Index Aggregations: Plutocratic and Democratic Approaches
• An Anticipative Feedback Solution for the Infinite-Horizon, Linear-Quadratic, Dynamic, Stackelberg Game
• An Examination of the Difference Between the CPI and the PCE Deflator
• An Improved Nonparametric Test for Misspecification of Functional Form
• An Update on Bridge Jobs: The HRS War Babies
• Are Those Who Bring Work Home Really Working Longer Hours? Implications for BLS Productivity Measures
• Are Traditional Retirements a Thing of the Past? New Evidence on Retirement Patterns and Bridge Jobs
• Belated Training: The Relationship Between Training, Tenure, and Wages
• Bias in the Consumer Price Index: What Is the Evidence?
• Business Employment Dynamics: Tabulations by Employer Size
• Business Employment Dynamics: Tabulations by Employer Size
• Changing Welfare in a Changing World? Income and Expenditure Inequalities in the Czech and Slovak Republics
• Compensation Inequality
• Compensation Supplements and Use of Incentive Pay in U.S. Labor Markets
• Compensation in Part-Time Jobs versus Full-Time Jobs: What if the Job is the Same?
• Constructing Household Specific Consumer Price Indexes: An Analysis of Different Techniques and Methods
• Constructing Instruments for Regressions with Measurement Error When No Additional Variables Are Available: Comment
• Constructing Interarea Compensation Cost Indexes With Data from Multiple Surveys
• Cyclical Aggregation Bias
• Determinants of Training: An Analysis Using Both Employer And Employee Characteristics
• Developing a New Poverty Line for the USA: Are There Lessons for India?
• Did Job Security Decline in the 1990s?
• Differences in Intergenerational Mobility across the Earnings Distribution
• Discussion and Presentation of the Disability Test Results from the Current Population Survey
• Dividing the Costs and Returns to General Training
• Do Older Workers Respond to Changes in Social Security Benefits? A Look at the Time Series Evidence
• Duration Dependence in Personal Bankruptcy
• Economic Well-Being Based on Income, Consumer Expenditures and Personal Assessments of Minimal Needs
• Episodes of Collective Invention
• Establishment Wage Differentials
• Estimated U.S. Manufacturing Capital and Technology Based on an Estimated Dynamic Economic Model
• Estimating Linear Regressions with Mismeasured, Possibly Endogenous, Binary Explanatory Variables
• Evaluating Formula Bias in Various Indexes Using Simulations
• Executive Compensation: Six Questions That Need Answering
• Experimental Poverty Measures Under Alternative Treatments of Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenditures: An Application of the Consumer Expenditure Survey
• Explaining Tranquility in the Midst of Turbulence: U.S. Multinationals' Intrafirm Trade, 1966-1997
• Explaining the Rent-OER Inflation Divergence, 1999-2006
• Firm-Wide Versus Employment-Specific Labor-Market Practices
• Formal and Informal Training: Evidence from the NLSY
• Gross Job Flows over the Past Two Business Cycles: Not all 'Recoveries' are Created Equal
• Higher Moments in Perturbation Solution of the Linear-Quadratic Exponential Gaussian Optimal Control Problem
• Household Spending Patterns: A Comparison of Four Census Regions
• How Does Household Production Affect Earnings Inequality? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
• How Much Do Employers Learn from Referrals?
• Improvement to the Food at Home, Shelter, and Prescription Drug Indexes in the U.S. Consumer Price Index
• Improving the CPI's Age-Bias Adjustment: Leverage, Disaggregation and Model Averaging
• Imputation and Price Indexes: Theory and Evidence from the International Price Program
• Income Imputation and the Analysis of Expenditure Data in the Consumer Expenditure Survey
• Incorporating Observed Choice into the Construction of Welfare Measures from Random Utility Models
• Industry Competition and Total Factor Productivity Growth
• Inflation and Establishment Turnover
• Interarea Price Comparisons for Heterogeneous Goods and Several Levels of Commodity Aggregation
• Is Adverse Selection Simply Moral Hazard? Evidence from the 1987 Medical Expenditure Survey
• Is Job Enrichment Really Enriching?
• Job Flows and the Recent Business Cycle: Not All 'Recoveries' Are Created Equal
• Maternal Employment and Adolescent Risky Behavior
• Measuring Job Flows and the Life Cycle of Establishments With BLS Longitudinal Establishment Microdata
• Minimum Wages, Employment and Monopsonistic Competition
• Modeling Consumer Demand for a Large Set of Quality Differentiated Goods: Estimation and Welfare Results from a Systems Approach
• Network of Tinkerers: A Model of Open-Source Technology Innovation
• Nondurables and Services Responsiveness in a Nonlinear Model: More Evidence of Binding Borrowing Constraints
• Occupation-Specific Human Capital and Local Labor Markets
• On the Estimation of Classical Human Capital Wage Equations with Two Independent Sources of Data on Actual Work Experience
• Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students
• Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students
• Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students
• Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students
• Personal Assessments of Minimum Income and Expenses: What Do They Tell Us about 'Minimum Living' Thresholds and Equivalence Scales?
• Price Dispersion and Cost-of-Living Indexes
• Principal-Agent Models of CEO Pay-For-Performance Relationships
• Proposed Category System for 1960-2000 Census Occupations
• Quality Adjusted Price Indexes for Four Year Colleges
• R&D and Productivity Growth: A Review of the Literature
• Random Errors and Superlative Indexes
• Recent Trends in Job Stability and Job Security
• Reexamining the Returns to Training: Functional Form, Magnitude, and Interpretation
• Reexamining the Returns to Training: Functional Form, Magnitude, and Interpretation
• Returning to the Returns to Computer Use
• Small Sample Bias in Geometric Mean and Seasoned CPI Component Indexes
• Some Explanations for Changes in the Distribution of Household Income in Slovakia: 1988 and 1996
• Some New Evidence on Overtime Use, Total Job Compensation, and Wage Rates
• Studying the Labor Market with the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey
• Supervisory Status and Upper-level Supervisory Responsibilities: Evidence from the NLSY79
• The Behavior of Intrafirm Trade Prices in U.S. International Price Data
• The CPS After the Redesign: Refocusing the Economic Lens
• The Contribution of Establishment Births and Deaths To Employment Growth
• The Distribution of Decision Rights Within the Workplace: Evidence from Canadian, Australian and UK Establishments
• The Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the Labor Market Outcomes of Evacuees
• The Effect of Transfer Programs on Personal Bankruptcy
• The Effects of Mergers in Open Auction Markets
• The Effects of Rounding on the Consumer Price Index
• The Impact of Worker and Establishment-level Characteristics on Male-Female Wage Differentials: Evidence from Danish Matched Employee-Employer Data
• The Implications of Flexible Security
• The Influence of Demographics and Household Specific Price Indices on Consumption Based Inequality and Welfare: A Comparison of Spain and the United States
• The Measurement of Productive Capital Stock, Capital Wealth, and Capital Services
• The Minimum Wage and the Job Package
• The Puzzling Divergence of U.S. Rents and User Costs, 1980-2004: Summary and Extensions
• The Strength of Occupation Indicators as a Proxy for Skill
• The Used Car Price Index: A Checkup and Suggested Repairs
• Tracking the Returns to Education in the Nineties: Bridging the Gap Between the New and Old CPS Education Items
• Training, Wages, and the Human Capital Model
• Transfer Pricing, Intrafirm Trade and the BLS International Price Program
• Turbulence, Inequality, and Cheap Steel
• U. S. Public Infrastructure and Its Contribution to Private Sector Productivity
• Using Hedonic Methods for Quality Adjustment in the CPI: The Consumer Audio Products Component
• Wage Adjustment in Local Labor Markets: Do the Wage Rates in All Industries Adjust?
• Wage Compression and the Division of Returns to Productivity Growth: Evidence from EOPP
• Wage Growth in the ECI and Across-Group Inequality
• What Do Male Nonworkers Do?
• What is a Promotion?
• Which Workers Gain Upon Adopting a Computer?
• Which Workers Gain from Computer Use?
• Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?
• Women's Increasing Wage Penalties from Being Overweight and Obese
• Workplace Organization and Innovation

CP

• A Comparison of Nonparametric Methods With Parametric Methods for the CPS CATI/CAPI Mode Effects Analysis
• Comparisons Of Labor Force Estimates From The Parallel Survey And The CPS During 1993: Major Labor Force Estimates
• Composite Weights for the Current Population Survey
• Cultural Factors Affecting Within Household Coverage and Proxy Reporting In Hispanic (Salvadoran) Households. A Pilot Study
• Designing an Instrument For Computer-Assisted Data Collection in the Current Population Survey
• Determining Which Questions Are Best: Methodologies for Evaluating Survey Questions
• Effect of Design Differences Between the Parallel Survey and the New CPS
• Effects of Methodological Change in the Current Population Survey
• Evaluating Interviewer Style for Collecting Industry and Occupation Information
• Logistic Regression Analysis of CPS Overlap Survey Split Panel Data
• Measurement of Different Design Effects
• Methodologies for Evaluating Survey Questions: Some Lessons from the Redesign of the Current Population Survey
• Mode Effects Analysis of Major Labor Force Estimates
• Predicting the National unemployment rate that the old CPS would have produced
• Redesigning A Questionnaire For Computer-Assisted Data Collection: The Current Population Survey Experience
• Results From the Current Population Survey CATI Phase-In Project
• The Spanish Translation Of The Redesigned Current Population Survey - Lessons Learned
• The Use of Interviewer Debriefings to Identify Problematic Questions on Alternate Questionnaires
• Touch-Tone Data Entry For Household Surveys: Research Findings And Possible Applications
• Two-Sample McNemar Tests for Complex Survey Data
• Use Of Administrative Records In The Bureau Of Labor Statistics' Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (ES-202) Program
• What Would the Unemployment Rate Have Been Had the Redesigned Current Population Survey Been in Place from September 1992 to December 1993 ?

Challenging Issues

• Application of Sequential Design and Testing Methods and Adaptive Sampling Methods to the Design and Evaluation of Usability Tests
• Challenging Research Issues in Statistics and Survey Methodology at the BLS
• Mixed-Mode Survey Design. What Are the Effects on Data Quality?
• Modeling, Estimation and Inference Issues that Arise from the Use of Response-Rate Goals in Survey Operations
• Stability of Linearization-Based Variance Estimators Computed from Potentially Unstable Estimators of First Derivatives
• The Pros and Cons of Questions Containing Cue Lists

Papers

• A Heuristic Evaluation of a World Wide Web Prototype
• A Shaker Approach to Web Site Design
• Evaluating Web Site Structure: A Set of Techniques
• Literature at the Human-Computer Seam
• Usability Testing Web Sites at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Usability Testing of World Wide Web Sites

Last Modified Date: July 19, 2008