Abstract
Karen L. Goldenberg, Shail Butani, and Polly Phipps (1993) "Response Analysis Surveys for
Assessing Response Errors in Establishment Surveys,"
Proceedings of the International Conference on Establishment
Surveys, American Statistical Association, forthcoming.
Research on survey response errors has generally been
based on data from household surveys. While establishment
surveys are subject to many of the same errors, the two types
of surveys differ in the type of data requested and the
respondent role in providing those data, leading to errors
that are unique to establishment surveys. In this paper, we
identify and evaluate response errors in mail surveys of
establishments, using data from five Response Analysis
Surveys (RAS) conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics. The RAS studies assess the availability of data
in the establishment's information system, compatibility of
those data with survey definitions, respondent understanding
of the questions and instructions, and respondent adherence
to survey definitions in providing data. While most of the
errors identified relate to respondent comprehension, others
are directly associated with the content or structure of data
in the information system.
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