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2007

Title Author(s)
Alternative Allocation Designs for a Highly Stratified Establishment Surveys Ernest Lawley, Marie Stetster, and Eduardas Valaitis
Methodologies for Estimating Mean Wages for Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Data Mallika Kasturirangan, Shail Butani, and Tamara S. Zimmerman

2006

Title Author(s)
Comparison between Newly Proposed Response Rates and Current Response Rates for the TPOP Survey Fred Marsh III
Is a User-Friendly Diary More Effective? Measuring the Effects on Data Collection Nhien To and Lucilla Tan
Evaluation of X-11 and Model-based Seasonal Adjustment Methods for U.S. Economic Time Series Stuart Scott
A Spatial Analysis of Price Change in CPI Housing Index William Larson
Comparison of Chained CPI-U and Regular CPI-U All-U.S. Indexes in the Housing Sector (2000—2004) Owen Shoemaker
Estimating Missing Prices in Producer Price Index Onimissi Sheidu
Effect of Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey Moon Jung Cho and Carolyn Pickering
Improving the Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey Darrell Greene
Evaluating a Calibration Weighting Scheme for Elementary Indexes for Commodities and Services in the U.S. Consumer Price Index Sylvia G. Leaver, Robert A. Cage, and Darin T. Solk
Variance Estimation for Noise Components in Time Series from a Survey Daniell Toth and Stuart Scott
Identifying and Accounting for Mergers and Acquisitions in Measuring Employment Gordon Mikkelson, Linda Unger, Doreen LeBel
Analysis of Recall Effect on the Reporting of Expenditures for the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey Barry Steinberg, Boriana Chopova, Lucilla Tan, Jared Ogden, Pierre Bahizi, Geoffrey Paulin
Longitudinal Microdata Outlier Detection Techniques Eric Simants
Evaluation of the Detectability and Inferential Impact of Nonresponse Bias in Establishment Surveys Randall Powers, John Eltinge, and Moon Jung Cho
Improved Preliminary Estimation of Total Employment Change for the U.S. Current Employment Statistics Survey Bogong Li and Partha Lahiri
Study of Volatility and Smoothing of Estimated Variances in the Employment Cost Index Program Meghan S. O’Malley, Daniell Toth, and Chester Ponikowski
A Comparison on Data Utility between Publishing Fixed Intervals versus Traditional Cell Suppression on Tabular Employment Data Steve H. Cohen and Bogong Li
Iteration of Second-Stage and Composite Procedures in the Current Population Survey Samantha Cruz, Edwin Robison, and Tamara S. Zimmerman
Estimating Dynamic Price Indexes Alan Dorfman and Mary Kokoski
The Use of Geocoding to Locate Outlets Outside of Sample Area Boundaries to Determine Significant Areas of Commerce John Schilp and Fred Marsh III
Using Survival Analysis To Predict Sample Retention Rates Andy Sadler and Larry Lang
Use of Administrative Data To Explore Effect of Establishment Nonresponse Adjustment on the National Compensation Survey Estimates Chester Ponikowski and Erin E. McNulty
Establishment Survival Using the BLS Longitudinal Database Merissa Piazza and Amy Knaup
Effects of Incentives in the U.S. Consumer Expenditures Quarterly Survey David McGrath
A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Size Class Methodologies and Employment Changes- March 1993-March 2003 Shail Butani, George Werking, Vinod Kapani, and Paul Grden
Model-Based Labor Force estimates for Sub-National Areas with large Survey Errors Richard Tiller

2005

Title Author(s)
An Evaluation of Different Design Options for Presenting Edit Messages in Web Forms William Mockovak
Estimating the Level of Underreporting of Expenditures among Expenditure Reporters: A Micro-level Latent Class Analysis Clyde Tucker, Brian Meekins and Paul Biemer
Optimal Pairing for Stratum Collapse Methods with Interviewer-Level Measurement Error Shared Across Strata Moon Jung Cho and John Eltinge
Weighting Scheme Comparison in the International Price Program in Web Forms Patrick Bobbitt, Moon J. Cho and Robert M. Eddy
The Effect of Attrition on Variance and Index Estimates in the Housing Component of the Consumer Price Index William Larson
Comparison between Chained CPI-U and Regular CPI-U: All-U.S. Indexes at Lower Item-aggregate Levels (2000—2003) Owen Shoemaker
Business Register Quality Metrics Sheryl Konigsberg, David Talan and Richard Clayton
Comparison of Item Nonresponse and Unit Nonresponse in Household Surveys John S. Dixon
Pre-testing Sensitive Questions: Perceived Sensitivity, Comprehension, and Order Effects of Questions about Income and Weight Margaret Vernon
Variance Measures for X-11 Seasonal Adjustment: A Summing Up of Empirical Research Stuart Scott, Michael Sverchkov and Daniel Pfeffermann
An On Nonresponse Adjustment via Calibration Michail Sverchkov, Alan Dorfman, Lawrence R. Ernst, Thomas Moerhle, Steven P. Paben, and Chester H. Ponikowski
Geocoding Procedure To find Geographic Identifiers in the Housing Component of the Consumer Price Index John Schlip
Phase-in of the Redesigned National Compensation Survey Area Sample Jason Tehonica, Lawrence R. Ernst and Chester H. Ponikowski
Update on the Redesign of the National Compensation Survey Yoel Itzsak, Lawrence R. Ernst, Erin McNulty, Steven P. Paben, Chester H. Ponikowski, Glenn Springer, and Jason Tehonica
Historical Reconstruction of Employment Time Series for Metropolitan Areas in the Current Employment Statistics Program Brian Dahlin and Molly Garber
Reducing Sample Sizes in the National Compensation Survey in Response to Budget Cuts Christopher Guciardo, Lawrence R. Ernst, Gwyn R. Ferguson, Yoel Izsak, and Erin McNulty
Estimation of the Change in Total Employment Using the U.S. Current Employment Statistics Survey Bogong Li and Partha Lahiri
Developing Poverty Thresholds Thesia I. Garner
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 Terence M. McMenamin, Douglas L. Kruse, Tom Hale and Haejin Kim
Handling Program Constraints in the Sample Design for the Commodities and Services Component of the U.S. Consumer Price Index Sylvia G.Leaver, and Darin T. Solk
Cognitive Testing of New Forms for the Current Employment Statistics Survey Kathy Downey, Karen Goldenberg, Rick Rosen, Tony Gomes, and Chris Manning
Efficacy of Prenotification Letters in Improving Response Rates in the Telephone Point of Purchase Survey Cassandra Yocum
Optimizing Call Time Lags by Modeling the Probability of Call Outcomes Brian Meekins, Roberta Sangster and John F. Meekins
Alternative Sample Allocations for the U.S. Current Employment Statistics Survey Gregory Erkens, Larry L. Huff, and Julie B. Gershunskaya
Developing Annual Estimates of Hires and Separations Brady Stephens, and Kim Riley
Variance Estimation for Small Domains Julie B. Gershunskaya and Partha Lahiri
A Comparison for the Business Registers Used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau Lucia Foster, Joel Elvery Randy Becker, Cornell Krizan, Sang Nguyen and David Talan
Methods of Surveying All Households with Telephone Service J. Michael Brick, Sarah Dipko, Stanley Presser, Clyde Tucker, Angela Yuan
Analytical Bias Reduction for Small Samples in the U.S. Consumer Price Index Ralph Bradley
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 Terence M. McMenamin, Thomas W. Hale, Haejin Kim, and Douglas Kruse
Evaluating Estimates of Labor Demand and Turnover Charlotte Mueller and John Wohlford

2004

Title Author(s)
A Proposed Estimation Procedure for CPS Gross Flows Edwin L. Robison and Martha Duff
Use of Overlap Maximization in the Redesign of the National Compensation Survey Steven P. Paben, Lawrence R. Ernst, and Yoel Izsak
A Method of Reconciling Discrepant National and Subnational Employment and Unemployment Estimates Swamy A.V.B. Paravastu, Jatinder S. Mehta, and I-Lok Chang
Modeling of Survey Response Rates and Reporting Rates in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Interview Moon J. Cho and John L. Eltinge
Analysis of Divergence between Chained CPI-U and Regular CPI-U for the All_US-All_Items Indexes (2000-2002 Owen J. Shoemaker
Characteristics of Survival: Longevity of Business Establishments in the Business Employment Dynamics Data Amy Knaup
Estimating the Level of Underreporting of Expenditures among Expenditure Reporters: A Microlevel Latent Class Analysis Clyde Tucker, Paul P. Biemer, Brian J. Meekins, and Jennifer Shields
Predicting Wave Nonresponse from Prior Wave Data Quality Brian J. Meekins and Roberta L. Sangster
Modeling the Likelihood of Interviews and Refusals: Using Call History Data to Improve Efficiency of Effort in a National RDD Survey Roberta L. Sangster and Brian J. Meekins
Use of an Audit Program to Improve Confidentiality Protection of Tabular Data at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Randall Powers and Stephen Cohen
Variance Measures for Seasonally Adjusted Employment and Employment Change Stuart Scott, Danny Pfeffermann, and Michael Sverchkov
Zero-calibrated Variance Estimators Alan H. Dorfman, Lawrence R. Ernst, Christopher J. Guciardo, and Michael Sverchkov
Household Telephone Service and Usage Patterns in the United States in 2004: A Demographic Profile David Morganstein, Clyde Tucker, J. Michael Brick, James Esposito, and Brian J. Meekins
Response Analysis Survey: A Qualitative look at Response and Nonresponse in the American Time Use Survey Grace O'Neill and Jessica Sincavage
Temporal Patterns of Survey Response Rates and Reporting Rates in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Interview and Other Panel Surveys Moon J. Cho, John L. Eltinge, and Barry P. Steinberg
Standards for Statistical Surveys for Producing and Disseminating Survey Estimates in the U.S. Statistical System Kevin Cecco and Stephen Cohen
Converting CES Reporters From TDR to Web Data Collection Richard Rosen and Tony Gomes
Outlier Detection and Treatment in the Current Employment Statistics Survey Julie B. Gershunskaya and Larry Huff
Testing a New Response Mode For an Establishment Survey: Reporting Response Rates in a Pilot Study of Touchtone Response Karen Goldenberg
The Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey: What Initial Data Show Kelly A. Clark
A New Variance Estimator for a Two-phased Restratified Sample with PPS Sampling at Both Phases Suojin Wang, Alan H. Dorfman, and Lawrence R Ernst
Temporal Patterns of Survey Response Rates and Reporting Rates in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Interview and Other Panel Surveys Moon Jung Cho and John L. Eltinge
Variance Estimation for the National Compensation Survey When PSUs are Clustered Prior to the Second Phase of Sampling Christopher J. Guciardo, Alan H. Dorfman, Lawrence R. Ernst, and Michail Sverchkov
Evaluation of Proposed County-Level Interval Publication of ES-202 Employment Data Timothy Li

2003

Title Author(s)
Inferential Methods to Identify Possible Interviewer Fraud Using Leading Digit Preference Patterns and Design Effect Matrices Moon Jung Cho, John L. Eltinge, and David Swanson
Detecting Possibly Fraudulent or Error-Prone Survey Data Using Benford’s Law David Swanson, Moon Jung Cho, and John L. Eltinge
Estimating Components of Variance of Price Change from a Scanner-Based Sample Sylvia G. Leaver, Cho, and David Larsen
A Simulation Comparison Between Alternative Outlier Resistant Ratio Estimators Bogong Li
Is a User-Friendly Diary More Effective? Findings from a Field Test Eric Figueroa, Jeanette Davis, Sally E. Reyes-Morales, Nhien To, and Lucilla Tan
Measurement Differences in Key Economic Indicators Karen L. Goldenberg, and Diane K. Willimack
Redesign of the National Compensation Survey Yoel Izsak, Lawrence R. Ernst, Chester H. Ponikowski, Steven P. Paben, and Jason Tehonica
Reconciling Labor Turnover and Employment Statistics John C. Wohlford, Mary Anne Phillips, Richard L. Clayton, and George S. Werking
Evaluation of CPS National Variances Tamara Zimmerman
Sample Expansion for Probability Proportional to Size without Replacement Sampling Lawrence Ernst
Web Collection in the Covered Employment and Wages Program Michael A. Searson
Estimation and Comparison of Chained CPI-U Standard Errors With Regular CPI-U Results (2000-2001) Owen Shoemaker
Economic Well-Being Based on Consumer Expenditures and Personal Assessments of Minimum Income and Minimum Spending Thesia Garner
Imputation of Benefit Related Data for the National Compensation Survey Steven Paben, James Buszuwski, Daniel Elmore, Lawrence Ernst, Michael Lettau, Lowell Mason, and Chester Ponikowski
What an Indicator of Labor Demand Means for U.S. Labor Market Analysis: Initial Results from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey Kelly A. Clark
Reconciling Labor Turnover and Employment Statistics John Wohlford, Mary Anne Phillips, Richard Clayton, and George Werking
Correcting for Omitted Variable and Measurement-Error Bias in Autoregressive Model Estimation With Panel Data P.A.V.B. Swamy, I-Lok Chang, Jatinder S. Mehta, and George S. Tavlas
A Qualitative Approach to the Study of BLS Establishment Survey Nonresponse Jean Fox, Sylvia Fisher, Clyde Tucker, Roberta Sangster, and Christine Rho
Imputation of Benefit Related Data for the National Compensation Survey James A. Buszuwski, Daniel J. Elmore, Lawrence R. Ernst, Michael K. Lettau, Lowell G. Mason, Steven P. Paben, and Chester H. Ponikowski
A Graphical Method for Assessing the Results of Fuzzy Clustering Patrick Bobbitt
Conceptual and Practical Issues in the Statistical Design and Analysis of Usability Tests John Bosley, John Eltinge, Jean Fox, and Scott Fricker
Assessing the Usefulness and Usability of Online Learning Activities: MapStats for Kids Sven Fuhrman, John Bosley, Bonan Li, Stephen Crawford, Alan MacEachren, Roger Downs, and Mark Gahegan
A Qualitative Study of Nonresponse Factors Affecting BLS Establishment Surveys: Results Sylvia Fisher, John Bosley, Karen Goldenberg, William Mockovak, and Clyde Tucker
Editing Strategies Used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in Data Collection over the Internet Stephen H. Cohen
Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Federal-State Cooperative Programs of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Stephen H. Cohen
How Much Can you Trust the Answers You Get Using Cognitive Interviews? Christine Rho and Roberta L. Sangster
The Variance of the Variance of Samples From a Finite Population Eungchun Cho, Moon Jung Cho and John Eltinge
Do Current Methods Used to Improve Response to Telephone Surveys Reduce Nonresponse Bias? Roberta L. Sangster
On Small Area Estimation under Informative Sampling Danny Pfeffermann and Michael Sverchkov
Survey Response Measurement at the Bureau of Labor Statistic Gwyn R. Ferguson, Stephen H. Cohen, Richard J. Rosen
Usability Issues Associated with Converting Establishment Surveys to Web-Based Data Collection Jean Fox, William Mockovak, Christine Rho, and Sylvia Fisher
Survey Data Collection Using Complex Automated Questionnaires William Mockovak
Redesigned Current Population Survey Raking Edwin Robison and Martha Duff

2002

Title Author(s)
Web Data Collection at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: An Organizational View Michael D. Levi and Richard Fecher
Co-Evolution of Research and Practice: The BLS and Fedstats Case Gary Marchionini, Michael Levi, and Stephanie Haas
The Impact of Prompting on Response Rates: Experience with Touchtone Reporting in the CES Program Tony Gomes, Ralf Hertwig, and Rick Rosen
Determining Within-PSU Sample Sizes for the Consumer Expenditure Survey Sylvia Johnson-Herring, Sharon Krieger, and David Swanson
Automation Strategies for the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) Program Michael Searson
A Note on the Effects of Extreme Price Values on Price Indexes Janice Lent
Accounting for Business Births and Deaths in CES: Bias vs. Net Birth/Death Modeling Jurgen Kropf, Sharon Strifas, and Monica Traetow
A Comparison of Job Openings Surveys: Concepts and Survey Design Kelly Clark and MaryAnne Phillips
Concurrent Seasonal Adjustment for Industry Employment Statistics Jurgen Kropf, Christopher Manning, Kirk Mueller, and Stuart Scott
Exploratory Analysis of Generalized Variance Function Models for the U.S. Current Employment Survey John Eltinge, Julie Gershunskaya, and Larry Huff
Use of Auxiliary Information to Evaluate a Synthetic Estimator John Eltinge, Julie Gershunskaya, and Larry Huff
Allocating Sample to Strata Proportional to Aggregate Measure of Size with Both Upper and Lower Bounds on the Number of Units in Each Stratum Larry Ernst and Christopher Guciardo
Sample Allocation and Selection for the National Compensation Survey Larry Ernst, Christopher Guciardo, Chester Ponikowski, and Jason Tehonica
Comparison of Variance Estimation Techniques for a Price Index with Non-Independent Weights Richard Toftness
Evaluation of Generalized Variance Function Estimators for the U.S. Current Employment Survey Moon Jung Cho, John Eltinge, Julie Gershunskaya, and Larry Huff
Assessing the Impact of Imputation on the Sampling Variance of the U.S. Consumer Price Index William Larson and Sylvia Leaver
Wassily Leontief and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1941-54 Martin Kohli
Are Survey Weights Necessary? The Maximum Likelihood Approach to Sample Survey Inference Ray Chambers, Alan Dorfman, and Suojin Wang
Estimation and Analysis of Variance Components for the Revised CPI Housing Sample Owen Shoemaker
Redesigning the Consumer Price Index Area Sample William Johnson, Yeon Rhee, and Owen Shoemaker
Annual Measures of Job Creation and Job Destruction Created from Quarterly Microdata Joshua Pinkston and James Spletzer
The Effects of Item and Unit Nonresponse on Estimates of Labor Force Participation John Dixon
Small Area Modeling Research for the Occupational Employment Survey Timothy Li
Longitudinal Analysis of Economic Impacts: A Case Study of the Rust Belt Jason Faberman
Decision Criteria For Using Automated Coding In Survey Processing Daniel Gillman
Data Confidentiality and Access Issues Among Federal Agencies Jacob Bournazian, Steve Cohen, Donna Eden, and Brian Greenberg
Recent Experiences in Survey Coordination and Sample Rotation within Monthly Business Establishment Surveys Mark Crankshaw, Laurie Kujawa, and George Stamas
Redesign of Current Population Survey Raking to Control Totals Martha Duff, Edwin Robison, Harland Shoemaker, and Brandon Schneider
Assessing the Bias Associated with Alternative Contact Strategies in Telephone Time-Use Surveys Jay Stewart
Measuring Key Economic Indicators in U.S. Government Establishment Surveys Karen L. Goldenberg, Sylvia K. Fisher, and Diane K. Willimack, and Amy E. Anderson
New Data Collections Using Touchtone Data Entry Sudarshan Jahku and Mark Sauer
Experiences Implementing Establishment Survey Questionnaire Development and Testing at Selected U.S. Government Agencies Karen L. Goldenberg, Amy E. Anderson, Diane L. Willimack, Stanley R. Freeman, Robert H. Rutchik, and Luann M. Moy
Access to Confidential Statistical Agency Data Stephen Cohen
Data Exploration Interfaces Meaningful Web Database Mining by Non-Statisticians John J. Bosley and Kathleen A. Straub
Calling Effort and Nonresponse for Telephone Panel Surveys Roberta L. Sangster
Approaches for Incorporating User-Centered Design into CAI Development Bill Mockovak and Jean Fox
Nonparametric Regression with Complex Survey Data Raymond Chambers, Alan Dorfman, and M. Sverchkov

2001

Title Author(s)
Data Dissemination to a Web-Based Audience: Managing Usability Testing during the Development Cycle Michael D. Levi
On Survey Sample Designs for Consumer Price Indexes Alan H. Dorfman, Sylvia Leaver, Janice Lent and Edward Wegman
The Business Establishment List - Standard Statistical Establishment List Comparison Project Michael A. Searson
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey: Preparing to Publish Data for a New Survey Kelly Clark, Mary Anne Phillips, and Brady Stephens
Organization and Management of a Data Collection Center Paul Calhoun, Laura Jackson, and John Wohlford
How Do People Interpret Open-Ended Categorical Questions Scott Fricker and Monica Dashen
Diagnostics for Evaluation of Superpopulation Models for Variance Estimation Under Systematic Sampling Moon Jung Cho and John Eltinge
Relationship Between Household Nonresponse, Demographics, and Unemployment Rate in the Current Population Survey John Dixon
The Effect of Some Design and Estimation Issues on the Variance Estimates of the Employment Cost Index Steven P. Paben
Retrospective Assignment of Permanent Random Numbers for Ohlsson's Exponential Sampling Overlap Maximization Procedure for Designs with More than One Sample Unit per Stratum Lawrence Ernst
Estimating Variances in the National Compensation Survey, Using Balanced Repeated Replication Christopher Guciardo
Evaluating Numeric Rating Scales: Replicated Results Roberta Sangster and Fern Willits
Estimating Variances for a Scanner-Based Consumer Price Index Sylvia Leaver and William Larson
Estimation of Variance Components for the U.S. Consumer Price Index: A Comparative Study Owen Shoemaker
Ensuring Data Quality in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey Charlotte Mueller, Matthew Balazik, and Mark Crankshaw
Reporting Absences from Home: Results of Cognitive Testing of The American Time Use Survey's Missed Days Summary Question Scott Fricker and Lisa Schwartz
What’s Work? Respondents’ Interpretations of Work-Related Summary Questions Lisa Schwartz, Siri Lynn, and Jayme Gortman
Minding the Children: Understanding How Recall and Conceptual Interpretations Influence Responses to a Time-Use Summary Question Lisa Schwartz
Ensuring Data Quality in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey Charlotte Mueller and Matthew Balazik
Measuring Employee Hours in Government Surveys Sylvia Fisher, Karen Goldenberg, Eileen O'Brien, Clyde Tucker, and Diane Willimack
New Tools for Labor Market Analysis:JOLTS Kelly A. Clark and Rosemary Hyson
Application of Cognitive Methods to an Establishment Survey: A Demonstration Using the Current Employment Statistics Survey Eileen M. O'Brien, Sylvia Fisher, Karen L. Goldenberg, and Richard Rosen
Usability Testing of Data Access Tools John Bosley and Fred Conrad
Comparison of Outcome Codes Used for Attrition Calculations for Telephone Samples Roberta L. Sangster, Cassandra Wirth, and Charles Mason
Reporting Absences from Home: Results of Cognitive Testing of the American Time Use Survey's Missed Days Summary Question Scott Fricker and Lisa K. Schwartz

2000

Title Author(s)
Metadata Standards and Metadata Registries: An Overview Bruce E. Bargemeyer and Daniel W. Gillman
Usability Testing of Data Access Tools John J. Bosley and Frederick G. Conrad
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 Karen L. Goldenberg and Mary Anne Phillips
The Role of Metadata in Statistics Cathryn S. Dippo and Bo Sundgren
Developing a New Business Survey: Job Openings and Labor Turnover at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Charlotte Mueller and John Wohlford
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Longitudinal Establishment Database Michael Searson, Kenneth Robertson, and Richard L. Clayton
Implementing the NAICS for Business Surveys at BLS Gordon Mikkelson, Teresa L. Morisi, and George Stamas
Alternative Methods for Updating Wage Data From the Occupational Employment Statistics Survey Shail Butani, Kenneth Robertson, and George Werking
Literature at the Human-Computer Seam Michael D. Levi
Collecting All-Employee Earnings Data in the Current Employment Statistics Survey:A Comparison of Two Concepts Karen Goldenberg, Anthony Gomes, Marilyn Manser, and Jay Stewart
Measuring the Demand for Labor in the United States: The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey Kelly A. Clark and Rosemary Hyson
The Genesis of an Establishment Survey: Research and Development for the Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey at the BLS Charlotte Mueller and Mary Anne Phillips
Sample Design in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey Mark Crankshaw and George Stamas
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 Karen L. Goldenberg and Mary Anne Phillips
Developing a New Business Survey: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Charlotte Mueller and John Wohlford
Alternative Imputation Models For Wage Related Data Collected From Establishment Surveys Carl Barsky, James Buszuwski, Lawrence Ernst, Michael Lettau, Mark Loewenstein, Brooks Pierce, Chester Ponikowski, James Smith, and Sandra West
Permanent and Collected Random Number Sampling and the Coverage of Births and Deaths Lawrence R. Ernst, Richard Valliant, and Robert J. Casadyd
Adapting Usability Test Methods to Improve a Data Extraction Tool (FERRETT) John Bosley and Cavan C. Capps
A Usability Test of Fedstats, Gateway to Federal Statistics John Bosley, Catherine Gaddy, John Weiner, and Marianne Zawatz
Look Before You Click: A Relation Browser for Federal Statistics Websites Gary Marchionini, Ben Brunk, Anita Komlodi, Fred Conrad, and John Bosley

1999

Title Author(s)
Modeling the Realized Outlet Sample for the Commodities and Services Component of the U.S. Consumer Price Index William Johnson, Sylvia G. Leaver, and Thomas S. Benson
Estimation of Variance Components for the U.S. CONSUMER PRICE INDEX Owen Shoemaker and William Johnson
Data Collection Issues Related to Implementing the Redesigned Current Employment Statistics Survey Richard Rosen, Louis Harrell, Christopher Manning, and Doug Skuta
Earnings Concepts and Data Availability for the Current Employment Statistics Survey: Findings from Cognitive Interviews Karen Goldenberg and Jay Stewart
Evaluation of Composite Estimation Methods for Cost Weights in the CPI David Swanson, Sharon Hauge, and Mary Lynn Schmidt
The Maximization and Minimization of Sample Overlap Problems: A Half Century of Results Lawrence Ernst
Evaluating the Displaced Worker/Job-Tenure Supplement to the CPS: An Illustration of Multimethod Quality Assessment Research James L. Esposito
Some Observations on Price Index Estimators Alan H. Dorfman, Sylvia Leaver, and Janice Lent
Standing on the Outside, Looking In: Tapping Data Users to Compare and Review Surveys Leda Kydoniefs and Linda Stinson
Two Sides of A Single Coin?: Dimensions of Change in Different Settings Luann Moy and Linda Stinson
Measuring How People Spend Time Linda Stinson
Aggregation and Model-based Methods in Seasonal Adjustment of Labor Force Series Stuart Scott and Peter Zadrozny
A Study in the Process of Planning, Designing and Managing a Survey Program: The case of time-use surveys at the BLS Michael Horrigan and Diane Herz
Why Do We Need Time-Use Data? Mary Joyce and Jay Stewart
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 Sylvia G. Leaver, William Johnson, Owen Shoemaker, and Thomas S. Benson
Comparing Alternative Median Wage Rate Estimators for the Occupational Employment Statistics Survey Carrae Echols, Kenneth Robertson, and Albert Tou
Evaluation of Confidence Interval Estimation Methods for the National Compensation Survey Glen Springer, Alan H. Dorfman, Steven Paben, and Martha Walker
Causes and Treatments of Non-Economic Fluctuations in Average Weekly Hours and Average Hourly Earnings Series Jurgen Kropf, Patricia Getz, and Michael Roosma
Relationship Between Data Quality and Collection Date in the Consumer Price Index Housing Survey Shawn Jacobson
Recognition of More Than One Possible Trend in Time Series: Redesigned Screening of Microdata in the Current Employment Survey Sheila McConnell and William Goodman
Comparison of Variance Estimation Methods for the National Compensation Survey" Steven P. Paben
When Should We Ask Follow-up Questions About Items in Lists? John Bosley, Monica Dashen, and Jean Fox
Report on Experimental Poverty Measures: 1990 to 1997 Kathleen Short, John Iceland, Richard Bavier, Thesia Garner, Patricia Rozaklis, and Donald J. Hernandez
Verbal Reports are Data! A Theoretical Approach to Cognitive Interviews Frederick Conrad, Johnny Blair, and Elena Tracy
Conversational Interviewing and Data Quality Frederick Conrad and Michael F. Schober
Estimating the Frequency of Events from Unnatural Categories Frederick Conrad, Norman Brown, and Monica Dashen
When and How Should Survey Interviewers Clarify Question Meaning?" Michael Schober, Frederick G. Conrad, and Scott S. Fricker
Using the American Community Survey to Enhance the Current Population Survey: Opportunities and Issues Shail Butani, Charles Alexander, and James Esposito
Evaluation of Confidence Interval Methodology for the National Compensation Survey Glen Springer, Martha Walker, Steven Paben, and Alan Dorfman
Deeply Discounted Usability Test of a Survey Data Extraction Tool John Bosley and Cavan C. Capps
Sampling and Reporting in Time Use Surveys Edwin Robison

1998

Title Author(s)
Selecting the Employment Cost Index Survey Sample as a Subsample of the National Compensation Survey Lawrence E. Ernst and Chester R. Ponikowski
Permanent and Collocated Random Number Sampling and the Coverage of Births and Deaths Lawrence R. Ernst, Richard Valliant, and Robert J. Casady
Estimating Price Relatives for the U.S. Consumer Price Index When Priced Items are Restratified Mary Lee Fuxa
Comparing Current Population Survey Estimates Computed Using Different Composite Estimators Janice Lent, Stephen Miller, Martha Duff, and Patrick Cantwell
Choosing a Variance Computation Method for the Revised Consumer Price Index Shawn Jacobson, Sylvia G. Leaver, and David Swanson
A Summary of Quality-Assessment Research Conducted on the 1996 Displaced-Worker/Job-Tenure/Occupational-Mobility Supplement J.L. Esposito and Sylvia Fisher
Assigning Permanent Random Number to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Longitudinal (Universe) Data Base Shail Butani, Kenneth W. Robertson, and Kirk Mueller
The Reinterview Program for the BLS Compensation Surveys Steven P. Paben
Maximizing and Minimizing Overlap When Selecting a Large Number of Units per Stratum Simultaneously for Two Designs Lawrence R. Ernst
Estimating Price Relatives for the U.S. Consumer Price Index When Priced Items are Restratified Mary Lee Fuxa
Cognitive Issues Associated with Collecting Cash Contributions in the Consumer Expenditure Survey John Bosley and Sylvia Fisher

1997

Title Author(s)
Stratification by Size Revisited Alan Dorfman and Richard Valliant
An Application Of Mathematical Programming To Sample Allocation Richard Valliant and James E. Gentle
Implementation of the Current Employment Statistics Redesign: Data Collection Richard Clayton
The National Compensation Survey: The New BLS Integrated Compensation Program Stephen Cohen
Estimators for Average Hourly Earnings and Average Weekly Hours for the Current Employment Statistics Survey Sandra West, Tran Kratzke, and Paul Grden
Maximizing and Minimizing Overlap when Selecting a Large Number of Units Per Stratum Simultaneously for Two Designs Lawrence R. Ernst
Evaluating Web Site Structure: A Set of Techniques K. Frederickson-Mele, Michael D. Levi, and Frederick G. Conrad
Evaluating the 1995 BLS Labor Force Projections Howard N. Fullerton
Procedures for Reducing Measurement Error in Establishment Surveys Karen Goldenberg, Kerry Levin, Tracey Hagerty, Ted Shen, and David Cantor
Measuring Employment From Birth And Deaths In The Current Employment Statistics Surveye Diem Kratzke, Heidi Shierholz, and Steve Woodruff
Estimating the Sampling Variance for Alternative Estimators of the U.S. Consumer Price Index Sylvia G. Leaver and Robert A. Cage
A Shaker Approach to Web Site Design Michael D. Levi
Usability Testing Web Sites at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Michael D. Levi
Developing an Integrated System for Mixed Mode Data Collection in a Large Monthly Establishment Survey Richard J. Rosen
Quality of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Business Establishment List as a Sampling Frame Michael A. Searson
Performance Comparisons of Laspeyres Indexes with Geometric Mean Indexes in the U.S. Consumer Price Index Owen J. Shoemaker
Longitudinal Establishment Microdata at the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Development, Uses, and Access James Spletzer
Sampling for Employment at New Establishments in a Monthly Business Survey George Stamas, Karen Goldenberg, Kerry Levin, and David Canto
Estimates of Year-to-Year Change in Costs Per Hour Worked From the Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Survey Martha Walker
Overview of the CES Redesign George S. Werking
Sample Design And Estimation For The National Compensation Survey Susan R. Black, Lawrence R. Ernst, and Jason Tehonica
Sample Design And Estimation For The National Compensation Survey Susan R. Black, Lawrence R. Ernst, and Jason Tehonica
Adjusting Establishment Selection Probabilities And Number Of Occupational Selections To Reduce Variances In BLS Compensation Surveys Steven P. Paben and Lawrence R. Ernst
Estimation Procedures for the Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Statistics Program Shail Butani, Rachel Harter, and Kirk Wolter
Sample Redesign for the Current Employment Statistics Survey Shail Butani, George Stamas, and Michael Brick
Who Lives Here? Survey Undercoverage and Household Roster Questions Roger Tourangeau, Gary Shapiro, Ann Kearney, and Lawrence Ernst
The National Compensation Survey: The New BLS Integrated Compensation Program Stephen H. Cohen

1996

Title Author(s)
Using Expert Systems To Model And Improve Survey Classification Processes Frederick G. Conrad
From Impressions To Data: Increasing The Objectivity Of Cognitive Interviews Frederick Conrad and Johnny Blair
How Interviewers' Conversational Flexibility Affects the Accuracy of Survey Data Frederick Conrad and Michael Schober
Subjective Assessments of Economic Well-Being and Preliminary Findings from Miami Thesia Garner, Linda Stinson, and Stephanie Shipp
Affordability, Income Adequacy, and Subjective Assessments of Economic Well-Being: Preliminary Findings Thesia Garner, Linda Stinson, and Stephanie Shipp
Using Cognitive Testing in the Design of a Business Survey Questionnaire Karen L. Goldenberg
The Occupational Safety And Health Survey: Instrument Redesign Leda Kydoniefs
Usability Testing of World Wide Web Sites Michael D. Levi and Frederick G. Conrad
A Heuristic Evaluation of a World Wide Web Prototype Michael D. Levi and Frederick G. Conrad
Transmission of Producer Prices Through Stages of Processing Tae-Hwy Lee and Stuart Scott
Adjusting for A Calendar Effect in Employment Time Series Stephanie Cano, Patricia Getz, Jurgen Kropf, Stuart Scott, and George Stamas
Overview Of Data Editing Procedures In Surveys Administered By The Bureau Of Labor Statistics: Procedures And Implications Linda L. Stinson and Sylvia Kay Fisher
Predicting Births In The Current Employment Statistics Survey Steve Woodruff
Federal Government Shutdown: Options for CPS Data Collection Shail Butani, Lawrence Cahoon, and Brian Kojetin
Maximizing the Overlap of Sample Units for Two Designs with Simultaneous Selection Lawrence R. Ernst
Multiple Workloads per Stratum Designs Lynn Weidman and Lawrence R. Ernst

1995

Title Author(s)
Sampling Weights For The Housing Sample Of The Consumer Price Index Eugene F. Brown
The Effects Of Advance Letters And Reminder/Thank You Letters On Reducing Nonresponse In An Establishment Survey: An Experimental Study Young I. Chun and Kenneth W. Robertson
Using E-Mail/World Wide Web For Establishment Survey Data Collection Richard L. Clayton and George S.Werking
Researcher Access To Confidential Microdata At The Bureau Of Labor Statistics Virginia A. de Wolf
Maximizing the Overlap of Sample Units for Two Designs with Simultaneous Selection Lawrence R. Ernst
Evaluating Survey Data: Making The Transition From Pretesting to Quality Assessment James Esposito and J.M. Rothgeb
Evaluation Of Confidence Interval Methodology For The Occupational Compensation Survey Program Christina L. Harpenau, Joan Coleman, and Mark Lincoln
A Comparison Of Estimators For The Mean Of A Finite Population, Based On A Systematic Sample Larry Huff, Diem-Tran Kratzke, Gordon Mikkelson, and Sandra West
An Application Of Regression And Calibration Estimation To Post-Stratification In A Household Survey Bodhini Jayasuriya and Richard Valliant
Trends In Inequality Using Consumer Expenditures: 1960 To 1993 David Johnson and Stephanie Shipp
Measuring Customer Service At The Bureau Of Labor Statistics Catherine M. Kazanowski
An Evaluation Of Alternative Imputation Methods Jill M. Montaquila and Chester H. Ponikowski
Nonresponse Adjustment In Certainty Strata For An Establishment Survey Kirk Mueller, George Stamas, and Shail Butani
An Examination Of Spending Patterns Of Families Receiving Forms Of Public Assistance William D. Passero
Health Insurance Coverage For Families With Children: Findings From The Consumer Expenditure Survey Geoffrey D. Paulin and Elizabeth M. Dietz
The Effects Of Health Insurance Status On Consumer Spending Geoffrey D. Paulin and Wolf D. Weber
A Study Of Donor Pools and Imputation Methods For Missing Employment Data Ken Robertson, Larry Huff, and Albert Tou
D.C. Graph: Software For Converting Tables To Graphs Via A Simple, Easy To Use Interface Daniel J. Rope and D.B. Carr
Comparing Market Basket Changes and the CPI Mary Lynn Schmidt
Improved Timeliness Of Geographic Data Through Automation Of The Current Employment Statistics Program Kenneth Shipp
The Research Agenda On Issues Surrounding The Definition Of Racial And Ethnic Categories Clyde Tucker
Limitations of Balanced Half Sampling Richard Valliant
Maximizing and Minimizing Overlap of Ultimate Sampling Units Lawrence R. Ernst
Respondent Motivation, Response Burden, and Data Quality in the Survey of Employer-Provided Training James Kennedy and Polly A. Phipps

1994

Title Author(s)
Measurement Of Different Design Effects Shail Butani, Lawrence Cahoon, Robert E. Fay, and Donna Kostanich
Confidence Intervals for Sub-Domain Parameters When the Sub-Domain Sample Size is Random Robert J. Casady, Alan H. Dorfman, and Suojin Wang
The Reliability of the Locality Pay Estimates Joan Coleman and Penny James
Strategies for Estimating Category Frequency: Effects of Abstractness and Distinctiveness Frederick G. Conrad and Norman R. Brown
A Multiple Strategy Perspective on Behavioral and Laboratory Frequency Estimation Frederick G. Conrad and Norman R. Brown
The Utility and Flexibility of Behavior Coding as a Method for Evaluating Questionnaires J.L. Esposito, J.M. Rothgeb, and P.C. Campanelli
A Response Model for the International Price Program Gwyn R. Ferguson and Tamara M. Ciapponi
Answering Questions, Questioning Answers: Evaluating Data Quality in an Establishment Survey Karen L. Goldenberg
Commercial Payroll Software and the Quality of Employment Data Karen L. Goldenberg, Susan E. Moore, and Richard J. Rosen
Seasonal Adjustment Of Hybrid Economic Time Series Stuart Scott, George Stamas, Thomas Sullivan, and Paul Chester
Establishment Surveys: Designing The Survey Operations Of The Future George S. Werking
Variance Estimators For Variables That Have Both Observed And Imputed Values Sandra A. West, Diem-Tran Kratzke, and Kenneth W. Robertson
One Way To Build An Estimator, With Applications To Sampling Theory Steve Woodruff
Apportionment Methods for the House of Representatives and the Court Challenge Lawrence R. Ernst
A Response Model For the International Price Program Gwyn R. Ferguson and Tamara M. Ciapponi
Translating a Telephone Survey on Alcohol and Drug Use: Processes and Lessons Learned Roberta L. Sangster

1993

Title Author(s)
Some Issues in Seasonal Adjustment When Modeling Interventions James A. Busuwski and Stuart Scott
Conditional Properties of Post-Stratified Estimators Under Normal Theory Robert J. Casady and Richard Valliant
Stratified Telephone Survey Designs Robert J. Casady and James M. Lepkowski
How the Memorability of Events Affects Frequency Judgments Frederick G. Conrad, Norman, R. Brown, and Erin R. Cashman
An Expert System for Reviewing Commodity Substitutions in the Consumer Price Index F. Conrad, R. Kamalich, J. Longacre, and D. Barry
Response Analysis Surveys for Assessing Response Errors in Establishment Surveys Karen L. Goldenberg, Shail Butani, and Polly Phipps
Distributions and Transformations for Family Expenditures Stuart Scott and Daniel J. Rope
Post Stratification and Conditional Variance Estimation Richard Valliant
Alternative Imputation Procedures For Item Non-response from New Establishments in the Universe Sandra A. West, Diem-Tran Kratzke, and Ken Robertson
The Challenge Of Redesigning The Consumer Price Index Area Sample Janet L. Williams, Eugene F. Brown, and Gary R. Zion

1992

Title Author(s)
An Extended Review of the X11ARIMA Seasonal Adjustment Package Stuart Scott
The Allocation of Sample Size In Stratified Telephone Sample Designs Clyde Tucker, Robert Casady, and James Lepkowski
Smoothing Variance Estimates for Price Indexes Over Time Richard Valliant
Alternative Models for the Distribution of Earnings by Occupation Sandra A. West, Diem-Tran Kratzke, and Shail Butani
Assessing Measurement Errors in a Touchtone Recognition Survey Polly A.Phipps, Alan R. Tupek
Designing Establishment Survey Questionnaires Polly A. Phipps, Shail Butani, and Young I. Chun

1991

Title Author(s)
Optimal Allocation For Stratified Telephone Survey Designs Robert J. Casady and James M. Lepkowski
A General Model of the Survey Interaction Process J.L Esposito and J.B. Jobe
Polly A. Phipps, Kenneth W. Robertson, and Keith G. Keel
Does Questionnaire Color Affect Survey Response Rates J.L Esposito and J.B. Jobe

1990

Title Author(s)
Alternative Imputation Methods for Wage Data Sandra A. West, Shail Butani, and Michael Witt
Applying Cognitive Theory and Techniques to an Establishment Survey Polly Phipps

 

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