Abstract
Joan Coleman and Penny James (1994)
"The Reliability of the Locality Pay Estimates," Proceedings
of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical
Association, forthcoming.
In support of the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act
of 1990, the Bureau of Labor Statistics was required to
develop a program of white collar occupational wage surveys
in private industry and state and local governments. To
accomplish this goal, the Area Wage Survey and White Collar
Pay (WCP) survey programs were integrated. This new program
produced wage estimates for thirty-two selected metropolitan
areas and estimates for national products. The national
estimates were based on these thirty-two areas and other
areas which were selected by stratified random sampling with
probability proportionate to size. To determine the
reliability, relative standard errors (RSEs) for the wage
estimates were computed for the entire program and compared
to RSEs of similar past surveys. The RSEs for the thirty-two
metropolitan areas were compared to RSEs of surveys from the
Area Wage program; while the RSEs for the national products
were compared to RSEs from the WCP survey. Based upon the
comparison of RSEs, the new combined program was determined
to be as reliable as the previous programs.
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