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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
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