Abstract
Gwyn R. Ferguson and Tamara M. Ciapponi (1994)
"A Response Model for the International Price Program,"
Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American
Statistical Association, forthcoming.
The International Price Program uses an establishment
survey in which monthly price data is collected for goods
imported into the U.S. or exported from the U.S. This paper
discusses the model developed to describe the sample loss at
each stage of the survey process from frame preparation
through index estimation. During the survey process business
establishments are selected and refined. Within selected
establishments, general product categories are sampled for
initiation. Unique items are then selected within each
general category during an initiation process and the
selected items are repriced each month until they are phased
out of the survey. Broad categories of sample response are
described and detailed reasons for each category are
explored. Actual loss rates for recent importer and exporter
samples are also given.
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