| Title: | An Experiment in Random-Digit-Dial Screening |
| Description: | This report presents the design and results of this experiment in random-digit-dial (RDD) screening. It begins with an overview of the National Household Education Survey (NHES) system, then proceeds through the design, data collection, and analysis of the data from the experiment. Because the NHES:95 was the first survey in this ongoing data collection system to use full enumeration of all household members in all sampled households, it was suspected that this approach was a likely factor in the decline of the screening response rate. A systematic experiment was developed and executed to examine the impact of the full enumeration approach on survey response. The experiment also included a test of an advance letter to households for which addresses could be obtained, based on the success of a nonresponse letter utilized in the NHES:95. |
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| Cover Date: | December 1997 |
| Web Release: | December 11, 1997 |
| Print Release: | December 11, 1997 |
| Publication #: | NCES 98255 General Ordering Information |
| Center/Program: | NCES |
| Authors: | J. Michael Brick and Mary Collins (Westat, Inc.) |
| Type of Product: | Technical/Methodological |
| Survey/Program Areas: |
National Household Education Survey (NHES) |
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For questions about the content of this Technical/Methodological, please contact: Kathryn A. Chandler. |
