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2007
Title |
Author(s) |
Factors affecting Response to the Occupational Employment Statistics Survey |
Polly A. Phipps and Carrie K. Jones |
Alternative Allocation Designs for a Highly Stratified Establishment Survey |
Ernest Lawley, Marie Stetster, and Eduardas Valaitis |
Reduction of Sample Areas in the Consumer Price Index and Consumer Expenditure Survey Designs
|
Patrick Bobbitt, Steven P. Paben, Moon Jung Cho, James A. Himelein Jr., Te-Ching Chen and Lawrence Ernst |
Reduction of Sample Areas in the Consumer Price Index and Consumer Expenditure Survey Designs |
Lawrence Ernst, William H. Johnson and William E. Larson |
Variance Estimations for International Price Program Indexes |
Te-Ching Chen, Patrick Bobbitt, James Himelein Jr., Steven Paben, Moon Jung Cho and Lawrence Ernst |
Empirical Evaluation of X-11 and Model-Based Seasonal Adjustment Methods |
Stuart Scott, Richard Tiller and Daniel Chow |
Real-Time Estimation of Revised GDP Based on an Estimated Model of Initial and Revised GDP |
Baoline Chen and Peter Zadrozny |
An Assessment of the Effect of Misreporting of Phone Line Information on Key Weighted Estimates from Four National RDD Surveys |
Ashley Bowers and Jeffrey Gonzalez |
Robustness of Latent Class Measurement Error Models |
Brian Meekins and Daniell Toth |
Practical Considerations in Applying the pq-Rule for Primary Disclosure Suppressions |
Meghan O'Malley and Lawrence Ernst |
Multiple Matrix Sampling: A Review |
Jeffrey Gonzalez and John L. Eltinge |
Assessing the Effect of Government Frame Refinement on Collecting Establishment Data for the National Compensation Survey |
Glenn Springer |
Promoting Quantitative Literacy for School-Age Children |
Shail Butani |
Evaluation of Prospective Costs and Benefits of Standards for Statistical Programs |
John Eltinge |
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. OMalley, 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 Benfords
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 |
Whats
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
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 |
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 |
The
Occupational Safety And Health Survey: Instrument Redesign |
Leda Kydoniefs |
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