Collection and questionnaires
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- Articles and reports: 11-522-X201300014255Description:
The Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br) has designed and carried out a pilot project to collect data from the Web in order to produce statistics about the webpages’ characteristics. Studies on the characteristics and dimensions of the web require collecting and analyzing information from a dynamic and complex environment. The core idea was collecting data from a sample of webpages automatically by using software known as web crawler. The motivation for this paper is to disseminate the methods and results of this study as well as to show current developments related to sampling techniques in a dynamic environment.
Release date: 2014-10-31 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X200800010993Description:
Until now, years of experience in questionnaire design were required to estimate how long it would take a respondent, on the average, to complete a CATI questionnaire for a new survey. This presentation focuses on a new method which produces interview time estimates for questionnaires at the development stage. The method uses Blaise Audit Trail data and previous surveys. It was developed, tested and verified for accuracy on some large scale surveys.
First, audit trail data was used to determine the average time previous respondents have taken to answer specific types of questions. These would include questions that require a yes/no answer, scaled questions, "mark all that apply" questions, etc. Second, for any given questionnaire, the paths taken by population sub-groups were mapped to identify the series of questions answered by different types of respondents, and timed to determine what the longest possible interview time would be. Finally, the overall expected time it takes to complete the questionnaire is calculated using estimated proportions of the population expected to answer each question.
So far, we used paradata to accurately estimate average respondent interview completion times. We note that the method that we developed could also be used to estimate specific respondent interview completion times.
Release date: 2009-12-03 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X200800011004Description:
The issue of reducing the response burden is not new. Statistics Sweden works in different ways to reduce response burden and to decrease the administrative costs of data collection from enterprises and organizations. According to legislation Statistics Sweden must reduce response burden for the business community. Therefore, this work is a priority. There is a fixed level decided by the Government to decrease the administrative costs of enterprises by twenty-five percent until year 2010. This goal is valid also for data collection for statistical purposes. The goal concerns surveys with response compulsory legislation. In addition to these surveys there are many more surveys and a need to measure and reduce the burden from these surveys as well. In order to help measure, analyze and reduce the burden, Statistics Sweden has developed the Register of Data providers concerning enterprises and organization (ULR). The purpose of the register is twofold, to measure and analyze the burden on an aggregated level and to be able to give information to each individual enterprise which surveys they are participating in.
Release date: 2009-12-03 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017729Description:
This paper describes the design of the samples and analyses factors that affect the scope of the direct data collection for the first Integrated Census (IC) experiment.
Release date: 2005-01-26 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016289Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
Increasing demand for electronic reporting in establishment surveys has placed additional emphasis on incorporating usability into electronic forms. We are just beginning to understand the implications surrounding electronic forms design. Cognitive interviewing and usability testing are analogous in that both types of testing have similar goals: to build an end instrument (paper or electronic) that reduces both respondent burden and measurement error. Cognitive testing has greatly influenced paper forms design and can also be applied towards the development of electronic forms. Usability testing expands on existing cognitive testing methodology to include examination of the interaction between the respondent and the electronic form.
The upcoming U.S. 2002 Economic Census will offer businesses the ability to report information using electronic forms. The U.S. Census Bureau is creating an electronic forms style guide outlining the design standards to be used in electronic form creation. The style guide's design standards are based on usability principles, usability and cognitive test results, and Graphical User Interface standards. This paper highlights the major electronic forms design issues raised during the preparation of the style guide and describes how usability testing and cognitive interviewing resolved these issues.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - 6. Telesurvey methodologies for household surveys: A review and some thoughts for the future ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X20010015851Description:
We consider 'telesurveys' as surveys in which the predominant or unique mode of collection is based on some means of electronic telecommunications - including both the telephone and other more advanced technological devices such as e-mail, Internet, videophone or fax. We review, briefly, the early history of telephone surveys, and, in more detail, recent developments in the areas of sample design and estimation, coverage and nonresponse and evaluation of data quality. All these methodological developments have led the telephone survey to become the major mode of collection in the sample survey field in the past quarter of a century. Other modes of advanced telecommunication are fast becoming important supplements and even competitors to the fixed line telephone and are already being used in various ways for sample surveys. We examine their potential for survey work and the possible impact of current and future technological developments of the communications industry on survey practice and their methodological implications.
Release date: 2001-08-22 - 7. Interprovincial data requirements for local health indicators: The British Columbia experience ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X19950022507Geography: Province or territoryDescription:
Indicators based on the registration of vital events are used to determine the health status of populations. The need for these indicators at the regional and community levels has grown with the trend toward decentralization in the delivery of health services. Such indicators are important because they affect funding and the types of service that are provided. Health status indicators tend to be associated with variables such as the level of urbanization or socioeconomic status. According to four indicators - mortality ratios for all causes of death, mortality ratios for external causes of death, infant mortality ratios, and low birth weight live birth ratios - some areas of British Columbia, specifically along the border with Alberta, have relatively good health, although the characteristics of these regions suggest that this should not be the case. However, a much different picture emerges when vital event data registered in Alberta for residents of these areas of British Columbia are considered. This article shows that for adequate health planning and program implementation, some communities need data from neighbouring provinces. It illustrates the effect of incorporating Alberta data into the development of health status indicators for British Columbia. It also suggests that similar adjustments may be necessary for data compiled in other provinces.
Release date: 1995-11-20
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- Articles and reports: 11-522-X201300014255Description:
The Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br) has designed and carried out a pilot project to collect data from the Web in order to produce statistics about the webpages’ characteristics. Studies on the characteristics and dimensions of the web require collecting and analyzing information from a dynamic and complex environment. The core idea was collecting data from a sample of webpages automatically by using software known as web crawler. The motivation for this paper is to disseminate the methods and results of this study as well as to show current developments related to sampling techniques in a dynamic environment.
Release date: 2014-10-31 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X200800010993Description:
Until now, years of experience in questionnaire design were required to estimate how long it would take a respondent, on the average, to complete a CATI questionnaire for a new survey. This presentation focuses on a new method which produces interview time estimates for questionnaires at the development stage. The method uses Blaise Audit Trail data and previous surveys. It was developed, tested and verified for accuracy on some large scale surveys.
First, audit trail data was used to determine the average time previous respondents have taken to answer specific types of questions. These would include questions that require a yes/no answer, scaled questions, "mark all that apply" questions, etc. Second, for any given questionnaire, the paths taken by population sub-groups were mapped to identify the series of questions answered by different types of respondents, and timed to determine what the longest possible interview time would be. Finally, the overall expected time it takes to complete the questionnaire is calculated using estimated proportions of the population expected to answer each question.
So far, we used paradata to accurately estimate average respondent interview completion times. We note that the method that we developed could also be used to estimate specific respondent interview completion times.
Release date: 2009-12-03 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X200800011004Description:
The issue of reducing the response burden is not new. Statistics Sweden works in different ways to reduce response burden and to decrease the administrative costs of data collection from enterprises and organizations. According to legislation Statistics Sweden must reduce response burden for the business community. Therefore, this work is a priority. There is a fixed level decided by the Government to decrease the administrative costs of enterprises by twenty-five percent until year 2010. This goal is valid also for data collection for statistical purposes. The goal concerns surveys with response compulsory legislation. In addition to these surveys there are many more surveys and a need to measure and reduce the burden from these surveys as well. In order to help measure, analyze and reduce the burden, Statistics Sweden has developed the Register of Data providers concerning enterprises and organization (ULR). The purpose of the register is twofold, to measure and analyze the burden on an aggregated level and to be able to give information to each individual enterprise which surveys they are participating in.
Release date: 2009-12-03 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017729Description:
This paper describes the design of the samples and analyses factors that affect the scope of the direct data collection for the first Integrated Census (IC) experiment.
Release date: 2005-01-26 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016289Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
Increasing demand for electronic reporting in establishment surveys has placed additional emphasis on incorporating usability into electronic forms. We are just beginning to understand the implications surrounding electronic forms design. Cognitive interviewing and usability testing are analogous in that both types of testing have similar goals: to build an end instrument (paper or electronic) that reduces both respondent burden and measurement error. Cognitive testing has greatly influenced paper forms design and can also be applied towards the development of electronic forms. Usability testing expands on existing cognitive testing methodology to include examination of the interaction between the respondent and the electronic form.
The upcoming U.S. 2002 Economic Census will offer businesses the ability to report information using electronic forms. The U.S. Census Bureau is creating an electronic forms style guide outlining the design standards to be used in electronic form creation. The style guide's design standards are based on usability principles, usability and cognitive test results, and Graphical User Interface standards. This paper highlights the major electronic forms design issues raised during the preparation of the style guide and describes how usability testing and cognitive interviewing resolved these issues.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - 6. Telesurvey methodologies for household surveys: A review and some thoughts for the future ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X20010015851Description:
We consider 'telesurveys' as surveys in which the predominant or unique mode of collection is based on some means of electronic telecommunications - including both the telephone and other more advanced technological devices such as e-mail, Internet, videophone or fax. We review, briefly, the early history of telephone surveys, and, in more detail, recent developments in the areas of sample design and estimation, coverage and nonresponse and evaluation of data quality. All these methodological developments have led the telephone survey to become the major mode of collection in the sample survey field in the past quarter of a century. Other modes of advanced telecommunication are fast becoming important supplements and even competitors to the fixed line telephone and are already being used in various ways for sample surveys. We examine their potential for survey work and the possible impact of current and future technological developments of the communications industry on survey practice and their methodological implications.
Release date: 2001-08-22 - 7. Interprovincial data requirements for local health indicators: The British Columbia experience ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X19950022507Geography: Province or territoryDescription:
Indicators based on the registration of vital events are used to determine the health status of populations. The need for these indicators at the regional and community levels has grown with the trend toward decentralization in the delivery of health services. Such indicators are important because they affect funding and the types of service that are provided. Health status indicators tend to be associated with variables such as the level of urbanization or socioeconomic status. According to four indicators - mortality ratios for all causes of death, mortality ratios for external causes of death, infant mortality ratios, and low birth weight live birth ratios - some areas of British Columbia, specifically along the border with Alberta, have relatively good health, although the characteristics of these regions suggest that this should not be the case. However, a much different picture emerges when vital event data registered in Alberta for residents of these areas of British Columbia are considered. This article shows that for adequate health planning and program implementation, some communities need data from neighbouring provinces. It illustrates the effect of incorporating Alberta data into the development of health status indicators for British Columbia. It also suggests that similar adjustments may be necessary for data compiled in other provinces.
Release date: 1995-11-20
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