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Working Paper

Residence Rules and Seasonality Questions on the ACS

July 07, 2003

The report makes recommendations about the residence rules and the multiple residence questions, and suggests that more research is needed in this area.

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Working Paper

Results & Recommendations: 2003 Public School Questionnaire from SASS

July 26, 2003

Staff conducted cognitive interviews to evaluate revised questions for the 2003 SASS Public School Questionnaire.

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Working Paper

Results of Cognitive Pretesting for SIPP Work Related Expenses Module

June 30, 2003

The Center for Survey Methods Research conducted cognitive testing of proposed new questions on costs of child care to be included in the 2001 SIPP.

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Working Paper

Testing the Functional Equivalency of Questionnaire Translations

August 05, 2003

This study represents the U.S. Census Bureau's first attempt to apply known pre-testing techniques as developed in the monolingual English context.

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Working Paper

Testing of Question to Address the Respondent Identification Policy

June 30, 2003

To address recent increases in privacy concerns, the Census has developed a RIP guideline for household surveys that uses dependant interviewing techniques.

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Working Paper

Results & Recommendations: Employment History Module to the SIPP

July 26, 2003

Staff conducted cognitive testing of the revised Employment History Topical Module prior to fielding it as part of the SIPP Methods Panel testing.

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Working Paper

Report of Cognitive Research on the Veterans Questions for the ACS

May 09, 2003

The Center for Survey Methods Research staff conduct cognitive testing on newly-proposed question wording for the veterans questions for the 2003 ACS.

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Working Paper

Results & Recommendations: 2003 Recipiency History Module

July 26, 2003

Staff in the Statistical Research Division conducted cognitive research on the revised Recipiency History Topical Module.

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Working Paper

Cognitive Evaluation of Disability Questions for 1998 Dress Rehearsal

June 24, 2003

The Center for Survey Methods Research conducted cognitive research as part of the development of the disability questions for the 1998 Dress Rehearsal.

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Working Paper

Results & Recommendations: SIPP Cash Balance Pension Question

July 26, 2003

Staff conducted cognitive research to evaluate newly-proposed wording of a series of questions dealing with cash balance pension plans.

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Working Paper

School Crime Supp. for 2001 National Crime Victimization Survey

May 09, 2003

The School Crime Supplement is sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics and administered to persons 12-18 years.

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Working Paper

Results & Recommendations: Assisted Living Facilities and Tenure

July 07, 2003

The purpose of this research was to investigate the details of assisted living arrangements for the elderly.

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Working Paper

Results & Recommendations: 2003 SIPP Welfare Reform Module

July 26, 2003

Staff in the Statistical Research Division conducted cognitive research on the draft questionnaire for the 2003 SIPP Welfare Reform Module.

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Working Paper

Computer Crime Questions for 2001 National Crime Victimization Survey

May 09, 2003

The Bureau of Justice Statistics proposed new questions on computer crime for inclusion in the 2001 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).

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Working Paper

Results & Recommendations: Selected Materials Accompanying the ACS

July 09, 2003

Staff conducted cognitive testing of materials mailed to American Community Survey respondents under voluntary and mandatory response conditions.

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Working Paper

SIPP Advance Letter Focus Group Results: Issues and Recommendations

July 02, 2003

This report contains the results of the first phase of this exploratory research project, which are findings from the focus groups.

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Working Paper

Alternative Admin. Records Use Paragraph of the SIPP Advance Letter

July 2003

The main objective for this research was to create and pretest an alternative administrative records use disclosure paragraph.

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Working Paper

Complex Households and Relationships in the Decennial Census

August 27, 2003

Exploratory ethnographic research to learn more about non-nuclear, or complex, households and to identify ways to improve enumeration.

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