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For over 100 years, the evolution of modern survey
methodology--using the theory of representative sampling to make
inferences from a part of the population to the whole--has been
paralleled by a drive toward automation, harnessing technology and
computerization to make parts of the survey process easier, faster,
and better. The availability of portable computers in the late
1980s ushered in computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPl), in
which interviewers administer a survey instrument to respondents
using a computerized version of the questionnaire on a portable
laptop computer. Computer assisted interviewing (CAI) methods have
proven to be extremely useful and beneficial in survey
administration. However, the practical problems encountered in
documentation and testing CAI instruments suggest that this is an
opportune time to reexamine not only the process of developing CAI
instruments but also the future directions of survey automation
writ large.
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Innovations in Federal Statistics - Combining Data Sources While Protecting Privacy (Paperback)
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Panel on Improving Federal Statistics for Policy and Social Science Research Using Multiple Data Sources and State-of-the-Art Estimation Methods; Edited by Brian A. Harris-Kojetin, …
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Federal government statistics provide critical information to the
country and serve a key role in a democracy. For decades, sample
surveys with instruments carefully designed for particular data
needs have been one of the primary methods for collecting data for
federal statistics. However, the costs of conducting such surveys
have been increasing while response rates have been declining, and
many surveys are not able to fulfill growing demands for more
timely information and for more detailed information at state and
local levels. Innovations in Federal Statistics examines the
opportunities and risks of using government administrative and
private sector data sources to foster a paradigm shift in federal
statistical programs that would combine diverse data sources in a
secure manner to enhance federal statistics. This first publication
of a two-part series discusses the challenges faced by the federal
statistical system and the foundational elements needed for a new
paradigm. Table of Contents Front Matter Executive Summary 1
Introduction 2 Current Challenges and Opportunities in Federal
Statistics 3 Using Government Administrative and Other Data for
Federal Statistics 4 Using Private-Sector Data for Federal
Statistics 5 Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality While Providing
Access to Data for Research Use 6 Advancing the Paradigm of
Combining Data Sources References Appendix A: Workshop Agendas
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Committee on National Statistics
It is easy to underestimate how little was known about crimes and
victims before the findings of the National Crime Victimization
Survey (NCVS) became common wisdom. In the late 1960s, knowledge of
crimes and their victims came largely from reports filed by local
police agencies as part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's
(FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system, as well as from studies
of the files held by individual police departments. Criminologists
understood that there existed a "dark figure" of crime consisting
of events not reported to the police. However, over the course of
the last decade, the effectiveness of the NCVS has been undermined
by the demands of conducting an increasingly expensive survey in an
effectively flat-line budgetary environment. Surveying Victims:
Options for Conducting the National Crime Victimization Survey,
reviews the programs of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS.)
Specifically, it explores alternative options for conducting the
NCVS, which is the largest BJS program. This book describes various
design possibilities and their implications relative to three basic
goals; flexibility, in terms of both content and analysis; utility
for gathering information on crimes that are not well reported to
police; and small-domain estimation, including providing
information on states or localities. This book finds that, as
currently configured and funded, the NCVS is not achieving and
cannot achieve BJS's mandated goal to "collect and analyze data
that will serve as a continuous indication of the incidence and
attributes of crime." Accordingly, Surveying Victims recommends
that BJS be afforded the budgetary resources necessary to generate
accurate measure of victimization.
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