[Forum SIS] University of Manchester Social Statistics Seminar - Tuesday, 2 February, 4pm GMT

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Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21 – February Session

*Assessing Questionnaire Changes when Experiments are Not Possible: 
Application to the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey
*_Stephanie Eckman (RTI International)_**

Join us at 4pm (GMT) on 2 February 2021!

Registration link: http://bit.ly/socstat0221 <http://bit.ly/socstat0221>

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*Abstract*

Many large-scale government surveys do not have the budget or time to 
conduct experiments to assess the effects of questionnaire changes. 
Rather than conducting an experiment, this paper proposes the use of a 
parallel web survey and multiple imputation to estimate the impact of 
changes to a questionnaire. The approach is applied to the U. S. 
Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey, which informs the calculation of 
the official measure of inflation, among other uses. Results suggest 
that revising the questionnaire could increase the report of household 
purchases by approximately five percentage points in the sections 
tested. The approach used here, involving a web survey built to mimic 
the expenditure survey, could be applied in other large surveys where 
budget or logistical constraints prevent experimentation.

*About the speaker*

Dr Eckman conducts research into data quality and the social 
construction of data. Her main areas of interest are using passive data 
to supplement or replace survey data; the shortcuts respondents take to 
reduce the length of surveys; and innovative sample designs.

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