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Johnson, Victoria A. – 1991
The effectiveness of five methods used to estimate the population parameters of a variable of interest from a random sample in the presence of non-response to mail surveys was tested in conditions that vary the return rate and the relationship of the variable of interest to the likelihood of response. Data from 125,092 adult Alabama residents in…
Descriptors: Adults, Census Figures, Comparative Analysis, Estimation (Mathematics)
Peer reviewedDent, Clyde W.; Sussman, Steve Y.; Stacy, Alan W. – Evaluation Review, 1997
Differences between means, variance, and correlation parameter estimates from a full school sample and samples restricted by parental consent were studied with 1,609 students at continuation high schools and 1,192 at traditional high schools. Sample bias due to consent policies may not be a substantive problem, especially if a telephone consent…
Descriptors: Correlation, Drug Use, Estimation (Mathematics), High School Students
Download full textMontaquila, Jill M.; Brick, J. Michael; Brock, Shelley P. – 1997
The National Household Education Survey (NHES) is a telephone survey of the noninstitutionalized civilian population of the United States that collects data on educational issues that are best explored through contact with households rather than with institutions. The NHES has been conducted in 1991, 1993, 1995, and 1996. In the 1996 NHES…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, Citizen Participation, Cost Effectiveness
Montaquila, Jill M.; Brick, J. Michael; Brock, Shelley P. – 1997
The National Household Education Survey (NHES) is a telephone survey of the noninstitutionalized civilian population of the United States that collects data on educational issues that are best explored through contact with households rather than with institutions. In the 1996 NHES (NHES:96) the topical components of interest were parent and family…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Children, Citizen Participation
Kasprzyk, Dan, Ed. – 1997
The 11 papers in this volume were presented at the 1996 American Statistical Association (ASA) meeting in Chicago (Illinois), August 4 through 8. This is the fourth collection of ASA papers of particular interest to users of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) survey data published in the "Working Papers" series. The…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Estimation (Mathematics)
Ingels, Steven J.; And Others – 1989
Nonresponse issues are investigated for the base year (1988) survey of the United States Department of Education's National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), a national probability sample of middle schools and eighth-grade students in the spring of 1988. The total eighth-grade enrollment for the NELS:88 sample of schools was 203,002;…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics)
