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Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions -- The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Volume II, Technical Papers (1991) / Chapter Skim
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... . The adjustment for person nonresponse in the CPS uses a procedure that the Census Bureau refers to as a "statistical match" to impute an entire record for each nonrespondent.5 In this procedure, the records are indexed by various characteristics that are available for both respondents and nonrespondents, and a search is made for the respondent donor who best matches each nonrespondent.6 SAltematives to imputing for person (and item)
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... Less than 10 percent completed fewer than three interviews.7 The Census Bureau's procedures for adjusting for household and person nonresponse in the SIPP on a cross-sectional basis, that is, for the data records for each interview wave, are similar to those described for the CPS. Household nonresponse is handled by a weighting adjustment, and person nonresponse is handled by the Census Bureau's "statistical match" procedure.
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  • population undercoverage


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