Abstract
Area sampling is a catchall term for a set of procedures in which geographic areas are selected as intermediate units on the way to sampling lower-level units that are the targets of a survey. The chapter contains geographic summaries of data on population counts, demographic distributions, and other detailed estimates that are used in sample design in lieu of a population registry. We discuss composite size measures for the PSUs that are particularly useful in accomplishing the design goals for domains at the element level while keeping cost in check. Given the amount of time to develop an area frame and to select units at lower sampling stages, we discuss methods for addressing differences between the frame and what can be found in the field. Finally, the chapter also reviews a relatively new type of sampling methodology known as address-based sampling, which can reduce or eliminate the need for field-listing of households before sampling.
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The U.S. Census Bureau does maintain a nearly complete list of addresses, but addresses and households are not the same.
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The NCVS is conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice. http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245
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No persons may be sampled from households with common characteristics so that study funds can be used to oversample households with more rare traits (e.g., households with children or of a certain minority race/ethnicity).
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In this example, we take an address, an HU, and a household to be the same although for a small proportion of addresses there may be multiple HUs or households.
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Valliant, R., Dever, J.A., Kreuter, F. (2018). Area Sampling. In: Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples. Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93632-1_10
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