SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report

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Status: Approved

Basic Information

Project No. and Title: WERA1001 : Reduction of Error in Rural and Agricultural Surveys
Period Covered: 10/01/2003 to 09/01/2004
Date of Report: 08/23/2005
Annual Meeting Dates: 03/04/2004 to 03/05/2004

Tommy Brown (New York) tlb4@cornell.edu; Don Dillman (Washington) dillman@wsu.edu; Fred Lorenz (Iowa) folorenz@iastate.edu; Bob Mason (Oregon) masonr@stat.orst.edu; Rob Robertson (New Hampshire) robertr@cisunix.unh.edu; Robie Sangster (BLS) Sangster_R@bls.gov; Steve Swinford (Montana) swinford@montana.edu; Brian Meekins (BLS) Meekins_B@bls.gov; Shorna Broussard (Purdue) srb@fnr.purdue.edu; Glenn Israel (Florida State) GDI@mail.ifas.ufl.edu; Loretta Singletary (UN, Reno) singletaryl@unce.unr.edu; Virginia Lesser (Oregon) lesser@stat.orst.edu; The following were not in attendance, but either are members or have shown interest; Angela Mertig (Michigan) mertig@msu.edu; John Saltiel (Montana) jsaltiel@montana.edu; Frank Howell (Mississippi) fmh1@ra.msstate.edu; Fern Willits (Pennsylvania) fkw@psu.edu; Vicki McCracken (Administrative advisor) mccracke@wsu.edu

Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Please see the attached file for the WERA-1001: Experiments in Survey March 4 - 5, 2004 Minutes

Legacy attachment file:

[Minutes]

Accomplishments

This was the first year of the project and our organizational meeting was in March, 2003. The impact was for members of the committee to get help from one another in designing their own research projects. Specifically, projects by investigators in several states (e.g. Iowa, Florida, Oregon and Washington were designed differently than they would have been without impact from other committee members.

Impacts

Measurable impacts of the project are quite limited because of it being the first year of the project.

Publications

Amer, S., V. Lesser, and R. Burton. 2003. Neural Network Imputation, A New Fashion or A Good Tool: Linear Neural Network Imputation. Proceedings of the Survey Research Section, American Statistical Association Meetings. Connelly, N. A., T. L. Brown, and D. J. Decker. 2003. Factors affecting response rates to natural-resource-focused mail surveys: empirical evidence of declining rates over time. Society and Natural Resources 16:541-549. Redline, Cleo D., Don A. Dillman, Araf Dajani, and Mary Ann Scaggs. 2003. "Improving Navigational Performance in U.S. Census 2000 Byi Altering the Visual Languages of Branching Instructions." Journal of Official Statistics 19(4):403-420.

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