Assessment of Major Federal Data Sets for Analyses of Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander Subgroups and Native Americans:
Extending the Utility of Federal Data Bases

Appendix A

Table A-1.
Sources used to provide estimates of design effects

Survey	Source
Census
Census 2000	Estimated from description of sample design
ACS	Estimated from description of sample design
CPS	U.S. Census Bureau reports, Series P-60, No’s 198 and 200
SIPP	Communication from U.S. Census Bureau
NCHS/CDC
NHIS	NHIS report on Variance Estimation, by D. Judkins and D. Wright, September 20, 1990
NSFG	National Survey Family Growth, Cycle IV, Evaluation of Linked Design, NCHS Series 2, No. 117, July 1993
NIS	Estimated from description of sample design
NHANES	Sample Design Research for NHANES ’97, Oct. ’94, page 2-1, combined with description of sample design
AHRQ
MEPS	Design Effects of Survey Estimates Derived from the 1996 MEPS, William Yu, paper prepared for 1999 annual meetings of the American Statistical Association
HCFA
MCBS	Components of Variance and Nonresponse Adjustments for MCBS, by D. Judkins and A. Lo. Proceedings of Section on Survey Research Methods of the A.S.A., 1993
SAMHSA
HSDA	Methodological Resource Book for the 1991 NHSDA
NCES
NHES	Unit and Item Respondent Weighting and Imputation Procedures in the 1995 NHES, NCES Working Paper 97-06. Estimated from description of sample design.
ECLS-B	Estimated from description of sample-design.
ECLS-K	Estimated from description of sample-design.

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