Innovative Insights on Racial Segregation Trends in America
Discover intriguing research insights on the decreasing racial segregation in urban areas, implications for survey sampling strategies, and the importance of accurate representation in minority population studies. Explore the nuances of geographic-based oversampling and the effectiveness of screening methods in data collection.
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Discussion of Chen and Kalton David R. Judkins Abt Associates WSS December 3, 2014 Abt Associates
Notes America is becoming less racially segregated At least in urban areas Hooray! Different story than the WSS presentation Joe Waksberg gave on the topic on March 18, 1992 (only time I ever made the A section of the Washington Post) But bad news for low-cost oversampling of minorities for surveys Need to rely more on screening Abt Associates 2
Limits of inexpensive minority samples Some list purveyors draw your attention to low false positive rates when all that matters are the false negative rates These they hide or do not even understand Don t accept a sample of rural and ghetto blacks as representative of the national experience for African Americans Same is true for reservation-based sample of the American Indian and Alaskan Native population Abt Associates 3
Geographic-based oversampling Still makes sense for one-off surveys Particularly of AIAN populations and rural nonwhite populations Avoid for longitudinal surveys and surveys with expensive add-on elements such as laboratory work Makes sense perhaps for very large surveys in combination with screening even if return is very small, but need to consider fixed cost of systems to implement it Abt Associates 4
Screening Much easier to target multiple rare domains Does not lead to large design effects for majority population as does oversampling without screening However, field staff do not like it They need to train interviewers for two very different tasks Effort to get the foot in the door is so high that they hate to walk away from a cooperative respondent Counter with liberal use of proxies for screening (neighbors) Remember though to allow for screening errors in projecting design effects Abt Associates 5
Some additional references Wright, D., Judkins, D., and Ryaboy, S. (1992). Residential segregation and health of minority populations. Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, pp. 198-203. Fahimi, M., and Judkins, D. (1991). PSU probabilities given differential sampling at second stage. Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods of the American Statistical Association, pp. 538-543. Abt Associates 6
Contact Information David_Judkins@abtassoc.com Abt Associates
