Chapter 8 Case Study
The sample design report outline is from (Valliant 2013).
8.1 Sample Design Report
8.1.1 Executive summary
- Provide a brief overview of the survey including information related to general study goals and year when annual survey was first implemented.
- Describe the purpose of this document.
- Provide a table of the sample size to be selected per business unit (i.e., respondent sample size inflated for ineligibility and nonresponse).
- Discuss the contents of the remaining section of the report.
8.1.2 Sample design
- Describe the target population.
- Describe the sampling frame including the date and source database.
- Describe the type of sample and method of sample selection to be used.
8.1.3 Sample size and allocation
- Optimization requirements
– Optimization details including constraints and budget.
– Detail the minimum domain sizes and mechanics used to determine the sizes. - Optimization results
– Results: minimum respondent sample size per stratum
– Marginal sample sizes for key reporting domains
– Estimated precision achieved by optimization results
- Inflation adjustments to allocation solution
– Nonresponse adjustments
– Adjustments for ineligible sample members
- Final sample allocation
– Marginal sample sizes for key reporting domains
- Sensitivity analysis
– Results from comparing deviations to allocation after introducing changes to the optimization system
References
Valliant, Jill A.; Kreuter, Richard; Dever. 2013. Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93632-1.