Using the Census Planning Database to Generate Differential Expected Yield Rates to Self-administered Mail Surveys. Issue 2 (May 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lewis, Taylor; McMichael, Joseph
• Is Part Of: Field methods. Volume 35:Issue 2(2023)
• Page Start: 160
• Page End: 165
• Publication Date: 2023-05
• Subjects: Ethnology -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Anthropology -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Anthropologie -- Méthodologie -- Périodiques; 306.072
• DOI: 10.1177/1525822X221074764
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1525-822X

Abstract

Expected yield rates are essential to a survey's data collection plan, as they inform requisite sample sizes to meet the survey's objectives. Given an overall expected yield rate for a self-administered mail survey, this short take describes a simple method for using the Census Planning Database to assign differential yield rates to lower-level geographies within the study area.