NCJ Number
152267
Date Published
1990
Length
420 pages
Annotation
This report documents the methodology used in the Household Survey component of the National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children.
Abstract
The first chapter presents the background of the study and provides an overview of the various technical aspects of the study. Subsequent chapters discuss these technical aspects in detail. Beginning with a description of the design and contents of the interview instrument, the authors then explain how interviewers were selected and trained, as well as how the household sample was designed and selected. Next, the report outlines the method of data collection and the procedures that guided the 8-month period during which the survey interviews were conducted. This is followed by a presentation of the initial results of data collection and information on the survey response rates. The report then provides all the technical information about how the data were weighted and how variances were established. This includes a description of how various estimates were generated and a discussion of the error of estimation and confidence interval for each estimate provided in the NISMART Findings Report. Appended interview instrument; discussion of the reliability of evaluative coding; rules for determining case countability; and estimates, errors of estimation, and confidence intervals