Survey Weights in the 2018 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Adjusted Using Iterative Proportional Fitting

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• Personal Author:
  Strashny, Alexander ; Beresovsky, Vladislav ; Schappert, Susan, M. ; Santo, Loredana
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  Public health report presenting a new weight adjustment method for the 2018 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey to better address nonresponse bias due to increasing survey nonresponse rates. The report describes the iterative proportional fitting method, which improves the efficiency of estimates for office-based physicians and patient visits while maintaining consistency with previous estimates.
• Subjects:
  Health Surveys Sampling Studies
• Keywords:
  raking, nonresponse bias, participation bias, physician, response rate, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, NAMCS
• Source:
  National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
• Series:
  NCHS Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  19 Pages
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  202
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:287e490983413853ab42ae00570ae584a2246f1de7f7e12653d5d8d0542d78477a23f8382511de08cab2e5ff95267d40b1ff9f204995cf11aac5a4d0e1369a1e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/124658/cdc_124658_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.46 MB ]