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... Metropolitan planning staffs generally believe that data collected in one region have little relevance to another region. While there is no doubt that there will be local issues that may make transfer of data difficult or inappropriate at times, the major reason for this perception is that because each household travel survey is usually sufficiently different in design and execution from any other survey, comparisons from region to region are completely obscured by differences in method and implementation.
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... Both Chapter 2 of this report and the Technical Appendix are organized according to the chronology of undertaking a household travel survey. Initially, each of these deals with design aspects of a survey (survey instruments and data collection procedures)
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... In the area of survey design, these include a minimum set of questions that all such surveys should include, with standardized categories for recording responses to many of those questions, and suggested standardized wordings for asking some of the questions. In the design of data collection procedures, the issues addressed cover the number and type of contacts that should be made with potential respondents; how to handle proxy reporting; how to define what is a complete household; how to replace sample losses resulting from refusals, terminations, and ineligibility; how to handle item non-response and unit non-response; how to make the initial contact, providing incentives; and how to measure and reduce respondent burden.
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... There were also 18 aspects that were identified in the early stages of this research, but which were not researched because of lack of time or resources. These include issues relating to the design of data collection procedures, survey execution, sampling, pilot surveys and pretests, and quality assessment.
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