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Appendix D: Alternative Sampling Frames for SRS Personnel Surveys
Pages 138-142

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... Appendix D Alternative Sampling Frames For SRS Personnel Surveys
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... Individuals identified as ~ The sample size for scientists and engineers in the CPS could be expanded by combining monthly samples for a year. However, the increase in effective sample size would be much less than 12 times the monthly sample size because of the rotation group design used in the CPS, whereby household addresses are included in the survey for 4 months, dropped from the survey for 8 months, and then included in the survey for another 4 months.
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... This approach quickly becomes expensive because the stratum of other college graduates includes many cases who are not of interest. Another approach is to sample other college graduates at a low rate relative to working scientists and engineers, which permits a smaller overall sample size.
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... Also, one or the other survey could be used on occasion to identify subsamples of scientists and engineers to receive questionnaires on special topics. Box D1 provides approximate sample sizes from the SESTAT system, the March CPS, and the ACS for various size groups of scientists and engineers to illustrate the gains from use of the ACS.
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... Box D-1. Illustrative Approximate Sample Sizes for Estimates of Scientists and Engineers: NSF SESTAT, March CPS, ACS Total scientists and engineers -- 12 million: Sample size SESTAT: 100,000 Sample size CPS (l mod.: Sample size ACS (12 mos)
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