Coverage & Selection Bias

Feb 14, 2023

Undercoverage ocurs when some households or persons have no chance to participate in data collection or no probability of selection.

My dissertation explored undercoverage in face-to-face household surveys in the US.

Stephanie Eckman
Stephanie Eckman
Researcher & Data Scientist

I collect high quality data for social science and model training

Publications

Undercoverage Rates and Undercoverage Bias in Traditional Housing Unit Listing
Many face-to-face surveys use field staff to create lists of housing units from which samples are selected. However, housing unit …
Stephanie Eckman, Frauke Kreuter
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Performance of the Half-Open Interval Missed Housing Unit Procedure
The half-open interval procedure seems to offer an inexpensive method of reducing undercoverage in housing unit frames during data …
Stephanie Eckman, Colm O'Muircheartaigh
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Confirmation Bias in Housing Unit Listing
Using an experimental repeated listing design, this article demonstrates the presence of confirmation bias in dependent housing unit …
Stephanie Eckman, Frauke Kreuter
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Does the Inclusion of Non-Internet Households in a Web Panel Reduce Coverage Bias?
The LISS online panel has made extra efforts to recruit and retain households that were not regular users of the internet into the …
Stephanie Eckman
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Events

Using Computer Vision to Detect Housing Units from Satellite Imagery
We draw upon recent advances in computer vision algorithms and in the availability and resolution of geospatial big data to improve the …
Aug 3, 2020 12:00 PM virtual
Stephanie Eckman
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Detecting Housing Units from Satellite Imagery with Computer Vision
We draw upon recent advances in computer vision algorithms and in the availability and resolution of geospatial big data to improve the …
May 17, 2019 8:30 AM Toronto, Ontario
Stephanie Eckman, Qiang Qiu
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