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Weighting Procedures for Dual Frame Telephone Surveys: A Case Study in Egypt
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Abstract Although it is a quick and non-expensive tool used to collect survey data in Egypt, the landline telephone surveys cannot reach the
non-landline households, which makes up 73.4 percent of the households in Egypt according to the 2012/2013 Egypt - Household
Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Surv... view more
Although it is a quick and non-expensive tool used to collect survey data in Egypt, the landline telephone surveys cannot reach the
non-landline households, which makes up 73.4 percent of the households in Egypt according to the 2012/2013 Egypt - Household
Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Survey (HIECS). Therefore, among other centers, the Public Opinion Poll Center (POPC)
adopted the dual frame telephone surveys as an alternative to the landline telephone surveys, in which the landline sample is
supplemented by a Pseudo-Random-Digit-Dial (Pseudo-RDD) sample of cell phones. The cell phone sample can reach the cell-only
households (households with no landline but are accessible by cell phone), about 66.7 percent, based on the 2012/2013 Egypt
HIECS data; this contributes to reducing the potential coverage bias due to not covering these households in the landline telephone
surveys. Although both are telephone samples, different weighting procedures may apply for each sample. Moreover, the
overlapping between the two sampling frame should be properly identified and adjusted in the weighting procedures. In this paper,
sampling design and weighting procedures for the dual frame telephone surveys in Egypt will be discussed. Data from the Current
Issues Survey, conducted by the POPC in October 2014, will be used as a case study to illustrate the weighting procedures and to
support our discussions.... view less
Keywords
sample; survey; weighting; cell phone; telephone interview; Egypt; data capture
Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 1-11
Journal
Survey Methods: Insights from the Field (2015)
Issue topic
Weighting: Practical Issues and ‘How to’ Approach
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13094/SMIF-2015-00005
ISSN
2296-4754
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works