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To produce the Consumer Price Index, the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects information on people’s living expenses and purchases they make through the Consumer Expenditure Survey. If the Bureau of Labor Statistics could obtain some of your purchases from a credit card company instead of asking you on a questionnaire would you be strongly in favor of it, somewhat in favor of it, neither in favor nor against it, somewhat against it, or strongly against it?
Strongly in favor of it Somewhat in favor of it Neither in favor nor against it Somewhat against it Strongly against it
Attitudes and Opinions
On Statistics
Keywords: Record Linkage
FSS POMS
Evaluation Report
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Cognitive Interview Evaluation of the Federal Statistical System Public Opinion Monitoring Survey Round 2, Focus on Administrative Record Linkage Questions

Collaborating Center for Questionnaire Design Evaluation and Research
6/17/2015
Cognitive Interview
3/2012
IRS NASS NCHS OMB
Citation: Willson, S., Scanlon, P. (2015). Cognitive Interview Evaluation of the Federal Statistical System Public Opinion Monitoring Survey Round 2, Focus on Administrative Record Linkage Questions. National Center for Health Statistics. Hyattsville, MD. https://wwwn.cdc.gov/QBank/Report.aspx?1141
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Abstract: This report documents results from a second round of cognitive interviewing of the Federal Statistical System Public Opinion Monitoring Survey (FSS POMS). This survey represents an effort to understand public opinions and knowledge of the FSS, specifically, trust in the FSS, the credibility of federal statistics, and attitudes toward and knowledge of the statistical uses of survey linkage to administrative records. To this end, a working group was formed to design and implement a cross-agency survey of public attitudes about federal statistics and statistical agencies. The working group consisted of members from Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Census Bureau, National Agricultural Statistics Services (NASS), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The first round of testing focused on general attitudes about and trust in the FSS and federal statistics. The second round of testing, the topic of this report, focused on questions about administrative record linkage. The goal of the questions is to measure respondents’ attitudes toward the federal government linking to various administrative records such as medical records, credit card records, and records from the Social Security Administration. Not all questions were analyzed for this report. Section one includes findings for questions 15, 16, 25, and R1 – R6, which were asked separately (and slightly differently) for Census, BLS and NCHS. The second section of the report covers question 8 – 11. These questions presented respondents with different messages regarding the general concepts of administrative data use and data sharing and were not intended to be fielded in the actual survey. Rather, they were included as a qualitative exploration to better understand respondents’ thoughts on privacy and confidentiality pertaining to federal statistics and data sharing.