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130th CNSTAT Meeting Public Seminar "Combining Information from Survey and Non-Survey Data Sources for Policy Research: Challenges and Opportunities" May 6, 2016 Abstract: Social media, electronic health records, credit card transactional and administrative data, web scraping, and numerous other ways of collecting information have changed the landscape for addressing policy-relevant research questions. At the same time, traditional sources of data for policy-relevant research, such as large-scale surveys, have suffered setbacks due to increasing nonresponse and data collection costs. The non-survey data usually contain detailed information on certain behaviors for a large number of individuals (such as all credit card transactions) but very little background information (such as important covariates to address the policy-relevant question). In contrast, the survey data may contain detailed information on covariates but not on the behaviors. Both data sources are likely imperfect for the target population. Combining information from multiple data sources may allow us to draw inferences that extend beyond the individual components. We outline some proposed statistical methods for combining information from multiple data sources, discuss their limitations and challenges, and identify areas for future research. We provide a case-study of analyzing health care costs by developing an explicit modeling framework to construct inferences for various “building block” parameters and using them to dissect costs as a function of covariates and health conditions. AGENDA Presentations Combining Information from Survey and Non-Survey Data Sources for Policy Research: Challenges and Opportunities Sharon Lohr, Westat Combining Information from Survey and Non-Survey Data Sources: Analysis of Health Care Costs Trivellore Raghunathan, University of Michigan Discussants Discussion by Thomas Louis, Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Discussion by Linda Young, Director of Research and Development, National Agricultural Statistics Service |
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