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. 2004;13(2):69-92.
doi: 10.1002/mpr.167.

The US National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R): design and field procedures

Ronald C Kessler  1 , Patricia Berglund, Wai Tat Chiu, Olga Demler, Steven Heeringa, Eva Hiripi, Robert Jin, Beth-Ellen Pennell, Ellen E Walters, Alan Zaslavsky, Hui Zheng
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The US National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R): design and field procedures

Ronald C Kessler et al. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res. 2004.

Abstract

The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) is a survey of the prevalence and correlates of mental disorders in the US that was carried out between February 2001 and April 2003. Interviews were administered face-to-face in the homes of respondents, who were selected from a nationally representative multi-stage clustered area probability sample of households. A total of 9,282 interviews were completed in the main survey and an additional 554 short non-response interviews were completed with initial non-respondents. This paper describes the main features of the NCS-R design and field procedures, including information on fieldwork organization and procedures, sample design, weighting and considerations in the use of design-based versus model-based estimation. Empirical information is presented on non-response bias, design effect, and the trade-off between bias and efficiency in minimizing total mean-squared error of estimates by trimming weights.

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