Table of Contents:
  • Design specifications
  • Survey objectives
  • Domain and precision considerations
  • Operational requirements
  • Sample design
  • Sampling rates
  • Calculation of screening amounts and sampling rates to achieve a self-weighting sample within each domain
  • Final sampling rates
  • Departures from a self-weighting sample
  • Sampling rate modifications for the NHANES 2009-2010 sample
  • Stratification and selection of PSUs
  • Calculation of PSU measures of size
  • Minimum measures of size
  • Selection of certainty PSUs
  • Stratification and selection of non-certainty PSUs
  • Selection of non-certainty PSUs
  • Allocation of PSUs to time period
  • Targeted number of sampled persons in each PSU
  • Selection of segments
  • Stratification within PSUs
  • Measure of size of segments
  • Number of segments and their probability of selection
  • Minimum measure of size of segments
  • Controlling sample size per PSU
  • Selection of dwelling units and persons
  • Within segment sampling rates
  • Selection of sample persons
  • Special samples
  • Examination session subsamples
  • Examination and laboratory subsamples.