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CBSA<br />

DU<br />

ev<br />

GEM<br />

Half step<br />

Household-level<br />

<strong>Person</strong> count<br />

IQR<br />

MSA<br />

List of Terms <strong>and</strong> Abbreviations<br />

Core-based statistical area.<br />

<strong>Dwelling</strong> unit.<br />

Extreme value. See Sections 5.1 <strong>and</strong> 5.2 for more detail.<br />

Generalized exponential model. See Chapter 3 for more detail.<br />

This refers to halving the increment in the Newton-Raphson iterative<br />

process for fitting GEM.<br />

The number of pairs associated with a given domain in a given household.<br />

These counts are used as control totals in the poststratification step. See<br />

Chapter 6 for details on how these counts are created, <strong>and</strong> Chapter 4 for<br />

details on their use in poststratification.<br />

Interquartile range.<br />

Metropolitan statistical area.<br />

Multiplicity factor The number of pairs associated with a given respondent in a given domain.<br />

See Chapter 6 for more detail.<br />

nr<br />

Nonresponse.<br />

Outwinsor The proportion of weights trimmed after extreme value adjustment via<br />

winsorization.<br />

<strong>Pair</strong> domain A pair relationship where the target population is defined by one of the pair<br />

members, conditional on the attributes of the other pair member.<br />

<strong>Pair</strong> relationship The relationship between selected pair members.<br />

Parent-child A pair relationship where either both pair members identify the other as part<br />

of a parent-child relationship, or both pair members otherwise are<br />

determined to form a parent-child pair (either through other evidence or<br />

through imputation).<br />

PMN<br />

Predictive mean neighborhood.<br />

ps<br />

Poststratification.<br />

QDU<br />

<strong>Questionnaire</strong> dwelling unit: a household where at least one member<br />

responded to the questionnaire.<br />

res.pr.nr Respondent pair nonresponse adjustment step. See Section 7.3.3 for more<br />

detail.<br />

res.qdu.nr Respondent questionnaire dwelling unit nonresponse adjustment step. See<br />

Section 7.2.3 for more detail.<br />

res.pr.ev<br />

Respondent pair extreme value adjustment step. See Section 7.3.5 for more<br />

detail.<br />

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