Can Administrative Records Be Used to Reduce Nonresponse Bias?
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
One option for addressing the bias that may result from survey nonresponse is to make greater use of the administrative records that federal and state agencies compile. Such records have been used to assess response bias but less often to correct for such error. Direct substitution of administrative records for survey data, as is done for income data in Canada, provides a means of compensating for survey nonresponse; but the limitations of such data must be recognized. Administrative records may not cover the entire population of interest, may utilize a different unit of observation, may have wide variation in data quality across items or by agency, and may have timeliness issues. In using administrative records, researchers cede control over the content of individual variables, which may differ from survey concepts and be subject to change. Furthermore, privacy protections embodied in law restrict the use of many types of administrative records.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it