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Adaptive Design Treatments
Production
START
New
Cohort?
Yes
No
Week 1
(2/7/19)
Incentive
Case?
Incentive
Case?
N/A
No
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Web
Invite w/$
Mail Web
Invite
Mail Web
Invite w/$
Mail Web
Invite
Because NSCG did not
conduct up front locating
this cycle, interactive
locating will start sooner.
Mail First
Preference?
No
Week 2
(2/14/19)
Yes
Incentive?
Mail Web
Invite w/Q and
Incentive
Language
Mail Web
Invite
CATI First Cases:
(2017, 2015, or
2013 ACS CATI
responder and
2017 NSCG CATI
Responder and
mode pref not
web or mail) OR
(2017 CATI mode
preference)
Week 3.5
(2/26/19)
Week 5
(3/7/19)
Week 6
(3/14/19)
Week 5.5
(3/12/19)
CATI First Cases
no mail until
week 12 NRFU
Mail
Reminder
Postcard
(1) Activating cases early in CATI
(2) Put cases in CATI on hold
(3) Sending a questionnaire early
(1) Withhold reminder letter
(2) Withhold email reminder (week 5.5)
(3) Activating cases early in CATI
(4) Put cases on hold in CATI
(5) Sending a questionnaire early
(1) Withhold reminder postcard
(2) Withhold email reminder (week 6.5)
(3) Activating cases early in CATI
(4) Put cases on hold in CATI
(5) Take cases off hold in CATI
(6) Sending a questionnaire early
Email Reminder
(Old Cohort with Email on file)
Week 8
(3/28/19)
Week 6.5
(3/19/19)
For bad address cases,
if an address is found
in locating, the case
moves to the web first
path.
CATI FIRST
begins
Email Reminder
(Old Cohort with Email on file)
(1) Replace questionnaire with only web invite
(2) Withhold web invite and questionnaire
(3) Activating cases early in CATI
(4) Put cases on hold in CATI
(5) Take cases off hold in CATI
Mail Web Invite
w/
Questionnaire
(1) Withhold email reminder
Email Reminder
(Old Cohort with Email on file)
Week 12
(4/25/19)
Week 10
(4/11/19)
N/A
Interactive Locating
(1) Withhold reminder letter
(2) Put cases on hold in CATI
(3) Take cases off hold in CATI
(4) Send off‐path questionnaire
Mail Web
Invite
Yes
New
cohort?
(1) Withhold reminder letter
(2) Put cases on hold in CATI
(3) Take cases off hold in CATI
(4) Send off‐path questionnaire
No
Mail Web
Invite
Yes
Mail Web
Invite w/
Questionnaire
No
Mail Web
Invite
(1) Replace questionnaire with only web invite
(2) Withhold web invite and questionnaire
(3) Put cases on hold in CATI
(4) Take cases off hold in CATI
(1) Replace questionnaire with only web invite
(2) Withhold web invite and questionnaire
(3) Put cases on hold in CATI
(4) Take cases off hold in CATI
Mail Web
Invite w/
Questionnaire
Week 23
(7/11/19)
Non‐
Respondent?
CATI NRFU
Week 18
(6/6/19)
Week 16
(5/23/19)
Phone Tree
Reminder
CATI First
Week 20
(6/20/19)
Yes
If a case has a UAA w/
o address correction
weeks 3.5‐12, it
moves to locating. If
no address is found, it
stays in CATI first.
Mail Web
Reminder
Week 23.5
(7/16/19)
N/A
Mail Web
Invite w/Q
Cati First or Tie Case or no
valid US address or UAA w/o
address correction?
No
End
(8/8/19)
No
Yes
Mail Web
Invite w/
Incentive
Language
Week 2.5
(2/19/19)
Incentive?
No
Yes
Mail Web
Invite
(1) Withhold reminder letter
(2) Put cases on hold in CATI
(3) Take cases off hold in CATI
(1) Withhold email reminder
Email Reminder
(Old Cohort with Email on file)
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