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Objectives The Research and Development Survey (RANDS) is a series of web-based, commercial panel surveys that have been conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) since 2015. RANDS was designed for methodological research purposes,including supplementing NCHS' evaluation of surveys and questionnaires to detect measurement error, and exploring methods to integrate data from commercial survey panels with high-quality data collections to improve survey estimation. The latter goal of improving survey estimation is in response to limitations of web surveys, including coverage and nonresponse bias. To address the potential bias in estimates from RANDS,NCHS has investigated various calibration weighting methods to adjust the RANDS panel weights using one of NCHS' national household surveys, the National Health Interview Survey. This report describes calibration weighting methods and the approaches used to calibrate weights in web-based panel surveys at NCHS.
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