LIBRARY REFERENCE USPS-LR-I-230
DOCKET NO. R2000-1
MATERIAL PROVIDED IN RESPONSE TO UPS/USPS-T523
(HUNTER)
United States Postal Service
Material Provided in Response to UPS/USPS-T523 (Hunter)
Contents
General .........................................................
Construction of Blow-Up Factors .....................................
1
Aopendix A
Permit Imprint First-Class Mail ........................................
1
Postage Aftixed FCM and Standard Mail (A) .............................
2
Periodicals .......................................................
3
Permit Imprint Standard Mail (A). .....................................
4
Permit Imprint Parcel Post ..........................................
5
Permit Imprint Bound Printed Matter ...................................
6
Material Provided in Response to UPS/USPS-T523 (Hunter)
BRPW Blow-Up Factors
General.
This document explains how the blow-up factors used in the BRPW for the nonautomated office panel are constructed. The BRPW statistical system and
methodology is documented in library reference USPS-LR-I-26/R2000-1.
Construction of Factors.
For the FY 1998 period, the BRPW utilizes five independently selected nonautomated office panels to supplement the automated office data obtained from
the PERMIT System. Under the BRPW methodology, a non-automated office
panel corresponds to a targeted indicia and mail class or subclass combination.
The five targeted mail categories are: permit imprint FCM and Priority Mail,
Periodicals, permit imprint Standard Mail (A), postage affixed FCM & Standard
Mail (A), and permit imprint Bound Printed Matter. For the FY 1998 period, a
sixth panel comprised of automated oftices, adjusted for residual non-automated
office activity, is used for the permit imprint Parcel Post mail category.
For each targeted population. a frame of post offices is constructed from a
census of non-automated office census conducted for a recent postal quarter or
year. Only oftices reporting non-zero revenue for the targeted mail category are
retained in the frame. Except for the permit imprint Parcel Post panel, the frame
is partitioned into a minimum of four strata. A random sample of offices is then
selected within each stratum subject to minimum and maximum overall size
constraints. The overall size for a panel is based on administrative workload and
targeted precision considerations, and is allocated to the strata using Neyman
allocation.
The blow-ups are developed by inverting the sampling fractions. A sampling
fraction is the ratio of the sample size to the population size (count) for a stratum.
Since it is known that the automated office coverage is significant (approximately
99 percent) for the permit imprint Parcel Post category, a panel is not needed for
this mail category. However, to account for related residual non-automated
office activity, the ratio of total revenue (automated and non-automated oftices)
to automated office only revenue obtained from a recent census is applied to the
automated office distribution of revenue and volume obtained for the FY 1998
period. For the FY 1998 period, the ratio of 1.0092075 obtained from a PQ2,
FY1997, census is used.
The summary reports provided in Appendix A identify the sample (NHSAMP) and
strata population (NH) sizes required to construct the blow-up factors used in the
BRPW for the FY 1998 period. The total sample size and population count for
each panel are also provided.
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