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Docket
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No.
MC96-3
OFFICE OF THE CONSUMER ADVOCATE
INTERROGATORIES TO UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
(OCA/USPS-48-561
(August
22, 1996)
Pursuant
the
Postal
hereby
Rate
submits
documents.
the
to
united
incorporated
sections
Commission,
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interrogatories
Instructions
States
Postal
Office
the
of
Rules
the
and requests
included
with
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dated
of
Practice
Consumer
for
Advocate
production
OCA Interrogatories
June
19,
1996,
GAIL WILLETTE
Director
Office
of the
are
submitted,
Consumer
of
l-4
by reference.
Respectfully
of
Advocate
hereby
to
Docket
No.
MC96-3
OCA/USPS-48.
Please
Development
FY 1995
2
of
provide
Costs
(library
the
Summary
by Segments
references
Descripticsn
and Components
SSR-1
of
for
and SSR-123)
in
USPS
FY 1994
and
electronic
form.
OCA/USPS-49.
Please
OCA/USPS-T5-13.
table
is
1995
IOCS data
two
totals
to
number
842,785
This
for
Please
confirm
based
weighting
If
response
to
of
unweighted
tallies
listed
to
page
SSR-22,
the
that
are
you
the
the
11 of
Please
the
in
FY
explain
that
the
why
of
costs
you
confirm,
of
to
advantage
is
that
activities
please
please
the
provided
rates
in
for
explain.
cost
based
using
the
IOCS estimates.
major
methodology
rates
sampling
confirm,
refers
FY 1995
sampling
weekly
do not
interrogatory
estimation
do not
the
observations.
confirm
offices.
used
2 to
differ.
OCA/USPS-T5-13b
OCA/USPS-51.
weighting
has
Please
IOCS sample
a.
set
Attachment
According
842,761.
OCA/USPS-50.
response
to
The total
that
these
refer
explain.
it
of
simplifies
measured
by the
the
cost
direct
IOCS.
If
Docket
b.
No.
MC96-3
Witness
Ellard's
provides
is
step
3
the
library
typical
steps
"computation
necessary
If
in
of
for
documented?
reference
this
survey
design
the
SSR-111
weighting.
or
base
was not
51)
The first
weights."
IOCS weighting?
step
(page
If
stage
Was such
so,
necessary,
where
is
please
a
it
explain
why not.
C.
Suppose
one wanted
(person-weeks,
particular
i.
confirm
cost
Please
such
iii.
of
the
amount
spent
is
of
employee
performing
a different
that
time
a
IOCS data
can
If
you
do not
confirm
that
the
weighting
may not
If
proportions.
do not
are
equivalent.
confirm,
one wanted
proportion
of
you
to
please
employees
confirm,
confirm,
factors
expand
be used
the
would
explain
do not
develop
please
explain.
used
for
to
estimating
please
explain
how
be constructed.
why cost
IOCS tallies
potentially
to
factors
be appropriate
you
weighting
you
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than
explain.
that
costs
estimate
activity.
estimates.
appropriate
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this
performing
please
estimate
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confirm
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time
the
activity.
confirm,
ii.
estimate
person-hours,
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the
to
to
accessible
and
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time
estimate
only
by
Docket
No.
MC96-3
telephone
would
4
for
IOCS readings.
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dockets
prior
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to
Can such
please
the
explain
to
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it
or
the
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cost
design
based
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(SSR-90,
variance
Tr.
pages
of
No.
l/56-58
Docket
OCA/USPS-31a
asks
were
to
applied
confirmed,
a.
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the
telephone
based
readings
in
IOCS weighting.
from
IOCS data?
FY 1995
If
so,
IOCS weighting
to
use
the
design
factors
for
based
this
weights
type
of
are
would
and to
for
R94-1,
FY 1995
the
C.V.
please
FY 1993
June
1,
that
1994.
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of
the
IOCS estimates
these
estimates.
for
estimates
documentation
the
confirmation
FY 1995
appropriate,
be constructed.
the
to
more
at
Interrogatory
variance
formulas
OCA/USPS-31a
is
then:
CAG A/B
(Attachment
variance
for
estimates
estimates.
weights
18-20)
formulas
these
explain.
refer
estimation
the
weighting
how they
Please
OCA/USPS-52.
cost
use
these
based
of
be formed
how to
Please
explain
to
appropriate
more
estimate?
iii.
change
form
example,
estimates
an estimate
factors
ii.
with
For
do not
1 to
formula
constitute
the
response
for
certainty
certainty
to
strata
for
OCA/USPS-T5-13),
is
strata
(Tr.
l/5,7)
still
FY 1995
the
Docket
b.
No.
MC96-3
5
correct?
If
corrected
formula
it
no longer
and SSR-90
please
confirm
that
variance
formula
would
be to
Please
refer
to
i.
ii.
the
strata
l/57.
that
variance
of
a proportion
design.
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you
Please
confirm
that
sample
designs
(with
For
offices).
size,
confirm,
W.
the
(1977).
for
formula
would
Sampling
please
the
a cluster
for
cluster
selected
terms-ne
capturing
(offices)
and one
(tallies
subsampling
within
with
be
3rd
Ed.,
sample
explain.
explain.
Techniques,
R94-1
the
within
clusters
example,l
please
for
formulas
clusters
the
variance.
from
subsampling
within
using
represents
confirm,
two
the
no longer
of
var(pi,,)
variance
the
it
effect
formula
have
variance
If
estimate
do not
between
capturing
equal
this
generally
variance
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Tr.
confirm
provide
understate
for
Please
clusters)
the
formula
at
please
tables.
applies,
noncertainty
' See
applies,
page
279
units
of
Docket
No.
MC96-3
iii.
6
Please
confirm
strata
is
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only
the
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introduced
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defined
k th craft
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fully.
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provide
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explain
you
confirm,
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actual
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of
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term.
please
you
error
offices
is
confirm
that
the
variance
term
is
do not
confirm,
for
the
please
formula
l/57.
No.
estimated)
R94-1,
cost
June
1,
1994,
C,
with
the
associated
(CAG) and postal
(quarter.
a.
Please
provide
the
values
of
these
costs
for
FY 1995.
b.
Please
provide
the
values
of
these
costs
for
each
office
for
FY 1995.
l/57
with
selected
you
Docket
stratum
clusters
reference
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at
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with
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non-certainty
selection).
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between
variance.
explain
OCA/USPS-53.
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for.
of
for
variance
please
understate
used
formula
by subsampling
accounted
to
the
the
selection)
(employee
E, n,jz/[nk/mk32
confirm,
for
(office
office
that
captures
effect
sample
within
confirm
do not
IOCS sampling
a cluster
subsampling
iv.
that
sample
Docket
No.
MC96-3
Please
C.
of
7
provide
this
costs
analogous
interrogatory,
but
to
those
estimated
provided
using
in
cost
part
(b)
weighted
IOCS data.
OCA/USPS-54.
This
interrogatory
advanced
sample
in
a.
Please
from
refer
to
states,
CAG C or
was drawn.
the
response
"One hundred
lower
Fifty
to
(50)
to
OCA/USPS-TS-14.
eighteen
(115)
CAG B or A since
of
these
offices
offices
the
[FY 19931
were
in
the
sample
FY 1993."
Please
1993
confirm
are
in
that
the
the
FY 1995
please
provide
a list
in
FY 1995
sample.
the
from
the
50 offices
that
sample.
If
these
offices
of
For
each
of
FY 1995
sample,
please
finance
numbers
correspond
were
you
in
do not
sample
which
offices
include
the
are
excluded
reason
for
its
exclusion.
b.
How many
C.
Please
that
confirm
were
"certainty
of
that
not
in
the
strata"
selection
for
confirm,
please
sample
selection
the
68
to
(118-50)
FY 1993
these
50 offices?
CAG C or
sample
but
the
list
FY 1995
IOCS sample.
each
the
68 offices
for
the
probability
of
lower
advanced
(CAGS A and B) by FY 1995
If
FY 1995
FY
confirm,
indicating
the
in
offices
to
had no chance
you
along
office
do not
with
its
sample.
Docket
d.
No.
MC96-3
Other
than
there
any
not
of
any
chance
f.
LT.
the
any
please
list
the
reason
for
the
and describe
problems
associated
Does
FY 1995
offices
coincide
of
offices
explain.
from
with
in
reason
strata"
offices,
are
strata"
that
Please
provide
that
each
the
known
with
it.
sampled
which
strata
of
are
a
them
from
office
the
office
office
information
that
sampling
frame
for
no
were
had no
sample?
CAG designations,
the
frame
had
sample,
IOCS office
their
sampling
any
that
IOCS office
FY 1995
absence
target
offices
FY 1995
offices,
which
about
the
noncertainty
office
the
IOCS sample?
list
the
the
their
sample
of
in
these
define
"certainty
"certainty
in
Please
lower
sample.
selection
so,
the
and
selection
offices
CAG C or
FY 1995
in
to
for
the
in
offices
included
for
there
offices
in
addition
chance
68 FY 1993
other
such
was not
In
these
included
count
e.
8
If
and
frame.
the
inadequacy
FY 1995
or
coverage
population
(the
sample
was selected)
population
(the
was sought)?
population
population
Please
IOCS
Docket
No.
MC96-3
OCA/USPS-55.
of
office
in
the
9
For
CAG C and lower
selection
for
same CAG?
OCA/USPS-56.
the
Please
Please
This
finance
504 were
numbers,
FY 1995
are
IOCS the
the
probabilities
same for
all
offices
explain.
refer
OCA/USPS-TS-13.
offices,
to
Attachment
attachment
in
shows
the
1 to
the
response
of
the
600 CAG A/B
that
FY 1995
IOCS sample
and
to
96 were
not.
a.
Please
confirm
sampling
frame
FY 1995
sample
selection
Please
were
C.
for
the
for
the
confirm
not
in
If
the
Of the
finance
numbers
each
finance
FY 1995
provide
For
do not
for
25235
please
sample,
you
FY 1995
number,
its
sample
frame.
finance
number
from
the
selection
please
these
in
list
were
number,
reason
not
the
sample.
CAG C-K finance
If
you
in
the
for
selection
please
list
for
the
finance
do not
numbers
confirm,
figure.
that
CAG, and the
of
of
IOCS sample.
correct
absent
confirm,
each
(25331-96)
how many had no chance
such
numbers
had no chance
probability
that
the
96 finance
FY 1995
IOCS sample.
numbers
b.
that
its
FY 1995
for
the
absence
IOCS
FY 1996?
finance
from
the
Docket
d.
No.
MC96-3
Please
define
1995
e.
10
the
IOCS sample
coverage
problems
Does
FY 1995
the
population
sample
of
information
(the
number
and describe
sampled
finance
finance
coincide
was sought)?
known
with
numbers
population
sampling
any
associated
was selected)
population
finance
of
frame
for
the
FY
inadequacy
or
it.
number
population
from
which
with
the
finance
Please
frame
the
target
numbers
explain.
finance
finance
about
(the
number
number
which
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document
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certify
all
with
that
I have
participants
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this
date
of
record
of
the
in
served
this
special
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Attorney
Washington,
August
22,
D.C.
1996
20268-0002
the
foregoing
proceeding
rules
of
in
practice.