• Survey Research
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.55-69
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• 2008

In most telephone surveys in Korea, telephone numbers are selected from the directories. Inevitably, such samples may lack representativeness due to poor coverage rate. To resolve the problem, Kang et al.(2008) implemented RDD(random digit dialing) method for nationwide sampling in Korea. The aim of this study is to compare an RDD sample with a traditional telephone quota sample that were collected independently by two survey institutes commissioned by the KBS-MBC consortium for the 2007 Presidential Election of Korea.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.6B
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• pp.1143-1152
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• 2000

As being various user telephone number after entry of new telecommunication enterprise, management of systematic Directory Assistance Service is required. Also through providing competition of Directory Assistances Service, enhancement of Service quality and development of new Service are induced. In this study, there is researched the overall view of present Directory Assistance Service in priority Korean Telecom and the oversea's Directory Assistance Service for U.S.A, England, Australia, Japan. As result of study, we want to suggest the appointment of unified Directory Database Management Company and outsourcing of Directory Assistance Service to that company but in reality, there may be other idea also with regard to various circumstances.

• Survey Research
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-22
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• 2008

Telephone directories ille still being used as the sampling frame in almost all fixed-line telephone surveys in Korea, causing potentially serious coverage error. RDD (random digit dialing) sampling is an obvious alternative to solve the problem. The aim of this paper is twofold: 1) proposal of RDD methodology suitable to the telephone system of Korea and 2) the identification of socio-demographic and socio-psychological differences between listed-number and unlisted-number respondents. Major findings of RDD telephone survey conducted experimental]y are as follows. 1) Population coverage by telephone directories is 60% or less. 2) Unlisted-number households have statistically larger income compared to listed-number households. 3) Unlisted-number households have smaller family size compared to listed-number households. 4) Unlisted-number respondents are more sensitive about confidentiality, leaks, 5) Unlisted-number respondents are more liberal compared to unlisted-number respondents. These facts suggest that directory-based telephone surveys tend to be biased in socio-economic aspects.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1992.10a
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• pp.51-61
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• 1992

전자전화번호부 서비스는 HiTEL단말기 및 기존의 PC를 소유한 가입자의 전화번호 관련문의에 대해 신속, 정확한 정보를 제공하는 비디오텍스 응용시스팀으로서 통신처리시스팀, 서비스검색시스팀, 화일관리시스팀으로 나뉠 수 있다. 전화번호화일은 가입자에 따라 인명부, 업종상호부로 나뉘어 CISAM 방식의 화일로 구현하였으며, 상호인 경우 1:N 필드관계를 지원하여 하나의 전화번호에 대해 다수 업종의 지원이 가능하다. 전화가입자의 일일 변동자료의 처리및 화일의 갱신에 대해 소개하고자 한다.

• Survey Research
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.77-88
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• 2011

Korean telephone surveys have been based on telephone directory and thus criticized for considerable under-coverage. Now, Korean survey institutions progress to random digit dialing (RDD) very actively. But still most surveys are administered by quota sampling, prone to assign heavier weights to social classes with more hours staying indoor. As a practical remedy, time-balanced quota sampling scheme was proposed by Huh and Hwang (2006). This study compares two telephone surveys on TV audience environment in Korea: RDD with conventional quota sampling versus RDD with time-balanced quota sampling.

• Survey Research
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.135-158
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• 2012

Korean telephone surveys have been based on landline telephone directory or RDD(Random Digit Dialing) method. These days, however, there has been an increase of the households with no landline, or households with the line but not willing to register in the directory. Moreover, it is hard to contact young people or office workers who are usually staying out of home in the daytime. Due to these issues above, the predictability of election polls gets weaker. Especially, low accessibility to those who stay out of home when the poll's done, results in predictions with positive inclination toward conservatism. A solution to resolve this problem is to contact respondents by using both mobile and landline phones-via landline phone to those who are at home and via mobile phone to those who are out of home in the daytime(Mixed Mode Survey, hereafter MMS). To conduct MMS, 1) we need to obtain the sampling frames for the landline and mobile surveys, and 2) we need to decide the proportion of sample size of both. In this paper, we propose a heuristic method for conducting MMS. The method uses RDD for the landline phone survey, and the access panel list for the mobile phone survey. The proportion of sample sizes between landline and mobile phones are determined based on the 'Lifestyle and Time Use Study' conducted by Statistics Korea. As a case study, 4 election polls were conducted in the periods of the special election for the mayor of Seoul on Oct 26th, 2011. From the initial 3 polls, reactions and responses regarding the issues raised during the survey period were appropriately covered, and the final poll showed a very close prediction to the real election result.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.375-385
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• 2009

For 2007 Korea presidential election, most polls by telephone surveys indicated Lee Myung-Bak led the second runner-up Jung Dong-Young by certain margin. The margin between two candidates can be estimated accurately by averaging individual poll results, provided there exists no systematic bias in telephone surveys. Most Korean telephone surveys via telephone directory are based on quota samples, with the region, the gender and the age-band as quota variables. Thus the surveys may result in certain systematic bias due to unbalanced factors inherent in quota sampling. The aim of this study is to answer the following questions by the analytic methods adopted in Huh et al. (2004): Question 1. Wasn't there systematic bias in estimates of support rates. Question 2. If yes, what was the source of the bias? To answer the questions, we collected eighteen surveys administered during the election campaign period and applied the iterated proportional weighting (the rim weighting) to the last eleven surveys to obtain the balance in five factors - region, gender, age, occupation and education level. We found that the support rate of Lee Myung-Bak was over-estimated consistently by 1.4%P and that of Jung Dong-Young was underestimated by 0.6%P, resulting in the over-estimation of the margin by 2.0%P. By investigating the Lee Myung-Bak bias with logistic regression models, we conclude that it originated from the under-representation of less educated class and/or the over-representation of house wives in telephone samples.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.29-41
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• 1994

The purposes of this study are (a)to investigate the effect of follow-up on the increase of response rate;(b)to analyze the effect of follow-up on the statistics by predetermined response rates ; therefore, (c)to describe the importance of high response rate and to suggest methods in order to increase response rate in mail survey. Telephone directory of Seoul was utilized as a sampling frame, and modified Total Design Method(TDM) was applied to collect the data. The results are summarized as follows. 1. Final response rate was 76.5% by 2 follow-ups. 2. The first follow-up with telephone call had a significant effect on increase of response rate. As a result, follow-up by postcard in TDM could be omitted in this method. 3. The second follow-up by registered mail did not have a significant effect. Therefore, use of this procedure is depending upon such research situtations as importance of high response rate and cost available. 4. Follow-ups helped to make collected sample highly representative. 5. Most questionnaires were arrived on the first half of data collection period in each follow-up. 6. Most of questionnaires were collected for 10 weeks. Accumulated responses could be fitted by exponential and logistic curve, simultaneously. The fitted curve suggested that eventually limited number of questionnaires by arrived. So, if researchers want higher response rate, they have to conduct more follow-ups. 7. Statistics in the predetermined response rate were not changed significantly. But replications are needed to generalize this result.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.849-851
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• 2003

A location-based service or LBS in a cellular telephone network is a service provided to the subscriber based on his current geographic location. This position can be known by user entry or a GPS receiver that he carries with him, but most often the term implies the use of a function built into the cell network that uses the known geographic coordinates of the base stations through which the communication takes place. One implication is that knowledge of the coordinates is owned and controlled by the network operator, and not by the end user. Location utility service provides two kinds of functions, geocoder and reverse geocoder. Geocoder converts an address into a coordinate and reverse geocoder changes a coordinate into an address. Because location utility service is the first step to progress LBS, various servises such as directory, routing, presentation, and etc require to access that. In this paper, we will describe the architecture of LBS platform and the concept and the role of location utility service.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.10 no.4 s.38
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• pp.1-12
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• 1995

현재 통신망 서비스는 과거의 한 지역에 국한된 서비스 수준을 넘어 전세계 지역을 대상으로 발전되고 있으며, 그에따라 통신 설비와 그 서비스의 종류도 다양화 및 고도화 되어 가고 있다. 그러나, 각 지역의 통신 노드들은 서로 다른 형태의 정보와 시스템으로 구성되어 있기 때문에 전체 통신 노드들의 통합시 발생할 수 있는 이기종 시스템간의 상호운용(interoperability) 및 관리 문제, 분산 환경하에서의 처리 문제 및 무관성(transparency) 충족문제 등을 표준화 작업을 통하여 해결해 나가고 있다. 또한, 초기의 통신망 출현 시에는 망 자체적인 특성으로 인하여 정보의 수준이 단순하였으나, 요사이 통신망은 엄청난 수의 노드 분산화, 구성 노드의 이질화 및 복잡화는 물론이고 이러한 특성을 갖는 망 자체의 빠른 진화로 인하여 망에서 다루어야 할 정보의 종류와 가지수는 천문학적으로 증가하고 있는 실정이다. 이와 같은 현실로 인하여 정보 관리 서비스 구조에 대한 연구가 꾸준히 진행되어 1988년 국제전신전화자문회(Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone: CCITT, 이하 CCITT라 함, CCITT는 현재 ITU로 개명)에서는 전체 통신망에 존재하는 통신 관련 정보를 효율적으로 관리할 수 있는 강력한 정보 제공 시스템인 전역(global) 디렉토리 서비스에 대한 국제 표준으로 X.500 시리즈를 발표하기에 이르렀으며, 계속적인 보완작업을 통하여 1992년판 표준안이 완료되었다. 이에 본 고에서는 1992년 판 X.500 디렉토리 표준에 명시된 내용 중 정보 모델링 관점의 내용들을 발췌 분석하므로써 향후 디렉토리 정보 베이스 구축시에 가이드라인으로 사용할 수 있도록 하고자 한다.