Nonresponse in Household Interview SurveysA comprehensive framework for both reduction of nonresponse andpostsurvey adjustment for nonresponse This book provides guidance and support for survey statisticianswho need to develop models for postsurvey adjustment fornonresponse, and for survey designers and practitioners attemptingto reduce unit nonresponse in household interview surveys. Itpresents the results of an eight-year research program that hasassembled an unprecedented data set on respondents andnonrespondents from several major household surveys in the UnitedStates. Within a comprehensive conceptual framework of influences onnonresponse, the authors investigate every aspect of surveycooperation, from the influences of household characteristics andsocial and environmental factors to the interaction betweeninterviewers and householders and the design of the surveyitself. Nonresponse in Household Interview Surveys: * Provides a theoretical framework for understanding and studyinghousehold survey nonresponse * Empirically explores the individual and combined influences ofseveral factors on nonresponse * Presents chapter introductions, summaries, and discussions onpractical implications to clarify concepts and theories * Supplies extensive references for further study and inquiry Nonresponse in Household Interview Surveys is an important resourcefor professionals and students in survey methodology/researchmethods as well as those who use survey methods or data inbusiness, government, and academia. It addresses issues critical todealing with nonresponse in surveys, reducing nonresponse duringsurvey data collection, and constructing statistical compensationsfor the effects of nonresponse on key survey estimates. |
Contents
An Introduction to Survey Participation | 1 |
A Conceptual Framework for Survey Participation | 25 |
Data Resources for Testing Theories of Survey Participation | 47 |
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Analysis attributes Census Bureau Chapter characteristics Coefficients Consumer Expenditure Survey contact rates controls cooperation rates correlates crime rates Current Population Survey data collection decennial census decision design features effects estimates examine example face-to-face surveys gaining cooperation groups higher Household Survey household-level householder behavior housing unit incentives indicators influences inter interaction interviewer behavior interviewer experience interviewer-level likelihood logistic models logistic regression measures multilevel models multiunit structures multivariate noncontact nonresponse error nonresponse rates NSHS number of calls participation decision percentage physical impediments population density postsurvey adjustment predictors quartile questionnaire questions refusal rates response rates sample household sample persons sample units script single-person households social environment social environmental socio-demographic sponse standard errors Statistical Statistics Sweden survey cooperation survey design survey interview Survey Nonresponse survey participation survey request Survey Research Table tailoring telephone surveys tend terviewer tion trends U.S. Bureau U.S. Census Bureau uncontacted variables versus viewer