The Impact of Nonresponse Rates on Nonresponse Bias: A Meta-Analysis
Year: 2008
Type: article
Study designs: Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis
Abstract: Fifty-nine methodological studies were designed to estimate the magnitude of nonresponse bias in statistics of interest. These studies use a variety of designs: sampling frames with rich variables, data from administrative records matched to sample case, use of screening-interview data to describe nonrespondents to main interviews, followup of nonrespondents to initial phases of field effort, and measures of behavior intentions to respond to a survey. This permits exploration of which circumstances produce a relationship between nonresponse rates and nonresponse bias and which, do not. The predictors are design features of the surveys, characteristics of the sample, and attributes of the survey statistics computed in the surveys.
Source: Public Opinion Quarterly
DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfn011
Authors: R. M. Groves, E. Peytcheva
Institution: University of Michigan
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2138706729