Handbook of nonresponse in household surveys /

• Main Author: Bethlehem, Jelke G.
• Other Authors: Cobben, Fannie, 1979-, Schouten, Barry, 1971-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2011]
• Series: Wiley handbooks in survey methodology.
• Subjects: Household surveys > Response rate.; Nonresponse (Statistics); REFERENCE > Research.; Electronic books.

This volume presents an all-inclusive guide to the problem of nonresponse in household surveys, providing an overview of the theory while also describing practical implications. The book begins with a general overview of the nonresponse problem, outlining existing sources of error and guidelines for...

Table of Contents:

• The nonresponse problem
• Basic theoretical concepts
• Reducing nonresponse
• Nonresponse and the mode of data collection
• Analysis of nonresponse
• An international comparison of nonresponse
• Nonresponse and representativity
• Weighting adjustment techniques
• Selection of auxiliary variables
• Re-approaching nonrespondents
• The use of response propensities
• Analysis and adjustment accounting for the cause of nonresponse
• Adaptive survey designs
• Item nonresponse
• Miscellaneous topics.