Survey nonresponse / edited by Robert M. Groves ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Groves, Robert M.

Series:

Wiley series in probablility and statistics. Survey methodology section.

Wiley series in survey methodology. Wiley series in probability and statistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social surveys--Response rate.

Social surveys.

Data Collection--statistics & numerical data.

Medical Subjects:

Data Collection--statistics & numerical data.

Physical Description:

xv, 500 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Wiley, [2002]

Contents:

I. Perspectives on Nonresponse

1. Survey Nonresponse in Design, Data Collection, and Analysis / Don A. Dillman, John L. Eltinge, Robert M. Groves, Roderick J. A. Little 3

2. Developing Nonresponse Standards / Tom W. Smith 27

3. Trends in Household Survey Nonresponse: A Longitudinal and International Comparison / Edith de Leeuw, Wim de Heer 41

4. Culture and Survey Nonresponse / Timothy P. Johnson, Diane O'Rourke, Jane Burris, Linda Owens 55

5. To Answer or Not to Answer: Decision Processes Related to Survey Item Nonresponse / Paul Beatty, Douglas Herrmann 71

6. The Causes of No-Opinion Responses to Attitude Measures in Surveys: They Are Rarely What They Appear to Be / Jon A. Krosnick 87

II. Impacts of Survey Design on Nonresponse

7. The Influence of Interviewers' Attitude and Behavior on Household Survey Nonresponse: An International Comparison / Joop Hox, Edith de Leeuw 103

8. Persuading Reluctant Recipients in Telephone Surveys / Wil Dijkstra, Johannes H. Smit 121

9. The Effects of Extended Interviewer Efforts on Nonresponse Bias / Peter Lynn, Paul Clarke, Jean Martin, Patrick Sturgis 135

10. Effect of Item Nonresponse on Nonresponse Error and Inference / Robert Mason, Virginia Lesser, Michael W. Traugott 149

11. The Use of Incentives to Reduce Nonresponse in Household Surveys / Eleanor Singer 163

12. The Influence of Alternative Visual Designs on Respondents' Performance with Branching Instructions in Self-Administered Questionnaires / Cleo D. Redline, Don A. Dillman 179

III. Nonresponse in Diverse Types of Surveys

13. Evaluating Nonresponse Error in Mail Surveys / Danna L. Moore, John Tarnai 197

14. Understanding Unit and Item Nonresponse In Business Surveys / Diane K. Willimack, Elizabeth Nichols, Seymour Sudman 213

15. Nonresponse in Web Surveys / Vasja Vehovar, Zenel Batagelj, Katja Lozar Manfreda, Metka Zaletel 229

16. Nonresponse in Exit Polls: A Comprehensive Analysis / Daniel M. Merkle, Murray Edelman 243

17. Nonresponse in the Second Wave of Longitudinal Household Surveys / James M. Lepkowski, Mick P. Couper 259

IV. Statistical Inference Accounting for Nonresponse

18. Weighting Nonresponse Adjustments Based on Auxiliary Information / Jelke G. Bethlehem 275

19. Poststratification and Weighting Adjustments / Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin 289

20. Replication Methods for Variance Estimation in Complex Surveys with Imputed Data / Jun Shao 303

21. Variance Estimation from Survey Data under Single Imputation / Hyunshik Lee, Eric Rancourt, Carl E. Sarndal 315

22. Large-Scale Imputation for Complex Surveys / David A. Marker, David R. Judkins, Marianne Winglee 329

23. A Congenial Overview and Investigation of Multiple Imputation Inferences under Uncongeniality / Xiao-Li Meng 343

24. Multivariate Imputation of Coarsened Survey Data on Household Wealth / Steven G. Heeringa, Roderick J. A. Little, Trivellore E. Raghunathan 357

25. Modeling Nonignorable Attrition and Measurement Error in Panel Surveys: An Application to Travel Demand Modeling / David Brownstone, Thomas F. Golob, Camilla Kazimi 373

26. Using Matched Substitutes to Adjust for Nonignorable Nonresponse through Multiple Imputations / Donald B. Rubin, Elaine Zanutto 389

27. Using Administrative Records to Impute for Nonresponse / Elaine Zanutto, Alan Zaslavsky 403

28. Imputation for Wave Nonresponse: Existing Methods and a Time Series Approach / Danny Pfeffermann, Gad Nathan 417

29. Diagnostics for the Practical Effects of Nonresponse Adjustment Methods / John L. Eltinge 431.

Notes:

"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-496) and index.

ISBN:

0471396273

OCLC:

47658912