Nonresponse in Household Interview Surveys - Hardcover

Groves, Robert M.; Couper, Mick P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471182451 ISBN 13: 9780471182450

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 1998

Synopsis

A 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.

About this title

From the Publisher

The failure to sample people is a major threat to the statistical inference of surveys. Survey designers spend much effort creating surveys that will reduce the non-response rate. This book is the result of an eight year research program that collected unprecedented data sets on respondents and nonrespondents by matching these groups to the 1990 US census records.

About the Author

ROBERT M. GROVES, PhD, is Professor and Senior Research Scientistat the University of Michigan. He is the author of Survey Errorsand Survey Costs and Chief Editor of Telephone Survey Methodology,both available from Wiley.

MICK P. COUPER, PhD, is Assistant Research Scientist in the SurveyResearch Center at the University of Michigan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0471182451
• ISBN 13: 9780471182450
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344