Strauss, John; Thomas, Duncan; Witoelar, Firman; … - eSocialSciences - 2010
Attrition is the Achilles heel of longitudinal surveys. Drawing on our experience in the Indonesia Family Life Survey …, we describe survey design and field strategies that contributed to minimizing attrition over four waves of the survey …. Attrition, and types of attrition, are related in complex ways to a broad array of characteristics measured at baseline. Our …