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On the fade-away of an initial bias in longitudinal surveys

Rendtel, Ulrich; Alho, Juha M. - 2022

demography is used to show that an initial bias can "fade-away" in later panel waves, if the transition laws in the observed … sample and the population are identical. Panel attrition is incorporated into the Markovian framework. Extensions to Markov … empirical data from a German Labour Market Panel to demonstrate the extend and speed of the fade-away effect. The implications …

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Personality as a Predictor of Unit Nonresponse in Panel Data : An Analysis of an Internet-Based Survey

Cheng, Albert - 2016

Unit nonresponse or attrition in panel data sets is often a source of nonrandom measurement error. Why certain … of unit nonresponse in an internet panel, a relatively new, and hence understudied, approach to gathering longitudinal …, affect the likelihood of unit nonresponse. Using data from an internet panel that includes self-reported measures of …

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Difficulty to Reach Respondents and Nonresponse Bias : Evidence from Large Government Surveys

Heffetz, Ori - 2016

How high is unemployment? How low is labor force participation? Is obesity more prevalent among men? How large are household expenditures? We study the sources of the relevant official statistics—the Current Population Survey (CPS), the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and...

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Selection in surveys

Dutz, Deniz; Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Lacouture, Santiago; … - 2021

We evaluate how nonresponse affects conclusions drawn from survey data and consider how researchers can reliably test and correct for nonresponse bias. To do so, we examine a survey on labor market conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic that used randomly assigned financial incentives to...

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