Health-related non-response in the British Household Panel Survey and European Community Household Panel: Using inverse-probability-weighted estimators in non-linear models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 543-569

  Jones, Andrew M ^a   Koolman, Xander ^b   Rice, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attrition; British Household Panel Survey; European Community Household Panel; Inverse probability weighting; Non participation; Non response; Selection on observables; Self assessed health

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745049457     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00399.x     Document Type: Review

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