Are we keeping the people who used to stay? Changes in correlates of panel survey attrition over time

Social Science Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1037-1050

  Olson, Kristen ^a   Witt, Lindsey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonresponse bias; Panel attrition; Survey nonresponse

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957482453     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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