An examination of within-person variation in response propensity over the data collection field period

Journal of Official Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-51

  Olson, Kristen ^a   Groves, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic response propensities; Nonresponse; Nonresponse bias; Responsive design; Survival models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859399825     PISSN: 0282423X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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