Non-response biases in surveys of schoolchildren: The case of the English Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) samples

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

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 915-938

  Micklewright, John ^a   Schnepf, Sylke V ^b   Skinner, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(PISA); Bias; Data linkage; Non response; Programme for International Student Assessment; School survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867141914     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01036.x     Document Type: Article

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