Panel Attrition: Separating Stayers, Fast Attriters, Gradual Attriters, and Lurkers

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 699-723

  Lugtig, Peter ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attrition; latent class analysis; LISS; nonresponse error; panel surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907565498     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124113520305     Document Type: Article

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