Attrition in the Swiss Household Panel: Are Vulnerable Groups more Affected than Others?

Life Course Research and Social Policies

Volumn 3, Issue , 2016, Pages 223-244

  Rothenbühler, Martina ^a,b   Voorpostel, Marieke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS)   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Family related Problems; Longitudinal Respondents; Missing Contact Information; Swiss Household Panel (SHP); Unconditional Incentives

Indexed keywords

EID: 85056870404     PISSN: 22117776     EISSN: 22117784     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24157-9_10     Document Type: Chapter

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