General Data Quality Assessment of the CLHLS

Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue , 2008, Pages 39-60

  Gu, Danan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy of imputation; alpha coefficient; attrition; Bias; Convergent Cronbach s; Data assessment; Discriminant validity; Don t know answer; Factual question; Full proxy response; Homogeneity; Imputation; Inconsistent responses; Internal consistency; Item nonresponse; Item total; Item total correlations; Knowledgeable proxy; Minimum reliability coefficient; Missing completely at random; Missing item; Missing value; Multiple imputation; Multiple item scale; Next of kin; Nonresponse; Nonresponse rate; Objective question; Proxy; Proxy reporter; Proxy response; Proxy use; Reliability; Significant other; Sources of error; Unit nonresponse; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85145029707     PISSN: 18772560     EISSN: 22151990     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6752-5_3     Document Type: Chapter

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