A Case Study of Nonresponse Bias Analysis in Educational Assessment Surveys

Nonresponse bias is a widely prevalent problem for data on education. We develop ten-step exemplar to guide nonresponse analysis (NRBA) in cross-sectional studies and apply these steps the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010–2011. A key step construction indices based proxy pattern-mixture models survey variables interest. novel feature characterize strength evidence about contained indices, relationship between characteristics adjustment variables. Our NRBA improves existing methods by incorporating both missing at random not mechanisms, all analyses can be done straightforwardly with standard statistical software.