Factors Affecting Response to Mail Questionnaire : Research Topics, Questionnaire Length, and Non-response Bias
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Investigating non-response bias in mail surveys.
Losses in follow-up that are biased with respect to outcome invalidate the results. There are many ways of dealing with non-response in follow-up studies. Three separate methods were used to investigate a potential bias in a mail survey of 2471 disabled people. At a response rate of 84%, the non-respondents were significantly different from the respondents with respect to the outcome, return to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0917-5040
DOI: 10.2188/jea.5.81