Unit Nonresponse and Weighting Adjustments: A Critical Review

Weighting Adjustments for Panel Nonresponse

1 Summary Although similar to weighting for unit nonresponse in cross-sectional surveys, adjustment for panel non-response needs to incorporate information about nonrespondents collected in the early waves of the panel. We review different weighting adjustments for panel nonresponse and discuss methods for incorporating complex survey design variables into the weighting adjustments. We propose ...

Multiple Imputation for Unit-Nonresponse versus Weighting including a comparison with a Nonresponse Follow-Up Study

The results of a national fear of crime survey are compared with results following the use of different nonresponse correction procedures. We compared naive estimates, weighted estimates, estimates after a thorough nonresponse follow-up and estimates after multiple imputation. A strong similarity between the MI and the follow-up-estimates was found. This suggests, that if the assumptions of MAR...

On the Formation of Weighting Adjustment Cells for Unit Nonresponse

1. Introduction Unit nonresponse occurs when entire interviews are missing due to noncontact of a sampled individual or refusal to answer the questionnaire. Weighting is a standard method of unit nonresponse adjustment and is a natural extension of weighting for unequal probabilities of selection. However, unlike the sample weight, the nonresponse rate is usually unknown and must be estimated. ...

The Survey of Income and Program Participation Weighting Adjustments for Panel Nonresponse in the Sipp

Providing double protection for unit nonresponse with a nonlinear calibration-weighting routine

Given a randomly drawn sample, calibration weighting can provide double protection against the selection bias resulting from unit nonresponse. This means that if either an assumed linear prediction model or an implied unit selection model holds, the resulting estimator will be asymptotically unbiased in some sense. The functional form of the selection model when using linear calibration adjustm...