Effects On Survey Estimates From Reducing Nonresponse
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Using a variety of procedures designed to maximize response rates, survey organizations expend sometimes extraordinary efforts to minimize the potential for nonresponse bias. Given that nonresponse bias is a function of both the nonresponse rate and the difference between respondents and nonrespondents, maximizing response rates is a sensible approach to minimizing the potential for bias contributed by less than perfect survey participation rates.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002