Web surveys are frequently based on samples drawn from panels with large amounts of nonresponse or haphazard selection. The availability of large-scale consumer and voter databases provides large amounts of auxilliary information for both panelists and population members. Sample matching, where a conventional random sample is selected from a population frame and the closest matching respondent ...

Abstract Respondent burden has important implications for survey outcomes, including response rates and attrition in panel surveys. Despite this, respondent remains an understudied topic the field of methodology, with few researchers systematically measuring objective subjective factors surveys used to produce official statistics. This research was designed assess impact proxy measures burden, ...

The main objective of this paper is to compare and reconcile the cross-sectional and the panel estimates of union wage effects. It uses Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID) data for a period of 6 years (1979-1984). Unlike what Freeman (1984) predicted (i.e., panel union wage estimates would be smaller than pure cross-sectional estimates due to the cumulative nature of the errors in reporting ...

This paper identifies the basic methodological issues involved in the sampling design of the third wave of Taiwan Educational Panel Survey (TEPS). Central to the design are three design questions (1) sampling of schools, (2) the sampling of panel members from the second wave of junior high students for two more waves of follow-up, and (3) sampling of classes within school. A systematic discussi...

UNLABELLED Current radiation protection recommendations do not provide clear guidelines or advice on pregnancy screening strategies for diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures. Previous studies have reported on variations in current practice for pregnancy screening before diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures. The development of consensus statements aims to provide a consistent approach and ass...

OBJECTIVE Delphi technique is a structured process commonly used to developed healthcare quality indicators, but there is a little recommendation for researchers who wish to use it. This study aimed 1) to describe reporting of the Delphi method to develop quality indicators, 2) to discuss specific methodological skills for quality indicators selection 3) to give guidance about this practice. ...

This study investigates the extent to which current geographical variations in mortality are influenced by patterns of migration since birth. It is based on a longitudinal study of migrants which consists of a representative sample of 10264 British residents born after 1890 and enumerated as part of the British Household Panel Study in 1991. Between 1991 and 1996, 527 of the study members died ...

This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a panel household survey rich in subjective variables, the analysis suggests that for a given total stock of inter-temporal consumption, agents are more satisfied with an increasing time-profile of consumption: they seem t...

Background. Invasive differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is relatively frequent, yet there is a paucity of specific guidelines devoted to its management. The Endocrine Committee of the American Head and Neck Society (AHNS) convened a panel to provide clinical consensus statements based on review of the literature, synthesized with the expert opinion of the group. Methods. An expert panel, selec...