Health disparities exist among sexual minority older adults. Yet, health and aging surveys rarely include sexual orientation measures and when they do, they often exclude older adults from being asked about sexual orientation. This is the first population-based study to assess item nonresponse to sexual orientation measures by age and change over time. We compare response rates and examine time...

OBJECTIVES We examined potential nonresponse bias in a large-scale, population-based, random-digit-dialed telephone survey in California and its association with the response rate. METHODS We used California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data and US Census data and linked the two data sets at the census tract level. We compared a broad range of neighborhood characteristics of respondents and...

Fifty-nine methodological studies were designed to estimate the magnitude of nonresponse bias in statistics of interest. These studies use a variety of designs: sampling frames with rich variables, data from administrative records matched to sample case, use of screeninginterview data to describe nonrespondents to main interviews, followup of nonrespondents to initial phases of field effort, an...

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...

OBJECTIVE Early nonresponse to antipsychotics appears to predict subsequent nonresponse to treatment when assessed in randomized controlled trials of predominately acute inpatients treated for schizophrenia. This study assessed the predictive accuracy of early nonresponse to treatment and its clinical, functional, and economic ramifications in the naturalistic treatment of predominately chronic...

This study examines the patterns and determinants of chronic low back pain over a three-year period among older adults in Japan. We tested our model based on a sociomedical perspective, using a two-wave national probability sample survey of persons aged 60 and older (N = 2,200) conducted in 1987 and 1990 in Japan. At baseline, the prevalence of chronic low back pain was 18 percent. Among those ...

The paper deals with the problem of solving nonresponse in a realized census. purpose is to modify method poststratification using weights compensate for nonresponse, which known sample surveys, its application censuses. suggested approach offers more accurate estimates because compensation and possibility formulate broader conclusions based on census data. advised all surveys costs realization...

Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey (CPS) is about 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March surveys. Half of CPS earnings records rely on “proxy” respondents, among whom nonresponse is particularly high. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on non-match (and some imperfectly matched) imputation attributes. If ...