Questions tagged [non-response]
Nonresponse (spelled as a single word) is the term used in survey literature to describe missing data problems; encompasses the issues of unit nonresponse, item nonresponse, and nonresponse biases
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Combining Survey Weights
I have an annual survey that is somewhat complex in design. Sample frames are pulled quarterly and overlap. Each quarter's sample is removed from the subsequent quarter's frame. Samples are stratified ...
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Hypothesis testing on total surveys
How should one think about hypothesis-testing ratio scale variables that do not have a distribution resembling a normal/t-distribution, when the data comes from a total survey?
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I have ...
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Longitudinal sample with varying levels of non-response
I'm using answers to a specific question from the General Social Survey ("do you feel rushed"?) to compare statistics over multiple years.
The answers are "Always" "Sometimes&...
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Combining multiple imputation and survey non-response adjustments (IPW)
Imagine the following scenario:
A population cohort (assume no or equal sampling weights) of say 10000 people had various demographics and health factors measured at baseline $X_{base}$(with some ...
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How to top-up a panel survey to also get population estimates
I'm running two sequential surveys on the same population, and I have a question about the proper sampling methodology in the second round of a panel that is also meant to get population estimates. I ...
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Non-Response Rate: Outlier data, does it count?
I'm currently doing an undergraduate stats module and we're being asked to calculate the response rate and many people are conflicted by whether or not the excluded outlier data would constitute as a ...
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Nonresponse weight adjustments in multi-stage household surveys
I have a question about nonresponse weighting in complex sample surveys in multi-stage designs, like say, The US National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R), the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), ...
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Using a sample of paid survey respondents to bias correct lower response rate among larger non-paid sample
I'm running a tracker survey on a website that has a low response rate of about 2%. The survey is not incentivized but the website traffic is large enough in volume I can always meet my sample target ...
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Is overfitting an issue if all I care about is training error
I am working on a project where we perform non-response adjustment by weighting survey respondents by their probability of response. In order to do this, we need to estimate each respondents ...
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Adjusting for non-response bias in a survey
Say I have a target population of 10,000 for a survey, and only 2,000 respond, because they likely feel strongly about the survey topic (either happy or angry). I have clear, abundant non-response ...
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Correcting for known imputation bias
I have a survey sample which includes income values by type of income for a significant number of high-income households. Some of the income data is measured, i.e. present in the responses of the ...
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How does non-response bias affect the Confidence Interval
I asked earlier what is the idea behind putting up Table 3.
I have a follow up question on how non-response bias identified can justify the different sizes of Confidence Interval(CI) in Figure 3. My ...
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p-value of non-response
I came across this in a research article, and I wondered what the p-value is showing here and what does the sentence even mean? Can someone explain what is the null hypothesis relating to the p-value?
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Clustering with Likert items and N/A option
I am currently evaluating the results of a 72 question survey with response levels from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree". I would like to cluster the questions by response patterns using R (I'm ...
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Sample Size when the sampling frame is small
I am sure this question has been answered, and may be obvious to those familiar with online surveys. But I am struggling with it.
I am surveying a specific population (local leaders in a specific ...
