Past approaches to correcting for unit nonresponse in sample surveys by re-weighting the data assume that the problem is ignorable within arbitrary subgroups of the population. Theory and evidence suggest that this assumption is unlikely to hold, and that household characteristics such as income systematically affect survey compliance. The authors show that this leaves a bias in the re-weighted data and they propose a method of correcting for this...
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2005/09/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS3711
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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An econometric method of correcting for unit nonresponse bias in surveys
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law of large number