Recently, various indicators have been proposed as indirect measures of non-response error in surveys. They employ auxiliary variables, external to the survey, to detect non-representative or unbalanced response. A class of designs known as adaptive survey designs maximizes these indicators by applying different treatments to different subgroups. The natural question is whether the decrease in… Continue reading Does more balanced survey response imply less non-response bias?
Keyword: Post-stratification
Survey Nonresponse Adjustments for Estimates of Means
Theoretical properties of nonresponse adjustments based on adjustment cells are studied, for estimates of means for the whole population and in subclasses that cut across adjustment cells. Three forms of adjustment are considered: weighting by the inverse response rate within cells, post-stratification on known population cell counts, and mean imputation within adjustment cells. Two dimensions… Continue reading Survey Nonresponse Adjustments for Estimates of Means