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Centre for Applied Social Surveys Short Course: Handling Non-
Response
Supported by the ESRC
17-19 May 2000, University of Southampton
Presented by Peter Lynn and Chris Skinner
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Course Objectives
1. To provide participants with an understanding of the types and
sources of non-response in social surveys and their consequences
for survey data analysis
2. To familiarise participants with research on sources and
patterns of non-response and on the impact of alternative strategies
to reduce non-response and/or to compensate for non-response.
3. To instruct participants in methods for reducing non-response at
the data collection stage.
4. To instruct participants in statistical methods for compensating
for the effects of non-response at the data analysis stage.
Course Content
This course will include the following topics:
Types of non-response
Factors which affect non-response
Methods for reducing non-response
Weighting to compensate for unit non-response
Imputation for item non-response
Modelling approaches to non-response
The course will include workshop sessions so that participants
can work through practical exercises.
Target Audience
The course is aimed at both researchers who design surveys and
wish to reduce non-response and at researchers who analyse
survey data and wish to compensate for the effects of non-
response. Participants may be researchers in the social sciences
or may work on survey applications in government or the private
sector. The course is suitable for statisticians or for social
scientists who have a basic familiarity with statistical ideas of
estimation in surveys.
Course Materials
Participants will receive copies of the overhead transparencies,
written notes and a reading list.
The Instructors
Peter Lynn is Director of the Survey Methods Centre at the
National Centre for Social Research. He specialises in sample
design for complex surveys and his research interests cover all
aspects of survey methodology including non-response, total
survey error and methodology of self-completion surveys.
Chris Skinner is Professor of Social Statistics at the University of
Southampton and Deputy Director of CASS. He has research
interests in the design and analysis of sample surveys including
weighting and imputation for non-response.
Fee
350 Pounds Sterling (includes course materials, lunches and
morning and afternoon tea). Full-time research students, UK
academic staff or ESRC-funded researchers are eligible for an
ESRC bursary which reduces the fee to 75 pounds Sterling.
For a registration form and further details, please contact
The CASS Secretary
Department of Social Statistics
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 3048
Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3846
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
A registration form is also available on
http://www.socstats.soton.ac.uk/cass
CASS is an ESRC Resource Centre hosted by the National Centre
for Social Research and the University of Southampton with the
University of Surrey.
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