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Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society Social Statistics Section.
Exploring Survey Non-response in Great Britain: the 2001 Census-linked
Study of Survey Non-response.
Speaker: Roeland Beerten (ONS)
Discussant: Peter Lynn (ISER, University of Colchester)
Date: Tuesday 30 March 2004
Time: 5.00 p.m. (tea from 4.30 p.m.)
Place: RSS, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
Admission: The meeting is open to all and free of charge
Synopsis:
Following the last three censuses in Britain, survey nonresponse on major
government household surveys has been investigated by linking addresses
sampled for surveys taking place around the time of the Census to
individual census records for the same addresses.
A more ambitious study was carried out in connection with the 2001 Census.
The 2001 study builds on our work using data from the last three British
censuses and on the work Groves and Couper carried out following the 1990
US decennial census. The study involves 12 surveys which vary significantly
in design and response rates. Key features of the study include:
• More extensive use of auxiliary area data than in 1991,
• Analysis of information about interviewers’ call details and response
outcomes,
• Examination of interviewer recorded data about the selected unit,
interaction with respondents etc. when making contact,
• Incorporation of a survey of interviewers to provide data on interviewer
characteristics and attitudes to be linked to the dataset,
• Multilevel modelling to separate interviewer, household and area level
effects.
The paper will present an overview of the study and the methods ONS is
using to investigate the relative contribution of different factors
affecting non-response. We will describe the data sources, the data
linking process, the analysis strategy and present the first results.
For more information please contact:
Keith Dugmore
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