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The Social Statistics Section of the Royal Statistical Society are holding an afternoon meeting
on Tuesday 14th December 1999 from 2pm-5:30pm
at the RSS, 12 Errol Street, London EC1 (Barbican and Moorgate are the nearest underground stations).
UNDERSTANDING HOUSEHOLD SURVEY NON-RESPONSE
This meeting aims to provide a broad discussion of issues surrounding non-response on general population interview surveys. It should be of particular interest to survey commissioners, survey researchers and survey analysts. The first paper will describe the barriers to making meaningful response rate comparisons and will propose the introduction of standardised systems for recording the outcomes of attempts to achieve an interview and for the calculation and presentation of response rates. The other papers will discuss the impacts on response rates and on non-response bias of a number of key aspects of the interviewers' and survey organisation's field strategy, including repeated call-backs, reissuing, doorstep techniques, and interviewer attitudes and behaviour. The four presentation will be:
ARE RESPONSE RATES MEANINGFUL? IMPROVING THE WAY WE MEASURE SURVEY OUTCOMES. Johanna Laiho, Peter Lynn (National Centre for Social research), Jean Martin and Roeland Beerten (Office for National Statistics).
THE EFFECT OF INTERVIEWER CHARACTERISTICS ON SURVEY RESPONSE RATES. Roeland Beerten and Jean Martin (Office for National Statistics)
THE EFFECTS OF REISSUING AND OTHER EXTENDED INTERVIEWER EFFORTS ON NON_RESPONSE BIAS. Peter Lynn, Paul Clarke (National Centre for Social Research), Jean Martin (Office for National Statistics), Patrick Sturgis (London School of Economics and Political Science)
THE EFFECT OF INTERVIEWER BEHAVIOUR ON RESPONSE RATES AND DATA QUALITY Ann Carton and Geert Loosveldt (Catholic University of Leuven)
THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THE MEETING
TEA WILL BE SERVED FROM 1:30pm
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