Open AccessESTIMATING NON-RESPONSE BIAS IN A SURVEY ON ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION: COMPARISON OF RESPONSE WAVES
Author(s) -
V. M. H. C. J. Lahaut
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
alcohol and alcoholism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.747
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1464-3502
pISSN - 0735-0414
DOI - 10.1093/alcalc/agg044
Subject(s) - representativeness heuristic , alcohol consumption , proxy (statistics) , non response bias , response bias , psychology , alcohol , consumption (sociology) , demography , statistics , social psychology , mathematics , social science , biochemistry , chemistry , sociology
According to 'the continuum of resistance model' late respondents can be used as a proxy for non-respondents in estimating non-response bias. In the present study, the validity of this model was explored and tested in three surveys on alcohol consumption.
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