Open AccessLate response and item nonresponse in the Finbalt Health Monitor Survey
Author(s) -
Ville Helasoja,
Ritva Prättälä,
Liudmila Dregval,
Iveta Pudule,
Anu Kasmel
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
european journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1464-360X
pISSN - 1101-1262
DOI - 10.1093/eurpub/12.2.117
Subject(s) - respondent , non response bias , residence , socioeconomic status , missing data , demography , medicine , environmental health , response bias , psychology , geography , statistics , social psychology , population , political science , mathematics , pathology , sociology , law
The Finbalt Health Monitor is a collaborative system for monitoring the health-related behaviour, practices and lifestyles in Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania. This system is based on nationally representative samples and self-administered mailed questionnaires. In comparing the results of national surveys, the awareness of the direction and socioeconomic patterning of the response bias is essential.