Open AccessSample attrition in the RLMS , 2001–10
Author(s) -
Gerry Christopher J.,
Papadopoulos Georgios
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
economics of transition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-0351
pISSN - 0967-0750
DOI - 10.1111/ecot.12063
Subject(s) - attrition , sample (material) , economics , survey data collection , econometrics , public economics , statistics , mathematics , medicine , chemistry , dentistry , chromatography
The data of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) – Higher School of Economics represents one of the few nationally representative sources of household and individual data for Russia. These data have been collected since 1992 and in recent years, thanks to more secure financial and logistical support, have become a resource increasingly drawn upon by scholars and students for national and cross‐national studies. In this paper, we examine the extent of non‐random attrition in the RLMS and discuss the circumstances under which this might give rise to biases in econometric analysis. We illustrate this with an example drawn from the health sphere.