Assessing the Representativeness of the 1992 British Crime Survey:                     The Impact of Sampling Error and Response Biases | Zendy

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Assessing the Representativeness of the 1992 British Crime Survey: The Impact of Sampling Error and Response Biases

Author(s) -

Elliott C.,

Ellingworth D.

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

sociological research online

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.593

H-Index - 49

ISSN - 1360-7804

DOI - 10.5153/sro.122

Subject(s) - representativeness heuristic , explanatory power , non response bias , survey data collection , survey methodology , census , survey sampling , sample (material) , econometrics , sampling (signal processing) , statistics , survey research , geography , sociology , demography , economics , socioeconomics , mathematics , computer science , computer vision , population , philosophy , chemistry , epistemology , chromatography , filter (signal processing)

The paper highlights the importance of the representativeness of survey samples,using the 1992 British Crime Survey as an example. The success with whichdifferent demographic characteristics are represented in the survey sample isaddressed by comparison to the 1991 Census Small Area Statistics for England andWales. In addition, biases associated with different response rates in differentareas are addressed, and given the nature of the survey, the impact of an area'scrime rate on its response rate is also analysed. Finally, regression modellingis used to identify whether the same variables have explanatory power inexplaining differences in crime rate and response rate.

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