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Survey response and survey characteristics: microlevel evidence from the European Community Household Panel
Author(s) -
Nicoletti Cheti,
Peracchi Franco
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series a (statistics in society)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-985X
pISSN - 0964-1998
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-985x.2005.00369.x
Subject(s) - respondent , comparability , european union , demographic economics , panel data , econometrics , interview , survey data collection , propensity score matching , european social survey , population , psychology , economics , demography , statistics , political science , sociology , politics , mathematics , combinatorics , law , economic policy
Summary. The paper presents microlevel evidence on the role of the sociodemographic characteristics of a population and the characteristics of the data collection process as predictors of survey response. Our evidence is based on the public use files of the European Community Household Panel, a longitudinal household survey covering the countries of the European Union, whose attractive feature is the high level of comparability across countries and over time. We model the response process as the outcome of two sequential events: contact between the interviewer and an eligible interviewee, and co‐operation by the interviewee. Our model allows for dependence between the ease of contact and the propensity to co‐operate, taking into account the censoring problem caused by the fact that we observe whether a person is a respondent only if she has been contacted.