1. International Nonresponse Trends across Countries and Years: An analysis of 36 years of Labour Force Survey data
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de Leeuw, E.D., Hox, J.J.C.M., Luiten, Annemieke, Methodology and statistics for the behavioural and social sciences, and Leerstoel Heijden
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Labour Force Survey ,Noncontact ,Refusals ,amtliche Statistik ,Mehrebenenanalyse ,Antwortverhalten ,internationaler Vergleich ,labor statistics ,0502 economics and business ,Arbeitsstatistik ,050602 political science & public administration ,Privathaushalt ,response behavior ,survey ,050207 economics ,Datengewinnung ,Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ,Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften ,Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ,historische Entwicklung ,05 social sciences ,longitudinal study ,international comparison ,Befragung ,historical development ,0506 political science ,Längsschnittuntersuchung ,data capture ,multi-level analysis ,Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods ,official statistics ,ddc:300 ,private household - Abstract
Household survey nonresponse is a matter of concern in many countries. In one of the first international trend analyses, de Leeuw and de Heer (2002) found that response rates declined over the years, and that countries differed in response rates and nonresponse trends. Their analyses cover longitudinal data on the Labour Force Survey from National Statistical Institutes for the period 1980 to 1997. We added a new data set, covering the period 1998 -2015, and analysed nonresponse data over time and countries. In these analyses we differentiated between voluntary and mandatory surveys. The trends visible in de Leeuw and de Heer (2002) continue with possibly a small deceleration in refusal rates.
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- 2018