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Public Opinion Quarterly Advance Access published online on May 7, 2008
Public Opinion Quarterly, doi:10.1093/poq/nfn011
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

The Impact of Nonresponse Rates on Nonresponse Bias

A Meta-Analysis

Robert M. Groves and Emilia Peytcheva

Address correspondence to Robert M. Groves; e-mail: bgroves{at}isr.umich.edu.

Fifty-nine methodological studies were designed to estimate the magnitude of nonresponse bias in statistics of interest. These studies use a variety of designs: sampling frames with rich variables, data from administrative records matched to sample case, use of screening-interview data to describe nonrespondents to main interviews, followup of nonrespondents to initial phases of field effort, and measures of behavior intentions to respond to a survey. This permits exploration of which circumstances produce a relationship between nonresponse rates and nonresponse bias and which, do not. The predictors are design features of the surveys, characteristics of the sample, and attributes of the survey statistics computed in the surveys.

ROBERT M. GROVES is with University of Michigan, 426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, USA.

EMILIA PEYTCHEVA is with Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Appreciation for research support from the US National Science Foundation grant SES-0207435.


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