Statistical Criteria to Manage Non-respondents’ Intensive Follow Up in Surveys Repeated along Time

Roberto Gismondi and Andrea Carone ()
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Andrea Carone: Italian National Institute of Statistics

Rivista di statistica ufficiale, 2008, vol. 10, issue 1, 5-29

Abstract: When carrying out statistical surveys, detecting non-respondent units to undergo Intensive Follow Up (IFU) to disseminate quality estimates represents an important though under estimated aspect that is often not deeply studied. We suggest to use a generalised score function to quantify the risk related to the failed use of all the sample units for calculations together with techniques aiming at detecting IFU units through significance tests or methods – either parametric or not – based on acceptance thresholds. We also present an exercise related to a panel of industrial enterprises.

Keywords: Bias ratio; Pseudo bias; Response burden; Score function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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